MACLOSKIE I EUCRYPHIACE/E. 



577 



7. CRISTARIA PATAGONICA Phil. 



Erect to 10 cm. high. Densely stellate-pubescent. Lower leaves 5-, 

 upper 3-partite, orbicular in outline. Lobes 3~5-partite ; their partitions 

 trifid, ovate-acute. Lower peduncles paired, equalling the petioles; upper 

 crowded, exceeding the petioles. Calyx hirsute; half as long as the 

 petals. Upper leaves are less divided, with linear-oblong segments. 



N. Patagon., to foot of the Valdivian Andes. 



8. PAVONIA Linn. 



Herbs or shrubs, with stellate tomentum, or stiff bristles, or smooth. 

 Leaves often angular or lobed. Flowers solitary or cymose in the axils. 

 Bracteoles 5-many, separate or united. Staminal tube truncate or 5- 

 toothed. Carpels 10; but either the anti-sepalous or the antipetalous 

 may be suppressed ; when ripe falling away, indehiscent or partly dehis- 

 cing ; with 1-3 dorsal spines. 



Species 70, chiefly American. 



P. HASTATA Cav. 



Leaves lanceolate, hastate, dentate. Pedicels i -flowered. Bracteoles 

 5. Carpels unarmed. Flowers red, very venous. 

 (Brazil) ; N. Patagon., by Rio Negro. 



Family 67. EUCRYPHIACE.E. 



Flowers heterochlamydeous, choripetalous, hermaphrodite, 4-merous, 

 with numerous stamens on a hypogynous disk, and 5-18 carpels, connate 

 except the styles, and separating at maturity from the axis on which they 

 hang suspended until dehiscing. Sepals 4, united at top, and coming 

 away like a cap. Petals 4, convolute in the bud, white. Seeds several, 

 2-ranked in the carpels, pendent ; winged ; with endosperm. 



Evergreen trees, with opposite, entire or toothed or pinnate leaves, and 

 connate stipules. 



Species 5 in S. temperate regions, Chili, New South Wales, Tasmania. 



EUCRYPHIA Cav. 



The only genus. (E. cordifolia Cav., a Chilian species, fig. 68, in Eng. 

 and Prantl, iii, 6, p. 130.) 



