308 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I BOTANY. 



I. C. MARGINATA Lam. 



Knotted and leafless at the base. Leaves coriaceous, narrow-oval, 

 thick at margin and midrib, subcuspidate. Flowers fragrant. Filaments 

 filiform, anthers large, reflexed and extrorsely reversed. Berry dark 

 purple. 



Patagon. ; Magellan to W. Magellan ; Fuegia, Beagle Ch. to Cape 

 Horn; Staaten I., Falklands; N. Zeal. 



In Fuegia, "growing prostrate and against the trunks of beech trees" ; 

 in N. Zeal., "on mosses by woods." "Seems a transition towards Phi- 

 lesia, which the distribution favors." 



2. C. POLYPHYLLA Hook. 



Tall ; much branching. Leaves abundant, oblanceolate or subovate, 

 mucronulate, 5-y-nerved, with faint cross veins, glaucous underneath. 

 Peduncles about as long as the leaves, below their middle articulated and 

 i-bracted. Petals white, acute, orange-spotted. Anthers incumbent. 



S. Chili, at Cape Tres Montes; called "Asaju" ; growing on trunks of 

 trees, about 30 cm. long ; remarkable for its beautiful flowers. 



3. C. RADICANS Ruiz. & Pav. 



Suffruticose, glabrous, several meters high. Stem terete, slender, 

 flexuous, creeping along trunks of trees, jointed, sheathing and rooting 

 at the joints, rootlets long, simple. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, oblique, 

 acuminate, 9~i3-nerved on both sides, 25 mm. long. Peduncles 2-4- 

 flowered ; flowers variegated, white to yellow, with red points and lines. 

 Berry red. 



(Chili); W. Patagon. (Dusen.) 



6. PHILESIA Comm. 



Glabrous, branching shrub, with nearly sessile, subdistichous, oblong, 

 coriaceous, revolute-edged, i -nerved, reticulate leaves ; and large, showy, 

 pink flowers, \ or few in the upper axils or terminal ; with few small 

 imbricating bracts ; inner perianth-leaves obovate-oblong, twice as long 

 as the outer. Anthers extrorse. Ovary i -celled, with 3 parietal pla- 

 centce. Fruit a subglobose berry, with many seeds. 



Only species : 



