334 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I BOTANY. 



minute bracts, and a semiannular, fleshy, hypogynous disk. Perianth-tube 

 cylindrical, cleft behind. Ovules many, becoming samaroid. 



Species 4, in Extratropical S. Amer. 



i. EMBOTHRIUM COCCINEUM Forst. 



Leaves subsessile, oval, obtuse, attenuate basewards, underneath opaque- 

 pale, and veinless ; veiny and shiny above. Pedicels shorter than the 

 calyx, and style as long, its apex fusiform. 



Handsome; fig. in Eng. & Prantl, iii, i, p. 123, C, & p. 149, A-D. 



S. and W. Patagon., by Lago Argentine, Cabo Negro, Magellan ; 

 Fuegia to Cape Horn; at Lago Nahuel-huapi. (Dusen.) 



E. COCCINEUM OBLANCEOLATUM O. Ktze. 



Leaves of floriferous branches oblanceolate, rather obtuse, broad above. 

 (Chili); Patagon. 



E. COCCINEUM OBOVATUM O. Ktze. 



Leaves short, obovate, 1-3 cm. broad, rather obtuse. 



(Chili); Patagon. 



2. E. LANCEOLATUM R. & P. 



Leaves short-petioled, oval-oblong, lanceolate, or narrower, obtuse, 

 mucronulate, attenuate basewards or both ways, discolored, opaque or 

 shining above, i -nerved, nearly veinless. Pedicels as long as the calyx, 

 25 mm. ; stigma oblong-fusiform, smooth. 



(S. Chili); Chubut, in shrubberies by the hills. 



2. TRICONDYLUS Kn. & Salisb. (Lomatia Br.). 



Trees or shrubs, with racemes of geminately pediceled flowers. Peri- 

 anth-tube oblique, cleft behind. Hypogynous glands 3. Stigma on a 

 lateral disk. Ovules many, becoming samaroid. 



Species 9, Chili, E. Austral, and Tasmania. 



I. T. DENTATUS (R. & P.) O. Ktze. 



Leaves oval, serrate-dentate, glabrous as the petals. Racemes lateral, 

 abbreviate. Calyx pilose. Ovary tomentose. 

 (Chili); Patagon. 



