MACLOSKIE I MAGNOLIACE^E. 



419 



Peduncle solitary, i -flowered, as long as the leaves. Berries small, 

 oblong-ovoid. 



(Peru in woods) ; by Hatcher in the Cordilleras of S. Patagon., in flower 

 Feb. 17, 1897. "Bush, 6090 cm., white." In Hatcher's specimens 

 I cannot find the anther valves developed ; they are only indicated by a 

 specialization of cells at the place of origin. (Macl.) 



Family 41. MAGNOLIACE.E. 



Trees or shrubs with alternate leaves and large flowers ; the sepals and 

 petals in cycles. Stamens numerous, hypogynous. Carpels many, not 

 united, becoming dry or fleshy mericarps. Embryo minute, in non- 

 ruminate endosperm. 



Species 70, chiefly in Himalaya, E. Asia, and E. part of N. Amer. 



The subfamily Illiciece which contains Drimys, has the flowers often 

 polygamous, not 3-merous, the carpels i -seriate or solitary, and the 

 leaves exstipulate, finely dotted. 



DRIMYS Forst. Winter' s-bark. 



Carpels crowded, baccate, many-seeded. Staminal filaments thickened 

 upwards, bearing distinct anther-cells. 



A small genus, with species in Australia, FIG- 71- 



New Zealand, New Guinea, Borneo, Mex- 

 ico, Venezuela, and Chili, to Fuegia. 



D. WINTERI Forst. 



Tree, with evergreen leaves ; leaves 7-10 



4 cm. long, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 



glaucous beneath. Peduncles subsimple, 



nggregate, or very short, ending in long 



pedicels. (Fig. 71.) 



E. and W. Magellan, in woods near 

 Punta Arenas and westwards. Fuegia, 

 about Lapataia (not at Ushuaia) ; abound- 

 ing in the rainwoods ; in Navarino and 

 Staaten I. Native name, " Ouchkouta," 

 for the wood ; " Liouch," for the leaves. Its 



Drimys winten, winter's-bark. 

 ' reduced ; also fruit - 



