420 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I BOTANY. 



English name is after Capt. Winter, who accompanied Sir Francis Drake 

 in his circumnavigation of the globe, 1577-80. Its bark was used as 

 medicine against scurvy, and also as a condiment. A noble tree, with 

 smooth, gray bark, leaves like laurel-leaves, and masses of rather large, 

 white flowers in cymes terminating the branches. 



DRIMYS WINTERI CHILENSIS (DC.). 



Leaves oblong-obovate, glaucous underneath. 

 (Chili) ; S. Patagon., near Ultima Esperanza. 



D. WINTERI MAGELLANICA Eichl. 



Leaves shorter and broader, half as broad as long. 

 Magellan. 



D. WINTERI MORENONIS O. Ktze. 



Leaves very many, oblanceolate. Peduncles mostly i -flowered. 

 Patagonia. 



Family 42. MONIMIACE^:. 



Trees or ^shrubs with exstipulate, mostly opposite pinnately nerved 

 leaves ; and mostly unisexual apetalous flowers, with several-seriate 

 sepals, the inner being partly petaloid. Stamens numerous, on a disk 

 adnate to the perianth-tube. Carpels usually several, in the perianth-cup, 

 or imbedded in a fleshy receptacle, each i -celled, i-ovuled. Fruiting 

 carpels generally drupaceous. Embryo small, in the axis of endosperm. 



Species 150, chiefly of the southern tropical and temperate lands ; most 

 of the genera in the Orient and Australia ; some in Africa, some in Brazil. 



LAURELIA Juss. 



Trees or shrubs with dioecious or monoecious flowers. Stamens 6-12, 

 filaments short with an oblong gland on each side, anther-cells distinct, 

 opening by uplifted valves. Female flowers with staminodes ; carpels long- 

 pilose, ending in plumose styles. Ovule erect. 



Species 2, one in New Zealand and the following : 



L. SEMPERVIRENS (Ruiz & Pav.) Tul. (L. aromatica Poir.) 

 Scented tree. Leaves obovate- to ovate-lanceolate, serrate, petiolate, 5-9 

 cm. long. Raceme silky-pubescent. Tepals of female flower distinct, 

 remote, the outer shorter. 



