568 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I BOTANY. 



1. Petals valvate, lobed or incised. Fruit a leathery capsule. Trees. Crinodendron. 



2. Petals imbricate, lobed. Fruit a berry. Shrubs with opposite, serrate leaves. Aristotelia. 



i. CRINODENDRON Mol. 



Trees, with serrate leaves, and solitary, axillary, 5-merous flowers. Petals 

 5, exceeding the calyx, 3-lobed, cucullate. Androgynophore large, hairy, 

 lo-lobed. Ovary 3-5-celled. Capsule coriaceous, loculicidal. 



C. PATAGUA Mol. (Tricuspidaria dependens R. & P.) 

 Evergreen, with alternate, oval-lanceolate, serrate leaves, 6 cm. long, and 

 fleshy, rose-colored flowers on long peduncles. Capsule subrotund, silky- 

 pilose. 



Valdivia; Chiloe ; Magellan. (Fig. in Eng. & Prantl, iii, 6, p. 4, C-E). 

 Dye is obtained from its bark. Reiche states that in the Province of 

 Patagua it has white flowers, but that southward they^are pink. 



2. ARISTOTELIA L'Her. (Friesia DC.) 



Shrubs, mostly with subopposite leaves and flowers axillary or lateral, 

 racemose, usually polygamous. Sepals 4-5 ; petals as many, induplicate- 

 valvate, incised or rarely entire. Stamens many, along with the petals 

 inserted around an elevated, glandular torus. Berry indehiscent. 



Species 7, i in Chili and Patagon., i in Tasmania, 2 in Australia, 3 in 

 New Zealand. 



A. MAQUI L'Her. 



Berries as large as peas, dark purple, ultimately black, acid and edible 

 and yielding under preparation a medicinal wine. 



(Chili); Patagon., Chubut; by Lago Nahuel-huapi ; Carren-leofu. 



Family 66. MALVACEAE. Mallow Family. 



Mostly herbs or shrubs, with alternate, palmately-nerved leaves, often 

 having stellate hairs and deciduous stipules. Flowers regular, often large, 

 mostly perfect. Sepals 5 (3-4) united, often bracteolate, the lobes val- 

 vate. Petals 5, convolute. Stamens numerous, hypogynous, monadel- 

 phous, forming a column around the pistil. Anthers reniform, i -celled. 

 Ovary several-celled ; the styles united, separating upwards. Fruit cap- 

 sular; seeds reniform. Embryo curved. Endosperm little or much. 



Species 800, in tropics and warm regions. 



