598 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: BOTANY. 



DAPHNE TENERA Phil. 



Leaves herbaceous, glabrous, narrow-oblong, obtuse, the veins (except 

 the midrib) obscure. Flowers umbellate, with capillary pedicels, equalling 

 the oblong fruit, which is attenuate in both directions. 



By Rio Palena in W. Patagon. 



2. OVIDIA Meisn. 



Shrubs of habit of Daphne, with thin, coriaceous, alternate, subsessile, 

 narrow leaves, and terminal umbels with 1-2 deciduous bracts. Flowers 

 unisexual, mostly dioecious, 4-merous. Receptacle funnelform, hairy out- 

 side. Calyx-leaves spreading ; petals none. Stamens 8, in 2 series, with 

 long filaments. Ovary sessile in the receptacular cup, i -celled. Style 

 long, with small, capitate stigma. Fruit a drupe. 



Species .5, chiefly in Chili. 



O. TENERA (Phil, sub Daphne]. 



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Leaves herbaceous, glabrous, narrowly oblong, obtuse, the veins not 

 conspicuous, excepting the midrib. Flowers umbellate, on capillary pedi- 

 cels, as long as the oblong, doubly attenuate fruit. Peduncle 12 mm. 

 long; pedicels 6-8 mm.; plant 9 cm. high. 



S. Patagon., by Lago Argentine; W. Patagon., by Rio Palena. 



3. DRAPETES Banks. 



Cespitose shrubs, with small, coriaceous, imbricating leaves, and heads 

 of flowers at the ends of the branches and also among the leaves. 

 Stamens 4, as many as, and alternate with, the perianth-lobes. Berry 

 i -seeded. 



Species 5, in Antarctic Amer., Papua, Australia, Borneo, and New 

 Zealand. 



D. MUSCOIDES Lam. 



Perianth-throat without scales. Receptacle glandless. Leaves decus- 

 sate, sessile, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, appressed-pilose. Peduncles 

 simple, erect, naked. Involucral leaves 4, minute, equalling the flower. 



E. and W. Magellan ; Fuegia to Cape Horn ; S. Patagon., by Rio Azo- 

 pardo (Dusen) ; Falklands. (Fig. in Eng. and Prantl, iii, 6a, p. 244, C.) 



