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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



viscid and resinous. Their flowers 1 are rarely axillary, usually 

 collected into terminal cymes forming false racemes or corymbs. 



Valdima Gayana 2 is a little Chilian shrub, whose flower scarcely 

 differs from that of Escattonia? Its parts may be in sixes or 



Escallonia rubra. 



Fig. 406. 

 Flower. 



Fig. 407. 

 Diagram. 



Fig. 408. 

 Long. sect, of flower (|). 



sevens, while the gynseceum is di- or trimerous. 4 Each petal bears 

 inside and near its base a tuft of hairs ; and the dry membranous 

 fruit is perhaps indehiscent. The habit is very peculiar : the very 

 humble stem bears large obovate-lanceolate leaves, with glandular 

 teeth. The flowers form axillary racemes. 



In Quinlina 5 the flowers are those of Escallonia and Valdivia, but 

 smaller. The ovary is however only partly inferior, and contains from 

 three to five cells, complete or incomplete. The fruit is capsular, 

 and opens between the carpels to free the numerous winged seeds. The 

 genus comprises shrubs with alternate simple exstipulate leaves, and 



t. 202.— Presl, Bel. Hanlc, ii. t. 51-59.— 

 A. S. H., Fl. Bras. Mer., ii. t. 51-59.— Pcepp. 

 & Endl., Nov. Gen. et Spec, i. 8, t, 13-15. — 

 Link & Ott., Ic. Sel., t. 23.— R£ny, in C. Gay 

 Fl. Chil., iii. 49.— Wedd., Chi. Andin., ii. 208, 

 t. 71 B.— Hook., Icon., t. 114, 514, 540.— Bot. 

 Beg., t. 1467, 1900.— Bot. Mag., t. 2890, 4473, 

 4827.— Walp., Bep., ii. 377 ; v. 837 j Ann., i. 

 338, 976; v. 32; vii. 905. 

 1 White, pink, or red. 



2 ll&HY, in C. Gay Fl. Chil, iii. 43, t. 29.— 

 B. H., Gen., 644, n. 37.— Walp., Ann., i. 976. 



3 The petals are valvate. 



4 If there are two placentas, they touch when 

 adult, and the ovary is two-celled ; but when 

 young they easily separate from one another. 



5 A. DC, Monogr. Campanulac, 92 ; Prodr., 

 iv. 5,— Endl., in Mora (1832), 389, t. 3; At alt., 

 t. 10; Gen., n. 4675.— B. H., Gin., 615, n. 38. 



