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Eugenia Cfieken Hooker et Ariiott iii Bot. ßeech voy. 

 p, 65; in Hooker Bot. Mise. III. p. 320, — Bariieoud in Gay. 

 Hist. Chi). II. p. 390. 



Mi/rtus Luma Schauer in Nov. Act. nat. cur. Bonn. XIX. 

 Suppl. 1. p. 333, ncc Molina. 



Myrtus dives Kunze in Poepp. herb. 



Chequen incolis. 



Ramosissima : rami obsolete 4-goni, glabri; novelli com- 

 pressi, ciunamoniei, Folia opposita, supra impresso-, snbtus 

 elevato-glandnlosa, adnlta subtus saepe epidermide partim so- 

 luta snbbullulata; petiolo 1/2 — ^/V" long.: lamina 4 ~ 9'" 

 long., 2 —7"'' lat. ; nervo medio supra plauinseulo, subtus 

 prominente; venis utrorjue laterc 4 — 6, vix mauifestis. Pe- 

 duncnli 5 — 10"' long., glabriuscnli, snbtompressi. Alabastra 

 subgloboso-obovata j 2*/2 — 3'" long-? bracteolis 2, linearibus, 

 %'" long., caducis stipata. Gerinen frlabrinsculum, diseö 

 piano lato obtectum; sporophoris bilamellatis, 6— 12-ovu- 

 latis. Sepala 4, demum reflexa, 2 majora 1 — ^/^" long. 

 Petala 4, suborbicularia, ciliolala, 2 '/2 — 3"' long. Stamina 

 stjlusque 3 — 4'" long. (v. in herb. Berol., Mart. , Nees, 

 Viudob.). 



Specimina Poeppigiann indumento densiore, fojiis rigi= 

 dioribus, snpra vix impresso -punctatis, subtus bullulatis in= 

 structa sunt. 



111. Schauerus falso hanc speciem ad Mijrtum Lu- 

 nam Molinae retulit, quum Molina 1. c. p. 289 pedunculos 

 nee unifloros , sod triihotoraos notaverit. 



Habitat in Chili (Cruckshanks, Lay et Collie, Dr. Gil- 

 lies), ad Valparaiso (Cuming, coli. uo. 33, 93; Bridges, 

 coli. no. 322; Dr. Mertens), nee non in moutibus herbidis 

 subalpinis ad AntmOy floret Decembri (Poeppig, coli, pl, Chil. 

 IIL uo. 137). 



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