172 CARL SKOTTSBERG 



Rather like Schumann's illustration in Flora Brasil. VI: 6, tab. 127. Agrees 

 very well with specimens from Chile. Glabrous with few hairs on the ovary. 



Undoubtedly of recent introduction, as it has not been recorded by previous 

 visitors in spite of growing in Cumberland Bay. There is perhaps no reason 

 to regard it as introduced with the human traffic; the valley is sometimes visited 

 by stray birds from the continent, and they very likely brought seeds of this 

 and some other species in mud adhering to their feet. 



Area of distribution: Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile from 

 Valparaiso to Chiloe, Masatierra. 



Nertera Banks et Sol. 



107. N. depressa Banks et Sol. — Skottsberg, Stud. 6. 

 Masafuera: almost confined to the subalpine and alpine districts, where 



it occurs in moist places, round large stones, in small depressions in the ground 

 etc., generally associated with mosses. — Q. de las Casas, in wet moss at the 

 waterfall, 215 m; high land north of Casas, not uncommon from 750 to about 

 1 100 m (fr. I2 /2 17, no. 413, 26 /2 17, no. 413 c); among rocks at Las Torres, 

 1370 m (fl.-fr. no. 413b); C. del Barril, 650 — 750 m. 



Area of distribution: Mexico to Fuegia; subantarctic — circumpolar; 

 Hawaii; Masafuera. 



Coprosma Forst. 



108. C. triflorum (Hook, et Arn.) Benth. et Hook. f. — JOHOW, Est. 73. — 

 Fig. 24 a — c. 



Masatierra: in the open forest and in the shrubberies along the ridges, 

 not uncommon from 3—400 m, ascending to the highest peaks and ranging 

 from Pto Frances to Co Chumacera. Fl. J 1 14 /ia 16, no. 26, 17 /i2 16, no. 150; 

 fl. ? 17 /i2 16, no. 151 (a few fruits from 1916 still on the trees); past fl. $ 

 4 /i 17, no. 235; fr. 28 / 3 17, no. 570, "/* 17, no. 611. 



Mistaken for Hippotis triflora Ruiz, et Pav. by Bertero, Ann. sc. nat. 

 XXI. 347; called Psychotria? triflora Hook, et Arn., Bot. Misc. III. 359, P. Hookeri 

 G. Don Gen. Syst. Gard. III. 585. The flowers have not been described, but 

 Bentham and HOOKER Fil. recognized it as a member of the genus Coprosma, 

 Gen. plant. II. 139. 



Generally strictly dioecious. Corolla of $ 6 — 7 mm long, fleshy, greenish 

 brown, as a rule 4-cleft; 4 stamens with thin filaments, 6 — 7 mm long, anthers 

 4,5 — 5 mm with thick, brown connective. Female flowers with 2,5 mm long 

 ovary; corolla dark lilac brown with narrow tube measuring 2 — 3 mm and four 

 strongly revolute narrow linear segments, 2 — 2,5 mm long. Styles white, 9 mm long. 



In one case a number of bisexual flowers were found on a branch of a 

 female tree. They have a large, normal ovary with the usual long styles. The 

 corolla is more as in the male flower, but only 4 — 5 mm long; there are 4 

 stamens with 2,5 mm long anthers but very short filaments. The pollen contained 

 numerous sterile grains. 



