298 PHANEROGAMIA. 



Apparently an arborescent species, nearly related to the preceding ; 

 from which it is distinguished by its less reticulated and narrower, 

 spatulate-oblong, or Ia?iceolate-oblong leaves (from 2h to 4 inches in 

 length, and an inch or rarely more in breadth), the base usually 

 tapering into the short petiole; and by the fewer (only 10 or 12) cells 

 to the ovary and fruit. The corolla is occasionally five-parted, but 

 more frequently six-parted, the calyx in both cases being only four- 

 lobed. In all the fertile flowers examined the (sterile?) stamens are 

 uniformly of the same number as the divisions of the corolla; but in 

 some sterile flowers they are more numerous, usually twice as many ! 



The inflorescence is commonly more developed, and with more 

 numerous flowers than in the specimen delineated in the plate, at 

 least in the sterile plant; in one specimen of which the peduncles 

 are two inches long, and the trichotomous cyme equals the leaves. 



Plate 25, B. — Byronia Taitensis : a branch with sterile flower- 

 buds, and another in fruit. Fig. 1. Unexpanded sterile flower. 2. 

 Sterile flower with the hexamerous corolla and stamens displayed : 

 the calyx and pistil underneath. 3. A seven-cleft corolla of a sterile 

 flower, with 12 stamens displayed. 4. A drupe. 5. The same, 

 transversely divided. 6. Vertical section of a drupe, showing a section 

 of one seed, and its embryo. 



4. VILLARESIA, Ruiz & Pav. 



1. VlLLARESIA MUCRONATA, Ruiz & Pav. 



Villaresia mueronata, Euiz & Pav. Fl. Per. & Chil. 3, p. 9, t. 231; A. Juss. in Ann. 



Sci. Nat. 25, p. 14, t. 5, f. 2 j Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 13. 

 Citronella mueronata, Don. in Edinb. New Phil. Jour. 13, p. 243. 



Hab. Chili, near Valparaiso. (Foliage only.) 



