370 • PHANEROGAM I A. 



This very distinct and still unpublished species (apparently allied 

 to R. juglandifolia of New Grenada) was sent to me many years 

 since by the late Mr. Diell, when I communicated a specimen to the 

 herbarium of Sir William Hooker, under the name here adopted. 



4. Rhus lucid a, Linn. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope, in the vicinity of Cape Town. (Foliage 

 only.) 



6. LITHRJEA, Miers. 

 1. Lithrjea caustica, Booh. & Am. 



Lithrcea caustica, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Misc. 8, p. 175. 

 L. venenosa, Miers, Trav. in Chil. 2, p. 529; Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 44. 

 Laurus caustica, Molina, Chil. p. 151 ; Willd. Spec. PI. 2, p. 479. 

 Rhus? caustica, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 15, t. 7. 



Hab. Chili, from Valparaiso to the base of the Cordilleras near 

 Santiago. Both the smooth and the downy forms; the latter more 

 common near the coast. 



7. DUVAUA, Kunth. 



1. DUVAUA DEPENDENS, DC. 



Hab. Near Valparaiso, Chili. 



Besides the narrow-leaved form of the species, which answers to 

 Amyris polygama, Cav. Ic. 3, t. 239, and the var. latifolia (D. lati- 

 folia, Gillies), which is considered to be only a state of the species 

 with broad and mostly toothed leaves, there is a variety like the 

 latter, but with very downy leaves and branchlets. 



Duvaua? dentata, DC. Prodr. 2, p. 74 (Scldnus deniatus, Andr. Bot. 

 Rep. t. 620), is wholly founded on a cultivated plant, supposed, on 

 mere hearsay evidence, to come from Hawaii. But I have seen 



