540 PHANEROGAM! A. 



to accord with the present genus. The leaves are oval or elliptical, 

 sometimes inclining to obovate or rotund, usually very obtuse, short- 

 petioled, coriaceous in texture, dull and very opaque, an inch to an 

 inch and a half in length, 8 to 12 lines wide, whitish and obscurely 

 feather-veined beneath, glabrous or glabrate at maturity, the young ones, 

 like the branchlets, ferrugineous-pubescent, the pubescence fine and 

 close. Peduncles solitary or even 3 or 4 from the same axil, slender, 

 flattish, as long as the leaves, or sometimes longer, only the depaupe- 

 rate ones one-flowered, commonly %-1-flowered in a hind of umbel, the 

 central flower sessile, the others on pedicels of 2 to 4 lines long, or the 

 stronger pair again trifid at the apex, forming a 7-9-flowered cyme. 

 Bractlets at the forking and at the base of each flower subulate, persis- 

 tent. Flowers apparently smaller than in the foregoing species, but 

 of the same structure. Tube of the calyx turbinate, ferrugineous, 

 puberulent ; the lobes rounded, reflexed after anthesis. Ovary three- 

 celled ; the cells containing numerous ovules. 



3. Luma Ckuckshanksii. 



Eugenia Cruehshanhsii, Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Misc. 3, p. 321. 



Hab. Chili, near Valparaiso. 



Of this species we have in the collection only a fragment, destitute 

 both of good flowers and of fruit. It appears to be nearly allied to 

 the preceding species. The seeds, which are said to have a crusta- 

 ceous testa, and the cotyledons, said to be conferruminate, should be 

 re-examined. 



4. Luma stenophylla. 



Eugenia stenophylla, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Misc. 3, p. 322 ; Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 395. 

 Myrtus Gudilla, Colla, in Mem. Acad. Turin. 37, p. 66, t. 15. 



Hab. Chili ; along the banks of the river near Valparaiso. 



This species, with the allied L. {Eugenia, Hook. & Arn.) planipes, 

 belongs to the same group as L. Temu. I have not seen the fruit, 

 which is said by Gay to be a three-celled and few-seeded berry. The 



