1 84 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I BOTANY. 



acuminate, with pellucid dots ; glabrous when adult, greenish white 

 underneath. Peduncles 1-3, strong, compressed, each i -flowered, shorter 

 than leaves. Sepals triangular-concave, ciliolate. Ovary 3-celled. 

 S. Chili ; N. W. Patagonia, by Rio Palena. 



2. M. APICULATA (DC.) of which Eugenia apiculata DC. is a synonym. 

 For description and distribution see Macl., p. 604, No. i. 



MYRCIA DC. 



Trees or shrubs, with opposite pinnately veined leaves and mostly 

 small, axillary or subterminal flowers, in cymes or panicles. Calyx tur- 

 binate or hemispherical, 5-merous; petals 5, spreading. Stamens num- 

 erous, with free filiform filaments, and dorsifixed 4-celled parallel anthers. 

 Ovary 2-3-celled, or more, with 2 ovules side-by-side in each cell. 

 Seeds 1-2, with rather long, incurved radicle. 



Through all S. Amer. extending to Patagonia. 



M. CHILENSIS Berg. 



A tall tree with opposite, petiolate, coriaceous, oblong, or oval-oblong 

 leaves; which are long-acuminate, and basally acute, punctate when 

 young. Panicles strong, axillary and subterminal, longer than the leaves, 

 many-flowered. Sepals short, obtuse, ciliolate. Petals white (?). Branch- 

 lets and panicles compressed; and nigrescent; young leaves, etc., 

 puberulous. 



Chili, Patagonia. 



M. LECHLERIANA Miquel. 



Branches glabrous ; branchlets and petioles densely appressed, hirtulous, 

 as both sides of leaves. Leaves not glandular-punctate, elliptical, 25 

 mm. long, acute both ends, pale underneath. Flowers axillary and ter- 

 minal, racemed-corymbose. Calyx turbinate, finely 2-bracteolate at base ; 

 petals suborbicular, finely ciliolate ; 5th calyx-lobe smaller. Style flexuose, 

 curved. Ovary 2-celled. 



By Valdivia in S. Chili ; Patagonia. 



M. SERICEA Berg. 



Low trees having branchlets and young leaves silky with white hairs ; 

 leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate or ovate-oblong, gradually attenuate, 



