GUNNERA PETALOIDEA GAUD. 
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gamous; small, greenish, in simple or branched spikes or panicles, the 
staminate flowers on the upper branches; flowers often packed on a 
great cob-like spike; petals 2 or 3 or none; calyx none or with 2 or 3 
lobes; stamens i, 2, or 3; ovary i-loculed, bearing 2 filiform styles; 
fruit a drupe; plants rhizomatous. 
The geographical distribution of the known Gunnera species is as 
follows : 
Sub- gen. I. Milligania {Hook. f. emend.) Schind. 
1 . cordifolia Hook, f . ; Tasmania. 
2. monoica; New Zealand, Chatham. 
3. mixta Kirk; New Zealand. 
4. strigosa Colenso; New Zealand. 
5. prorepens Hook, f.; New Zealand. 
6. densiflora Hook. f. ; New Zealand. 
7. dentata Kirk; New Zealand. 
8. arenaria Cheeseman; New Zealand. 
9. hamiltonii Kirk; New Zealand. 
Sub-gen. II. Misandra {Comm.) Schind. 
10. lobata Hook. f. ; extreme S. America. 
11. magellanica Lam.; high mountains of S. Amer., Colombiarr 
Andes, Chile, Patagonia, Ecuador, etc.; alpine. 
12. reichei Schind.; Chile (1,800 meters elev.). 
Sub-gen. III. Pseudo-Gunnera {Oerst.) Schind. 
13. macrophylla Blume; New Guinea, Celebes, Java, Sumatra,^ 
Philippines, in high mountains. 
14. perpensa L.; S. and E. Africa, Madagascar. 
Sub-gen. IV. Panke {Mol.) Schind. 
15. petaloidea Gaud.; Hawaiian Islands only. 
16. bracteata Steud.; Chile, Juan Fernandez. 
17. glabra Phil.; Chile, Juan Fernandez. 
18. pyramidalis Schind.; Chile, Juan Fernandez. 
19. peltata Phil.; Chile, Juan Fernandez. 
20. pilosa Kunth.; Colombia and Ecuador, high mountains. 
21. boliviana Morong; Bolivia. 
22. apiculata Schind.; Bolivia, high mountains. 
