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are even longer than its somewhat stout pedicels, and it diflPers 
also in the greater number of its petals (12 to 15). 
Div. 3. Pedunculi plurimi, aggregati, terminates, \-flori. 
5. Drimys Winteri, Forst. Gen. 84. tab. 42 ; Lam. Diet. ii. 331 ; 
DC. Syst. i. 443, Prodr. i. 78 ; Hook. FI. Ant. ii. 229. D. 
punctata, Lam. Diet. ii. 330, Illust. tab. 494. fig. 1. D. aro- 
matica, Desc. Ant. i. pi. 40. Winterana aromatica, Sol. 
Wintera aromatica, Murr. Syst. 507; Willd. Sj9. ii. 1239; 
Bonpl. PI. .Mquin. i. 209; — ramulis subangulatis, fusco- 
rubris; foliis oblongis, utrinque attenuatis, apice obtusius- 
culis, supi’a nitidis, enerviis, aut nervis vix distinguendis 
omnino immersis, subtus glaucis, costa mediana margineque 
cartilagineo revoluto rubris, petiolo crasso, semitereti, longi- 
usculo, superne subsulcato ; pedunculis terminalibus, simpli- 
cibus, confertis, elongatis, angulato-sulcatis, apice compressis, 
imo bracteis deciduis involucratis ; calyce majori ; petalis 5-6, 
oblongis ; ovariis 4, rarius plura. — In Patagonia et Tierra del 
Fuego. 
Folia subtus e punctulis granulosis albis creberrimis glauca, 
3-3J poll, longa, 12-16 lin. lata; petiolus 6-10 lin. longus, 
crassus, imo amplior; pedunculus 1-1|^ poll, longus; alabas- 
trus 3-4 lin. diam. ; petala 6 lin. longa*. 
I may here observe, that Lamarck’s drawing of this plant is 
defective, and that Sir Wm. Hooker’s figure, described under the 
name of D. Winteri (Bot. jMag. 4800), must be referred to 
D. Ckilensis, which I consider specifically distinct, for reasons 
already given. 
6. Drimys angustifolia, n. sp. ; — foliis elongato- vel lineari-lan- 
ceolatis, apice obtusiusculis, planis, marginibus recurvulis, 
opacis, superne baud rugulosis, nervis omnino immersis vix 
distinguendis, subtus pallide glaucis, petiolo marginibus te- 
nuibus sese involutis bine subtereti ; inflorescentia terminali 
pauciflora, pedunculis simplicibus. — In Brasilia Australi : 
V. s. in hb. Hook. (Sello). 
Folia subtus e punctulis granulosis ochraceo-albis creberri- 
mis glauca, 2 poll, longa, 2|-3 lin. lata, petiolus 4-5 lin. lon- 
gus ; pedunculus 6 lin. longus, subvalidus ; calyx in alabastro 
clausus, integer, ovatus, apiculatus, demum 2-partitus ; pe- 
tala 9, linearia, in sestivatione imbricatim inflexa ; stamina 18 ; 
ovaria 5t. 
This is another and still more extreme form than D. retorta, 
* A representation of this species is shown in plate 25 a. 
t A figure of this plant is given in plate 26 a. 
