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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY, 
num tenuiter membranaceum, ad basin liberum, bine cha- 
laza magna orbiculari fusca signatum, apice micropyle fusco 
punctata ; albumen ovatum, imo valde truncatum, co- 
piosum, carnosum ; embryo inclusus, paulo brevior, cotyle- 
(lonibus ovatis, crasso-foliaceis, radicula tereti ad micropylen 
spectante 2-plo longioribus. 
Arbores Chilenses semper virentes ; folia subopposita^ oblonga^ 
glanduloso-serrataj petiolata ; racemi axillares, brevissimi^ 
paucijlori. 
1. Aristotelia Maqui, L’Hdrit. Stirp. 31, tab. 16 ; Lam. Illust. 
t. 399 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 56 ; Gray, Chile, i. 336 ; — Aristotelia 
glandulosa, R. & P. Syst. FI. Per. p. 126 ; Poir. Suppl. 
iii. p. 587 ; — frondosa, ramosissima ; foliis suboppositis, 
late ovatis vel oblongis, imo rotundatis vel subcordatis, 
apice subobtusis aut breviter attenuatis, marginibus sub- 
revolutis, dentato-sen-atis, dentibus glanduliferis, utrinque 
glabris, nisi in costa nervisque pilosulis, supra Igete viridi- 
bus, nitentibus, reticulato-venosis, subtus pallidis vel glau- 
cis ; petiolo tenui, apice 2-glanduloso, supra canaliculate, 
limbo dimidio vel 3-plo breviore, puberulo : racemis in ramis 
novellis axillaribus, ramose 3-5-floris, subpuberulis. — In 
Chile frequentissima : v. v. et s. 
An evergreen tree, growing to the height of 12 feet. The 
leaves are 2|-3 inches long, 1^-2 inches broad, on a petiole 
1 inch long ; one or two peduncles grow out of each axil, 
4 lines long, each bearing on its apex three one-flowered pedi- 
cels, 3 lines long, between two minute bracts ; the sepals are 
1 line long, the petals 1^ line*. 
I coUeefed also, in the province of Aconcagua, the variety 
Andina^ described by Philippi (Linn, xxxiii. p. 31), and dis- 
tinguished by its much thicker leaves. 
2. Aristotelia glabra, n. sp.; — foliis oppositis, oblongis vel 
lanceolato-oblongis, imo acutis, apice obtusis, membrana- 
ceis, marginibus subrevolutis, integris vel obsolete glandu- 
loso-serratis, undique glaberrimis, reticulato-venosis, sub- 
concoloribus ; petiolo tenuissimo, glabro, supra canaliculato, 
apice minutissime 2-glanduloso, limbo 3-^-plo breviore : 
racemis in ramulis novellis axillaribus, glaberrimis, rachi 
tenuissima, petiolo paulo longioribus, 3^-floris. — In Chile : 
V. V. et s. (Prov. Quillota) ; v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. {Hoi't. 
Kew. cult. A.D, 1779). 
* A drawing of this plant, with copious analytical details, is given in 
Plate 80. 
