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This is very distinct from the preceding, in its very glabrous 
leaves, sometimes acutely narrowed at the base, upon more 
slender petioles ; they are 2-2| inches long, f-l^ broad, 
upon a petiole 6-9 lines long ; the peduncle of the raceme is 
6 lines long, its pedicels 2-3 lines long, sometimes abortively 
with only one or two flowers. 
2. Friesia. 
This genus has certainly some points of resemblance to 
Aristotelia ; but the many differential characters, already enu- 
merated, are too numerous to admit of the two genera being 
amalgamated together. Aristotelia is conflned to Chile, while 
Friesia hitherto has been found only in insular positions, 
being distributed over New Zealand, Tasmania, and Hong 
Kong. Its generic features may be thus stated : — 
Friesia, DC.; — Aristotelia {;in parte) ^ Hook. fil. — Floren 
dioici aut polygami. Sepala 4, oblonga, utrinque sub- 
obtusa, lestivatione valvata, decidua. Fetala 4, cuneato- 
oblonga, apice 3-loba, lobis oblongis, rotundatis, sepalis paulo 
longiora, *stivatione imbricata. Discus e glandulis 4 
squamiformibus carnosulis sepalis oppositis tori margine 
enatis constans, pilosus. Stamina 12, disco interiora, crebre 
uniserialia ; Jilamenta brevia, compresso-subulata, apice in- 
curva, pilosa ; anikerce oblong*, 4-sulcatae, in sinu cordato 
basiflx*, 2-loculares, pilosulas, primum poris 2 magnis api- 
calibus, demum rimis lateralibus dehiscentibus. Ovarium 
in sterilibus, quadratim disciforme, depressum, in fertilibus 
ovatum, toro semiimmersum, 4-loculare ; ovula in quoque 
loculo 2 ; stylus brevis, subulatus ; stigma obtusum, obscure 
4-lobum. Fructus exsuccus, bacciformis, globosus, pi- 
peris mole, 4-locularis, pericaipio crustaceo, dissepimentis 
membranaceis. Semina in quoque loculo 2, superposita, 
angulato-triquetra, angulo centrali hilo parvo medio affixa ; 
integumentum externum nitidmn,crassiusculum,mesodermide 
gelatinosa mox siccata repletum, exappendiculatum ; integu- 
mentum secundum osseum, extus valde tuberculatum, imo 
crassiore, et hinc foramine minuto in locellum parvum va- 
cuum pro raphe intrusa perforatum ; integumentum internum 
submembranaceum, coloratura, chalaza magna orbiculari 
signatum ; albumen subovatum, imo truncatum, camosum ; 
embryo inclusus ; cotyledonihus subfoliaceis, ovatis, radicula 
tereti ad micropylen spectante longioribus. 
Arbores Tasmanicce^ Nova-Zelandicce et Chinenses ; folia sub- 
opposita^ ovatUj serrata vel integra^ petiolata ; flores ramoso- 
