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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
per paria angulo centrali horizontaliter affixa ; stylus ovario 
aequilongus, temiiter subulatus ; stigma obtusulum aut vix 
ullum. Capsula ovata, 3-4-qiietra, angulis undulatis, stylo 
acuminata, disco persistente stipitata, 3-4-locularis, ultra 
medium loculicide patentim dehiscens, dissepimentis medio 
valvarum affixis,adaxin solutis, margine seminiferis, column a 
centrali nulla. Semina in quoque loculo 4-8, biserialia, 
obovata, subangulata, una extremitate hilo minimo notata, 
altera rotundata ; integumentum externum nitidum, nigrum, 
carnosulum, sicco fragile et facile desiliente, raphen ab hilo 
ad chalazam in forma chordm longitudinalis includens ; 
tunica secunda obovata, subossea, imo incrassata et tinincata, 
hinc foramine intra locellum vacuum (pro raphes transitu) 
perforata, apiee mamilla parva apiculata, Isevis, opaca, pal- 
lida ; integumentum internum submembranaceum, fulvum, 
imo ehalaza magna orbiculari notatum, apice micropyle 
punctatum : albumen obovatum, prope chalazam tnincatum, 
carnosum ; embryo inclusus, fere lequilongus, cotyledonihus 
ovatis, compressis, radicula tereti ad hilum spectante 4-plo 
longioribus. 
Arbores Ghilenses, semper virentes^ frondosce ; folia suboppo- 
sita, oblonga, glanduloso-serrata, breviter petiolata: flores 
speciosi, albi, majusculiy solitarii^ axillares^ longe pedun- 
culati. 
1. Tricuspidaria dependens^ R. & P. Prodr. FI. Per. 64, tab. 36, 
Syst. p. 112 ; DC. Prodr. i. p. 520 ; — Tricuspis dependens, 
Pers. Ench. ii. p. 9 ; — Arbor frondosa, ramis divergentibus, 
altemis, rarius suboppositis, teretibus, glabris, ultimis bre- 
vibus, rigide spiniformibus et foliolosis ; foliis subaltemis, 
rarius oppositis,_ subparvis, ovatis, utrinque obtusis, coria- 
ceis, marginibus subrevolutis, crebi'e glanduloso-seiTatis, 
supra laete viridibus, glaberrimis, subtus pulverulento-glau- 
cis ; petiolo brevissimo, glabro, limbo 10-plo breviore : flori- 
bus axillaribus, solitariis, subbreviter pedunculatis, folio 
paulo brevioribus ; calyce irregulariter rupto, demum deci- 
duo ; petalis subcoloratis, extus pulverulento-tomentosis : 
capsula disco stipitata, depresso-trigonoidea, laevi, subcar- 
nosa, valvarum marginibus planis. — In Chile prov. austra- 
lioribus : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. (spec. tyj). Ruiz & Pav.) ; 
Concepcion (Dombey). 
There can be no doubt in regard to the identity of this spe- 
cies, with which the following has been confounded. It is an 
evergreen tree, about 20 feet high, with a tnink about a foot 
in diameter, growing in moist places and on the sides of rivers 
in the provinces of Concepcion and Itata, with pendent branches 
