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which reach the ground and there sometimes take root ; it has 
much smaller leaves than the following species, more diva- 
ricating and shorter branchlets (often like leaf-bearing spines), 
extremely short petioles, and smaller flowers. The leaves are 
generally 9 lines, sometimes 15 lines long, 6-8 lines broad, on 
a petiole 1-1 j line long; the peduncle is 8 or 9 lines long; 
the flowers have a very sweet smell ; the calyx, 2 lines long 
and broad, becomes lacerated to the base, and soon falls oflf ; 
the petals are darker, 6 or 7 lines long ; the filaments are 8 
lines, the anthers 2 lines long ; the ovary is conically oblong, 
somewhat puberulous, and, together with its long pointed 
subulate style, is 5 lines long ; the capsule is 5 lines high, 7 
lines broad, smooth and subfleshy (not transversely corruga- 
ted), 3-valved, the margins of the valves being straight and 
flattened. 
2. Tricuspidaria Patagua^ nob.; — Tideuspidaria dependens. 
Hook, [non R. & P.) Bot. Misc. iii. p. 156 ; Gay^ Chile., i. 
p. 338 ; — Crinodendron Patagua, Mol. [non Hook.) Hisf. 
Chile., pp. 146 & 290 ; Cav. Hiss. 300, tab. 158 ; — Arbor 
frondosa, ramis elongatis, subascendentibus, teretibus, stria- 
tellis, cinereis, brevissime tomentellis ; foliis sgepius oppo- 
sitis, oblongo vel lanceolato-oblongis, imo cuneatis, apice 
rotundatis aut obtusis, coriaceis, marginibus subrevolutis, 
sinuato-seiTatis, dentibus glanduloso-niucronulatis, supra 
pallide viridibus, glabemmis, nitidis, subtus glauces- 
centibus et prsesertim in nervis prominulis arcuatim nexis 
parce pubenilis, petiolo canaliculato, flavido-pubescente, 
limbo 8-plo breviore : floribus solitariis, axillaribus, longe 
pedimculatis, folio paulo brevioribus ; calyce campanulato, 
margine demum lacerato, ab ovario in fonna annulari sece- 
dente pedunculum circumdante prolapso ; petalis niveis, 
camosis, majusculis, intus usque ad medium valde carinatis, 
marginibus introplicatis ; capsula disco stipitata, ovata, 
utrinque acuta, subtrialata, marginibus valde undulatis, 
coriacea, transversim corrugata, seminibus nigris, nitentibns. 
— In Chile prov. centralibus : v. v. et sicc. (Bridges, 159). 
This is a handsome tree, about 30 feet high, also evergreen, 
growing in dider situations in all the central provinces, 
extending even into the deep valleys of the Cordillera, ami 
everywhere known by the name of “ Patagua it produces 
a timber of much utility and of considerable size — according 
to Molina, sometimes 7 feet in diameter ; but I never 
heard of any approaching so large a size. Its leaves are 
from 1^-2^ inches long, 8-12 lines broad, on a petiole 
3 lines long; the peduncle in flower is 8-10 lines long, in 
