CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
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I have copied the details in that respect from Gay’s work, 
where alone it is described. 
Crinodendron, Hook, (non Mol. nec Cavan.). — Flores herma- 
phroditi. Sepala 3, distincta, sequalia, obovata, apice 2-den- 
tata, dentibus rotundatis, parallele nervosa, utrinque adpresse 
pilosa, «stivatione paulo imbricata, valde caduca. Petala o, 
oblonga, sepalis plusquam duplo longiora, extus convexa, 
imo breviter saccata, lateribus inflexis, apice breviter et 
acute 3-dentata, carnosula, suberecta, extus glabra, intus in 
nervis parallelis prominulis pilosula, sestivatione introdexo- 
plicata, dentibus valvatis, mox decidua. Discus in forma 
gynophori late columnaris, centralis, extus in glandulas 10 
parallelas oblongo-ovatas inciso-sulcatus, coloratus, per- 
sistens. Stamina 20, gequalia, summo disci circa ovarium 
uniseriatim inserta ; filamenta tenuissime linearia, imo paulo 
latiora, subcurvata, brevissime hispida ; antJierie longe line- 
ares, 4-sulcat8e, scabridulae, geniculatim basifixa3, apicibus 
conniventes, antice et postice profunde sulcata?, 2-loculares, 
vertice e poris 2 confluentibus brevissime 2-valvatim serius 
longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Pollen minute globosum. 
Ovarium ovatum, disco stipitatum, sulcatum, velutino-pi- 
losum, 5-loculare ; ovula 24-30 in quovis loculo, crebre 
3- sei'iatim axe centrali affixa : stylus subulatus, erectus, sub- 
tenuis, 5-sulcatus, subglaber; stigma obsoletum. Capsula 
(sec. cl. Gay) subrotunda, grosse buUata, coriacea, velutina, 
4— 5-locularis, loculicide dehiscens ; semina in quovis loculo 
3-4, supeiq)osita, axi affixa, rotundo-pyrifonnia, subangu- 
lata ; testa Crustacea : embryo in albumine subtenui corneo- 
camoso orthotropus ; cotyledones plani, suborbiculares, 
radicula brevi, supera. 
Arbor CMlensis et CMhensis^ frondosa, sempervirens ; folia 
sublanceolata^ glanduloso-serrata^ breviter petiolata : tlores 
speciosi^ aurantiaci^ majusculi^ solitarii^ axillares^ longis- 
sime pedunculati. 
1. Crinodendron Hoolcerianum^ C. Gay, Flor. Chile, i. p. 341 ; 
— Crinodendron Patagua, Hook, {non Mol. nec Cav.) Dot. 
Misc. iii. p. 156, tab. 100 ; — Arbor frondosa ; foliis suboppo- 
sitis vel subternis, lanceolato-oblongis, utrinque obtusis aut 
subacutis, marginibus valde revolutis, remote serratis, dentibus 
longe glanduloso-mucronatis, supra pallide viridibus, subtus 
ilavido-glaucis, in axillis nervorum fasciculato-barbatis, 
nervis arcuatis prominentibus, petiolo limbo 12-plo breviore 
costaque pubescente : floribus axillaribus, solitariis, cum 
pedunculo apice incrassato pubescente 2-3-plo longiore 
folia subaequantibus ; sepalis utrinque puberulis ; petalis 
