12053. Giirue hystrix BO, Gnerly trees in arom 
eompact clayey Geil of light woods or in Shruberries at 500 
feet; wood moderately hard and brittle, dingy or yellowish 
white, oderiess, sweetish; berk thin, gray and brown mottled, 
green just beneath the epidermis; the main branches frou 
below the middle, the greenish ultimate enes quite numerous; 
leaves sorincoous, ascending, only the tips recurved, deep 
green shove, much lighter ao benesth; when erushed with «a 
strong green lemon rind oder, the leef axile usually provided 
with 1 to & aharp green Bpines; inflorescence in small 
axillary clusters, ite short subereot axis green; pedicels 
and ealyx purplish; the thick 4 er 5 petals white, a8 are 
aleo the filamenta; anthers light yeliow, ovary green and 
shiny, the short Style psliid; stigma euvbeepitate, yellowish; 
"Goleson." “agallanes, March, 1910. 
12064. Pittesperum subverticelliatea Him. Ms 8pPe Small 
tree 18 feet high with a 7 inch thick stem, ia dry e011 of 
light woods at 500 feet; wood quite hard, sappy white 
throughout, eweetish, odorless; bark grayish mottled, densely 
covered with large lenticels; branches numerous, forming an 
elongated erown; leaves coriaceous, Lueid green ou the upper 
folded surface, such paler green beneath, tips strongly 
recurved, usually arranged in subwhoris; inflorescence 
ascending or erect, axillery oy interaxiliary, eli the 
stalke ani calyx green, corolla creamy yoliow; Style, ovary 
and filemente of the same color, stigma green, anthers brown; 
areen fruite bluntly obleng, 3/4 ineh long, 1/2 inch ecross 
the middle, creased, 4 to 4-celled, each cell containe many 
fletiened brown seeds; ite juice slightly macilaginew 
"amomunpon;" Leaves end twige are used as Stomach med eine, 
Megallanes, Wareh, 1910. 
12055, Zvedia latifolia DO. A tree-like shrub 16 
feet high in light woods bordering meadows et 250 feet; stem 
branched from below the middle, 6 inehes thick, the ultimate 
branches eubereet; wood light, eeft, white throughout, 
tasteless, slightly odorous; berk yellowish gray or brown 
on the branches; leaves ascending; the blades descending, 
submembrancus, @ trifle deeper green on the upper side, the 
main yoinse benedth yellowieh green; flowers odorless, soft, 
green, exeept the whitieh filaments and style, the former 
beering brown anthers, the latter max pailid etigmas; fruite 
flattened, lees than i/e inch across, green, 4~lobed and 
4—-se0ded; "Botonge Magallanes, March, 1910+ 
12056.  Glochidion urephylleides cla. Tree-like, 
20 feet high, with e 7 inch thick stem, in light woods or 
shruberries bordering meadows at 260 feet; main branches 
arising from below the middie, ascending, rather nunere nely 
pranched toward the ends; twigs green, subangular; woed 
tough, the thin outer portion sappy, duii fiewk ved toward 
the center; bark red beneath the thin seely deep brown 
eurfece; leaves descending, coriaceous, eurvingiy folded 
upon the upper much deeper ages end sublueid side; 
inflorescence green except the yellow flowers, odorless; 
fruits flattened especially on the upper side, less than 
1/2 ineh scross, turning red in the sunlight, 5-celied,. 
each Gell with 2 orange red seeds, "“Hamo jucna," 
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