412205. Nedyotis megellanensis Elm. Ms. Spe rect 
shrub & to 5 feet high, in red soi] of small open places 
in the forests at 1250 feet; stems solitary, or several 
from the same root cluster, strict, 1/2 inch thick, profusely 
branched from below the middle; branches lax, horizontally 
vebranched, the slender twigs green and more or lease angular; 
wood quite tough, greenish, without oder or taste; old bark 
yellowish, becoming shredded; leaves seattered all along 
the twigs, submembranous or coriaceous, fiat, deep dull 
green above, much lighter se beneath; bracts and calyx green; 
Sorclla, stamens and pistil. white; corolla less than 1/2 
ineh leona, 4«segmented, Magelleanes, April, 1910. 
12206. fYelyoums gitingentis Elm. nm. Sp. iilender tree 
in fertile reddish soil of a forested bench at 1250 feet; 
stem 3 inches thick, 20 feet high, terete, branched above 
the middle; wood moderately soft, dingy or yellowish white, 
without oder or teste; berk smooth, mottled; main branches 
spreading, laxly rebrenchod, forming an elongated crown; 
twigs upwerdly curved; leaves grecefuliy reourved, Subchartecous, 
shining green on the upper slightly folded surfece, much 
lighter green beneath; inflorescence erect, terminal, the 
rachis, pedicels and esi yx ereen; the corolla segments 
greenish yellew on the outside, whitish on the inner; filaments 
and @tyle areen especialiy the stigma; anthers greenish 
yellow; flowere sweetly fragrant. Magallanes, April, 1910. 
12207.  Memecylen rhinophyllum thw, free in red clay 
of forests on a bench at 1860 feet; stem 1 foot thiek, 30 
feet high, chiefly brenched toward the top; wood deep brown 
at least on the outside, hard brittle, odorless and tasteless; 
bark thin, dull grey to brown, ecaling in thin longitudinal 
plates; branches crooked, vltinately numerously rebranched, 
the twigs ascending and quite rigid; fruits clustered upon 
1 inch lone green stelks, slong the branchlets; the fruit not 
exceeding 1/2 inch across, globose, deep wash kan biue when 
mature, with a @ingle brown crustaceous seed; leaves rigidly 
eorieceous, ascending, slightly recurved and folded upon 
the upper shining deep green surface, much paler and aiso 
shining areen beneath, Magallene#, April, 1910. 
_ 4B210. Pygeum glendulosum Merr. Sreet tree in 
fertile soil of woods akirting open small grassy gliens at 
760 feet; atem 6 inches thick, terete, strict, 25 feet 
high, branched above the middle; wood moderately soft, white, 
fine to work, oderless and tasteless; bark smooth or with 
blunt lenticels, mottled; main branches widely #preading, 
lexly rebranched, covered with brown bank dotted with Rix 
dirty white lenticele; leaves chartaceous, descending, 
folded upon the upper side, paler or yellowksh green beneath; 
green inflorescent spikes erest, axillary from the uppermost 
jes? axils; fruits subglobose, 1/2 inch thick, more or less 
flattened, and bilobed, cherry red. Magallanes, April, 1910. 
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