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Falklands, etc. the narrowness of the fruit, the calyx is attenuated between the aristae, and the mouth of its tube generally terminates in four recurved points ; the petals are longer and narrower and the stamens very small, with filaments even shorter than the anthers ; the latter were invariably full of pollen and quite perfect.

Plate XCVI. B. Fig. 1, a flower; jig. 2, stamen; Jig. 3, longitudinal section of flower, after the petals have fallen away; jig. 4, carpel, removed from the tube of the calyx : all magnified; — jig. 5, head of mature fruit: of the natural size.

10. Ac.ena Antarctica, Hook, fil.; piunila, caulibus brevibus robustis prostratis ascendentibus parce ramosis, foliis confertis foliolis 3-4 late oblongis obtuse serratis medio caualiculatis supra dense pilis fulvis sericeo-villosis subcoriaceis infra pilosis, pedunculo scapiformi, capitulo — ?

Hab. Fuegia, Staten Land ; A. Menzies, Esq. Hennite Island, Cape Horn ; on the mountains, rare, 1000 feet.

Caulis 2-3-uncialis, vaginis membranaceis glaberrimis foliorum tectus. Folia vix uncialia, petiolo gracili appresse sericeo. Foliola sub ^ unc. longa, dorso carinata, marginibus recurvis. I have not met with this small and very distinct species either in flower or fruit, nor does it exist in any other collection of Fuegian plants than my own and that of the late Mr. Menzies. Below are descriptions of two additional Acana, which, with the above and four others in De Candolle's Prodronius, include all the South American plants of this genus, known to me.

1., Plum.

1. coccinea, Ait. ''Hort. Kew.'' v. ii. p. 352.

Var. &alpha;, robustior, foliis summis sessilibus, petiolis omnibus brevioribus. F. coccinea, Ait. 1. c. Curl. Bot. Mag. t. 96. ''Willd. in Uster Annal.'' pt. 3. p. 37. t. 6. ''DC. Prodr.'' vol. iii. p. 38, in part. F. Magellanica, ''Lamk. Encycl.'' vol. ii. p. 565. ''Illust. Gen.'' t. 282. Thilco, ''Feuill. Obs.'' vol. iii. p. 6. t. 47.