Falkland*, etc.] FLORA ANTARCTICA. 303 



5. Galium Clionoense, Hook, fil.; perenne?, scabridum, caule valido ad angulos retrorsum scabrido 

 subfastigiatiin ramoso, foliis senis rigidiusculis patentibus lanceolatis subobtusis pagina superiore marginibus 

 recurvis nervoque dorso scabridis, pedunculis folio brevioribus solitariis fasciculatisve 1-5-fioris plerisque 

 f oliatis, pedicellis simplicibus v. bifidis, floribus minimis, ovariis glaberrimis. 



Hab. Choiios Archipelago; C. Darwin, Esq. 



Caulis spithamaeus, diametro penua; passerinse, subuitens, foliosus, pluries ramosus ; ramis erecto-patentibus. 

 Folia i unc. longa, patentia, siccitate nigrescentia. Flores valde inconspicui. Fruetus ?. 



6. Galium Antarctic/cm, Hook, fil.; glabriusculurn, caule decumbente tenui flaccido parce ramoso, 

 foliis quaternis pateiiti-recurvis oblongis oblongo-lanceolatis lineari-lanceolatisve marginibus tenuissime 

 scaberulis, floribus in axillis foliorum solitariis, pedunculis fructiferis validis folio brevioribus, fractious 

 glaberrimis laevibus. G. trifidum? UUrv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Park, vol. vi. p. 612. Gawd, in, Frei/c. Voy. 

 Bot. p. 135. G. debile, Banks el Sol. MSS. in Bill. Banks, {non Hoffm.). 



Hab. Tierra del Fuego ; Good Success Bay, Banks and Solander; Staten Land, Br. Eights; Hermite 

 Island, /. B. II; Falkland Islands, D'Urvitte, fyc; Kerguelen's Land, White Bay. Br. Robertson. 



Caides 3-5 unc. longi, intertexti, subnitidi, ad angulos sub lente scaberuli. Folia flaccida, patentia, obtusa, 

 2 lin. ad -j unc. longa, opaca, marginibus recurvis. Flores sessiles, albi, trimeri ; staminibus 3. Pedunculi fructi- 

 feri arcuati ; fructibus didyniis glaberrimis. 



A very distinct little species, somewhat resembling the G. saxatile, L., of Europe. It abounds in the Falkland 

 Islands, especially near fresh-water lagoons. 



2. NERTERA, Banks. 



1. Neuteka depressa, Banks. Ft. Infarct, pt. 1. p. 23. 



Hab. Falkland Islands, Gandicliaud, D'Urvitte, and all future collectors. 



This curious little plant has not hitherto been described as a native of Fuegia, though abundant in the Falkland 

 Islands and Tristan d'Acunha, also on the west coast of America, at Valdivia, and in other parts of Chili. A 

 specimen, apparently of the same species, has been transmitted from the Andes of Columbia by Professor Jameson, 

 but it bears neither flower nor fruit. 



XXIV. VALERIANE^E. DC. 



1. VALERIANA, Neck. 



2. Valeriana lapathifolia, Vahl; foliis radicalibus longe petiolatis oblongis acutis basi cordatis 

 rotundatisve integris marginibus obscure sinuatis caulinis ovatis breve petiolatis supremis sa°pe sessilibus 

 nervis super pilosiusculis, petiolis basi ciliatis, panicula composita late ovata, bracteis linearibus obtusis basi 

 eiliato-dentatis, staminibus 3. V. lapathifolia, Tald, Enum. Plant . vol. ii. p. 11. BC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 635. 



Hab. Strait of MagaUiaens, Commerson ; Port Famine, Capt. King ; Cape Tres Montes, C.Darwin, Esq. 



RMzoma elongatum, horizontale, crassitie digitis minoris, atrum, nodosum, ad nodos radices plurimos fibrosos 

 emittens. Folia caulina \\ pedalia, subcamosa; petiolo laminam superante. Panicula terminales, 1-2 unc. longae. 

 Fruetus glaberrimus, compressus, 6-nervis. 



