100 THE PLANT WOKLD. 



is 4-inei'ous ; L'llaea confined to the Chilian Andes, and Tcfru)}- 

 cium nniting- MageUan, Fuegia as far as Cape Horn, and the 

 FalkLmd Isles. Galmardia, of the Centrolepidaceae, IVirniing 

 tnrf-mosslike masses, has a congener in Xew Zealand, and this 

 small family nnites New Zealand, Tasmania and Peranstral 

 America, Marsipposperrnion, of the Jnncaceae, nnites with ]S'ew 

 Zealand, and Rosthovia with Campbell's Island. 



The frutescent Liliaceae are a surprise to a stranger. Here 

 are monocotylous shrubs with reticulate leaves. One of them, 

 Callixene marginata Lam., unites Mag-ellan, Cape Horn, Staat- 

 en Island, Falklands and Xew Zealand, wliilst other species are 

 in South Chili. Philesia hnxifolia Lam. extends from South 

 Patagonia to Cape Horn, remarkable for its large pink flowcn-s 

 and its leafage like the box-shrub. Of Irids, Si/mpliijostoiton 

 has rich Ijclhtlowers, and Tapeinia iiinjir/lnnlra has distichous 

 leaves, like a clul>nioss. Orchids are represented by many spe- 

 cies of CliJuraca, in Patagonia, Fuegia, and Falklands, and tlie 

 beautiful Codouorcliis, like Arethnxn, Init with a whorl of ,")-<; 

 leaves midway on its scape. 



The apetalous dicots have several singular genera. Thus 

 the species of the Southern beech, Not]iofa(/ti.'<. forms forests in 

 Western Magellan and Fuegia. Tliese false beeches have about 

 a dozen species distributed over (diili, Patagonia, Australia and 

 IsTew Zealand ; thcv diifer from the true beeches bv havino- male 

 floAvers few in a cluster and styles short ; and the Chilian-Patago- 

 nian forms are of two groups, deciduous and evergreen; the 

 deciduous, N. antai-ciica, is remarkable for its small, flabellately 

 folded leaves, and forms dense woods in the Southern Andes 

 and in Fuegia. The evergreen beech, Nothofagus heiuJoidcs 

 makes forests in Fuegia. On the beeches grow the parasitical 

 shrubs, Myzodendron, several species of this ''Angel's-beard" 

 being found in Patagonia, Fuegia and Southern Chili, and no- 

 where else. Whilst Proteacea; are characteristic of Australia 

 and Southern Africa, a few of them, belonging to a particular 

 section, are in Peranstral America. 



A curiosity among the Caryophyllacetp is Spegazzi's new 



