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clothed with thin ghttering adpressecl x3ale-brown tomentum. 

 Peduncle 0, or very short. Flowers 1-3. Bracts and sepals similar 

 in shape and texture, i-i-in. long, thinly lepidote, distinctly ribbed. 

 Corolla not seen. Cylindiical capsule under an inch long, the 

 linear valves half-a-hne broad. 



On trees and bushes at the foot of the Cordillera, near Mendoza, 

 Gillies. Cordova, Lorejitz, 12S I South Chili, W. Lobb ! South 

 Brazil, Glaziou, 3124 ! Parana, Christie ! General habit of Lyco- 

 poditwi Selago. AVhat I take to be a stunted form of the same 

 species has tightly imbricated, lanceolate, dirty-white, thicker 

 leaves, not more than ^-^-in. long. 



2. T. tricholepis, Baker, n. sp. General habit of T. bryoides. Leafy 

 stems reaching a length of 2-3 inches. Leaves as tightly packed 

 as in the last, rather longer (f— |^-in. long), narrowed gradually 

 from a clasping lanceolate base to a fine lian-like point, ascendmg, ^ 

 erect or a little curved, densely scabrous throughout, with white, 

 glittering, deflexed, acuminate lanceolate scales. Peduncle 1-2 

 inches long, 1-2-flowered, flexuose, with several closely-appressed, 

 lanceolate bracts. Sepals and bracts oblong-lanceolate, naked, 

 striated, ^-i-in. long, the former deltoid at the tip. Capsule 

 cylindrical, twice as long as the calyx, its valves about half-a-line 

 broad. 



Andes of Bolivia ; on bushes, in the temperate region about 

 Sorata, Poquerani, and San Pedro, at an elevation of 2500 to 

 2650 metres, Mandon, 1179 ! 



3. T. pmilla, Gillies MSS. Stems under an inch long. 

 Leaves about a dozen to a simple stem, squarrose or ascending, ^^ 

 i-^-in. long, terete from a clasping lanceolate base, ^-line in 

 thickness where they leave the stem, not hau'-like at the point, 

 densely clothed throughout with loose, chaffy, lanceolate, whitish, 

 lepidote scales. Peduncle none, the solitary flowers springing 

 from the base of the leaves at the end of the leafy stems. Sepals 

 i-in. long. Corolla and capsule not seen. 



Mendoza, on bushes. Gillies! May be a very dwarf reduced 

 form of the next. 



4. T. jjrojnnqua, C. Gay, ' Fl. Chil.,' vol. vi., p. 15. Stems 



2-3 in. long, densely caespitose, often copiously branched. Leaves ^ 

 20-30 to a fully-developed simple stem, f-f -in. long, ascending or 

 si^reading, subterete above the lanceolate clasping bas^, half-a-Hne 

 in diameter above the base, not hair-pointed at the tip, the face 

 distinctly deeply- channelled from the tip downwards, the whole 

 surface densely coated with loose, chaffy, pale-brown, or whitish 

 lepidote scales. Flowers often many to a stem, solitary, sessile, or 

 shortly peduncled. Bract oblong, lepidote, ^-in. long, tightly 

 clasping the calyx. Sepals lanceolate, naked, acute, ^-in. long. 

 Capsule cylindrical, i-f -in. long, its valves ^-line broad. 



Andes of Chili, Cuming, 167 ! Bridges, 534 ! Herb. Reed! Casa 

 Cancha, Willies'' Exjjeditiun. Cordoba, Lore^itz, 129 ! Andes of 

 BoUvia, temperate region, 4000 metres, Mandon, 1181 ! 



T. laniiginusa, Gillies MSS., from trees and bushes at the foot 

 of the Cordillera, near Mendoza, is evidently a form of the same 



