ROWLEE: PLANTS FROM SOUTHERN PATAGONIA Sit 
IRIDACEAE 
27. SISYRINCHIUM CHILENSE Hook. Curt. Bot. Mag. pl. 2786. 
1827. . 
28. S. yuncEUM E. Meyer; Pres], Rel. Haenk. 1: 118. 1830. 
29. S. stRIATUM Sm. Icon. Pict. pl. 9. 1780. . 
30. S. rrmpIFoLIuM H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1: 324. 1815. 
31. SOLENOMELUs SisyrincutuM (Griseb.) Pax; Engler & Prantl, 
Nat. Pflanzenfam. 2°: 152. 1888. 
Lechlera Sisyrinchium Griseb.; Lechler, Pl. Chil. Exsic. 2966. 
1853-1855. 
Having every appearance of a Sisyrinchium except the elon- 
gated ovary. 
32. SYMPHYOSTEMON BIFLORUS (Thunb.) Dusén, Svenska Exped. 
till Magell. 3: 203. 1900. : 
Gladiolus biflorus Thunb. Diss. Glad. 10. 1784. 
33. S. Lycxnotmr Dusén, Svenska Exped. till Magell. 3: 204. 
pl. 10, f. 4-7. 1900. 
BURMANNIACEAE 
34. ARACHNITES UNIFLORA Phil. Bot. Zeit. 28: 217. 1864. 
This is the only plant of this family growing outside tropical 
or subtropical regions except the species of 7 hismia discovered 
recently by Pfeiffer* near Chicago. Our plant, furthermore, is 
the only vascular saprophyte in south temperate South America. 
It was first found by Philippi in the Province of Valdivia, Chile, in 
1864. In transmitting it to Professor Schlechtendahl, Dr. Phil- 
lippi made the following observation: “Arachnites uniflora Ph. 
A new orchid genus from Valdivia. A few weeks ago, in my 
Property in S. Juan, my son discovered a wonderful (to me at 
least) orchid, a few hundred paces from the dwelling, and under 
the shade of a macqui-bush (Aristotelia Macqut). Unfortunately 
the large number of specimens which had been collected were 
destroyed in the fire which on November second laid my posses- 
sions in ashes in a half-hour. Only through a lucky accident a 
few escaped, and these have not been well enough preserved to 
allow me to make out distinctly the structure of the gynostemium, 
* Bot. Gaz. §7: 122. 1914. 
