Cryptantha. 29 



Subgenus I. Ar chaeo cryptantha. 

 Archaeocryptantha Brand, nov. subgen. 



Sect. 1. Geocarya. 



Oeocarya Johnston in Contr. Gray Herb. LXXVIII. (1927) 63 (sect.). 



A. Limbus corollae 3Y2 — 8 mm latus. 



a. Cincinni bracteati. 



a. Nuculae basales 2 — 2Y2 mm longae 1. C. Volckmannii. 



ß. Nuculae basales 4 — 5 mm longae 2. G. mvolucrata. 



b. Cincinni ebracteati. 



a. Limbus corollae 6 — 8 mm latus 3. G. doliehophylla. 



ß. Limbus corollae 3 l fa — 5 mm latus. 



I. Nuculae superiores solitariae, rarius binae. 



1. Nuculae superiores 2*/2 mm longae 4. G. Bridgesii. 



2. Nuculae superiores 3 — 4 mm longae .... 5. G. macrocalyx. 

 II. Nuculae superiores 2 — 4 in quoque calyce. 



1. Nuculae basales minores quam terminales . . 6. G. Buchtienii. 



2. Nuculae basales maiores quam terminales. 



* Nuculae basales Z x /i mm longae 7. C. phacelioides. 



** Nuculae basales 4Y2 mm longae. 



f Nuculae superiores heteromorphae ... 8. C. linearis. 

 ff Nuculae superiores conformes 9. C. talquina. 



B. Limbus corollae I — 3y 4 mm latus. 



a. Limbus corollae 3 — 3V4 mm latus. 



a. Nuculae basales 2 in quoque calyce. 



I. Nuculae basales 5 — 7 mm longae 1 0. C. virens. 



II. Nuculae basales 4 mm longae 1 \ . G. dimorpha. 



ß. Nuculae basales solitariae 12. C. candelabrum. 



b. Limbus corollae 1 — 2 mm latus. 



ct. Nuculae basales 3Y2 — ^A mm l° n gae. 



I. Sepala 3 mm longa KZ. G. fallax. 



IL Sepala 1 i / i mm longa 1 4. G. aprica. 



ß. Nuculae basales 2 mm longae 15. G. campylotricha. 



1. C. Volckmannii (Phil.) Johnston in Contr. Gray Herb. LXXVIII. (1927) 66. 

 — Eritriehium Volckmannii Phil, in Anal. Univ. Chile XVIII. (1861) 54 et in Linnaea 

 XXXIII. (1864) 188. — Eritriehium chrysanthum Phil.! in Linnaea 1. c. 192, teste John- 

 ston. — G. ehrysantha Reiche in Anal. Univ. Chile CXXI. (1908) 815; Fl. Chile V. (1910) 

 220. — Annua hispida aureo-sericea. Caules complures 10 — 30 cm alti ramosi. Folia 

 sparsa alterna obtusa linearia, 1 — 3 cm longa, 1 — 3 mm lata. Inflorescentiae terminales 

 brevissime bifidae capituliformes basi bracteatae; flores cleistogami ad basin caulis sub 

 lente tantum conspicui 1 mm longi, i / 2 mm lati, in calyce 2 mm longo occulti; flores 

 superiores sessiles; sepala linearia longe hispida; corolla alba tubo brevi et lato, fauce 

 aurantiaca, limbo 2 — 5 mm diametro; fornices indistincti. Nuculae basales (Fig. 2 (?) 

 1 vel 2 in calyce 3 mm longo, quem gynobasis elongata cum stylo brevissimo multo 

 superat, brunneae ovoideae 2 vel 3 mm longae irregulariter et grosse rugosae, marginibus 

 acute tuberculatae, a lateribus compressae, sulco angusto laterali. Nuculae superiores 

 (mihi non visae) 1 — 2 in quoque calyce ovatae, 2 — 2V2 mm longae, minute et dense 

 tuberculato-granulatae, in calyce fructifero 3 — 4 mm longo. 



Chile: Coquimbo: Huanta, 4000 m ü.M. (nach Johnston); Cordillere von Illapel 

 (Philippi). 



2. C. involucrata (Phil.) Reiche in Anal. Univ. Chile CXXI. (1908) 830; Fl. Chile V. 

 (1910) 235; Johnston! 1. c. (1927) 65. — Eritriehium mvolueratum Phil, in Anal. Univ. 



