96 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS! BOTANY. 



SYMPHYOSTEMON Miers. 

 S. BIFLORUS (Thunb.) Bak. Macl., p. 318. 



Macloskie remarks (Macl., p. 961) that this species should have the 

 name of S. odoratissimus (Lindl.) Miers, but this is not correct. Thun- 

 berg was the first to describe the plant, viz., under the name of gladiolus 

 biflorus. According to the international rules of botanical nomenclature 

 the name of this species should be S. biflorus. 



S. ODORATISSIMUS (Lindl.) Miers and S. patagonicus Speg. 



Macl., p. 319. 



Are to be deleted, both being synonymous with S. biflorus. 



S. SEGETHI (Phil.). Macl., p. 319. 

 Should be transferred to the following genus. 



SOLENOMELUS Miers. 



Rootstock short. Perianth tube slender, enlarging upwards ; tubes sub- 

 equal. Filaments united into a tube. Anthers short, connivent around 

 the style, which is ciliate-stigmatic only at its exsert vertex. Capsule 

 oblong. Flowers several in one spathe. 



Found in Chili. 



S. SEGETHI (Phil.) OK. 



Described Macl., p. 319, No. 5. 



Central Patagonia, upper Rio Nysen, between Teka-choigue and Rio 

 Carren-leofu ; S. Patagonia, Lago Argentine. 

 Add: 



Fam. 20 b. BURMANNIACE.E. Macl., p. 320. 



Differ from Orchidaceae in having stamens 3 or 6; style short, three- 

 branched; perianth nearly regular, its inner cycle smaller; leaves basal, 

 or merely small bracts. Herbs. 



ARACHNITES Pfitz. 



Flowers unisexual in reduction, the female flowers with minute stam- 

 inodes. . Posterior, outer segment long and bent forward ; other 5-linear, 

 sagittiform, spreading. Capsule globular, seeds minute. Root-parasite, 

 with tuber, and scale leaves. 



