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PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I BOTANY. 



ASARCA ODORATISSIMA Poepp. et Endl. 



Poepp. & Endlicher, Nov. Gen. et Spec., II, p. 13, tab. 118; Reiche, 

 1. c., p. 17, tab. I, fig. 3. (Described sub Chlorcea, Macl., p. 323.) 



A. BRACHYCHILA Phil. 



S. Chili ; N. Patagonia near Lago Nahuel-huapi. According to Reiche, 

 1. c., p. 15, this is identical with Asarca commersonii (described in Macl., 

 p. 322, no. 4). 



Add Macl., p. 321 : 



A. APPENDICULATA Phil. 



50-100 cm., with leafy base ; leaves 5-6, oblong. Dorsal sepal, 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute, concave ; labellum with sub-quadrate side-lobes,, 

 and 2 minute glands. 



Central Patagonia, in the andine district ; Chili. 



A. COMMERSONII Hook. fil. Kraenzl. Orchid., p. 41. 



Syn. A. brachychila Phil; Chlorcea Commersonii Bronyn. Described 

 in Macl., p. 322. 



Falkland Ids.; S. Fuegia; Magellan; Patagonia, in the district of 

 deciduous beeches, for instance at Lago Argentine, Lago Viedma, Lago 

 Buenos Aires, Lago Fontana, upper Rio Aysen ; probably it occurs still 

 further north. 



This species, at least in Fuegia and Patagonia, is an ombrophil plant 

 and does not grow here outside the forest. 



A. GLANDULIFERA Poepp. & Endl. 



60 cm., the base covered by dry leaf-rosettes ; no fresh leaves at 

 anthesis. Spike many-flowered, 22 cm. long; bracts acuminate. Dorsal 

 sepal oblong, with rounded tip ; laterals with cochlear point ; petals 

 obtuse. Gynostemium with base excavated, 2-glandular. Chili ; Central 

 Patagonia, on moist ground by Rio Chubut, Rio Carren-leofu, and Rio 

 Chico. 



A. KINGH Hook. fil. Kraenzlin Orchid, p. 42. 



Syn. Chlorcea kingii (Hook, fil.) Macl. Described Macl., p. 322. 

 Magellan. 



