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Add Macl., p. 384: 



M. CUCUBALOIDES Fenzl. 



Lower leaves crowded, narrow lanceolate; cauline, few, smaller, and 

 long acuminate. Racemes few-flowered ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, densely 

 ciliate. Calyx-striae meeting above. Petals white, claws included, scarcely 

 dilated ; limbs small bifid, with 2 small appendages. Seeds dorsally 

 channeled. Chilian Andes. 



N. W. Patagonia, Rio Renihue; Chili. "Distribution imperfectly 

 known by me." D. 



M. MAGELLANICUM (DeSV.). 



Leaves all acuminate, puberulent, linear. Flowers solitary, terminal, 

 or in threes ; seeds tubercled. 

 P. 384 : 



M. CHUBUTENSE (Speg.) Speg. 



Central Patagonia, also on the mountains in the upper valley of Rio 

 Aysen at the height of about 800 m. The specimens were, erroneously, 

 determined by me as M. chilense. D. 



M. DENSIFOLIUM DuS. 



Perenne; rhizoma subterraneum, dense ramosum, ramis abbreviatis, 

 2.0-5.0 cm. altis, dense caespitosis, foliis emortuis depastis obtectis, 

 superne dense foliatis; folia parva lanceolata, c. 10 mm. longa et 2.0 

 mm. lata, suberecta, vel vetustiora subrecurvata, obtusa, primo pubes- 

 centia, marginibus ciliolatis, mox glabrata, epetiolata, plana, nervo 

 mediano robusto, in latere inferiore folii fortiter prominente, lateralibus 

 tenuioribus, vaginis submembranaceis, marginibus ciliatis, inferne con- 

 natis ; scapi terminales, graciles, c. 6.0 cm. alti et i mm. diam., striati, 

 inferne pubescentes, superne glanduloso-pubescentes, binodosi, foliis binis 

 ad nodos dispositis, glanduloso-pubescentibus, parvis, c. 6.0 mm. longis, 

 sublanceolatis, basi connatis ; flores erecti, solitarii ; calyx campanulate 

 inflatus, c. 12.0 mm. longus et 10.0 mm. diam., circiter ad */$ longitudinis 

 lobatus, lobis semiellipticis, submucronatis, glanduloso-pubescens, striis 

 15, fuscoviridibus, haud anastomosantibus, trinis prope apicem loborum 

 conjunctis exaratus ; corolla paullo excedens, rosea (?) ; petala unguibus 

 e basi angusta sursum valde ampliata, auriculis fere nullis, appendicibus 

 rotundatis, plerumque subemarginatis, laminis c. 4.0 mm. longis, apice 

 rotundatis, profunde emarginatis ; styli 5 ; capsula sessilis. 



