148 



PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: BOTANY. 



ESCALLONIA BRITTENIANA Rendle. 



Shrub, lower branches glabrescent, sparsely glandulose, densely leaved. 

 Leaves glabrous, obovate or elliptical, basicuneate, serrate. Racemes 

 leafy, often 5-y-flowered ; terminal on branches; pedicels short; calyx- 

 tube ribless, limbs triangular, acute; petals erect, 3 times longer than 

 calyx, linear-spathulate, limb recurved. Disk cupuliform, crenate. Style 

 entire ; fruit glabrous ; stigma capitate, 2-lobed. 



Slopes of Mt. Buenos Aires. 



P. 464 : 



E. VIRGATA Pers. (E. STRICTA Rem.). 



This is figured in Plate XV (inaccurately lettered, should be ESCALLONIA). 

 S. Patagonia, low slopes near Lago Buenos Aires. 



E. CHONOTICA Phil. 



Glabrous ; leaves oblong, equally acuminate both ways, appressed-serru- 

 late; veiny. Flowers in racemes from subterminal axils. Calyx-teeth 

 very short, acuminate. Petals spathulate-linear. Style long. 



W. Patagon., Chonos Archipelago ; Rio Palena. 



E. FONKI Ph. 



Glabrous, leaves obovate, mostly obtuse, cuneate, scarcely veined, 

 acutely incised-toothed, entire at base ; floral leaves lanceolate. Flowers 

 in axils at tips of branches, in a short 5-8-flowered raceme, with short 

 pedicels. Calyx-teeth triangular lanceolate; petals linear-spathulate. 

 Style long. 



Patagon., near Lago Nahuel-huapi : S. Chili. 



E. LITTORALIS Phil. Macl., p. 462. 

 Probably not occurring in our district. 



E. RAHMERI Phil. Macl., p. 463. 



Should perhaps be deleted; probably synonymous with E. macrantha 

 Hook, et Arn. 



E. ULIGINOSA Phil. Macl., p. 464. 



Should be deleted. The description given by Macloskie refers to Cyno- 

 glossum religiosum (Phil.) Ok. 



