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zontalia, aurantiaca, cochleariformia, ungue valde canaliculate concave, 

 marginibus ubique crispatis et sublaceratis, utrinsecus dorso in area 

 angusta mediana longitudinali et pilis brevissimis et ciliis strictis basi 

 bullatis vestita; squama a dorso visa circumscriptione urceolata, saccate 

 inflata, superne subangustior et trialata, alis raptim elevatis, apicem versus 

 sensim decrescentibus, pilis circiter ad medium alarum egredientibus, 

 apice laminulas gerentibus, apice profunde incisa, lobis marginibus incras- 

 satis, incurvatis ; staminodia 2 inferiora, squamam vix superantia, supra 

 basin c. y\ longitudinis geniculato-inflexa, extus ad geniculum appendicu- 

 lata, appendicibus apice ciliatis, intus papillosa, supra medium dense papil- 

 losa, papillis retroversis, summo subulato-attenuata ; ovarium superum, 

 intra lobos calycis spinis longis, laevibus, basi bullatis, densissime vestitum, 

 3-valve, valvis cum placentis alternantibus ; placentae tres ; ovula numero- 

 sissima, multiseriata, horizontalia ; semina oblonga, obtusa, testa fusca, 

 eleganter reticulata. 



S. Patagonia, Puerto Camerones, on bushy hills. 



(n) L. BERGI Hieron. 



In Boll. Acad. Nac. Cordoba, iii (1879), 349. 

 N. Patagon., near Rio Negro (Stuckert). 



P. 587 : 



L. FILICIFOLIA Poepp. 



Should be deleted, not belonging to the flora of Patagonia. The state- 

 ment of its occurrence at the head of Rio Chico (of Rio Sta. Cruz) refers 

 to Loasa argentina Urb. et Gilg. 



L. MULTIFIDA Gay. 

 Should be eliminated ; not known from Patagonia. 



L. MURALIS Gris. 



Macloskie's statement of the occurrence of this species, or, more prop- 

 erly, of a variety of it, is based on the reports of the Rio Negro Expedi- 

 tion. Lorentz and Niederlein have, it is true, enumerated this species 

 in the report of the botanical results of that expedition, but with hesi- 

 tation. They emphasize the fact that the plant which they had in view 

 belongs possibly to the gen. Blumenbachia, showing a certain affinity 

 to B. multifida Hook, and B. insignis Schrad., and that its true place 



