MACLOSKIE: REVISION OF FLORA PATAGONICA. 2 oi 



Fam. 92. ASCLEPIADACE^E. Macl., p. 663. 

 P. 663, line 9, add the genus : 



ELYTROPUS Muell. 



Carpels immersed in fleshy disk, with epigynous lobes. Leaves oppo- 

 Flowers bracted, solitary in the axils. Corolla broad campanula* 



tube, i suun looes, overlapping dextrorsely, scarcely c 



T fT CnS , mC ^ ded; SCedS a P icall y comose. Peduncles mostly 

 i-flowered, bracted. No glands in calyx; no annulus on stigma 

 Climbing shrub. Chili. 



E. CHILENSIS (Hook. & Am., sub Echites). 



Stem twisting, rusty-pubescent; leaves 5-10 cm. long, ovate, slightly 

 acuminate, short-petioled, subcordate, hairy. Peduncles axillary as long 



the flower; bracts numerous, small, hairy, imbricate, ovate; calyx-lobes 

 erect, lanceo ate ; corolla with tube as long as the calyx, with ovate lobes 

 otamens included. 



Chili ; N. W. Patagonia, by Rio Renihue. 



P. 664 : 



TURRIGERA LESSONII K. Sch. 



Is not known from Patagonia. 



P. 665: 



MELINIA CANDOLLEANA (H. & A.) Dene. 



^ Ought probably to be omitted. It certainly does not occur at Rio Sta 

 ruz, as stated by Macloskie, and scarcely occurs in Patagonia 



P. 665, after line 20, add the genera Asclepiadacea: 



5- ARAUJIA Broth. (Lagena Fourn.). 



Winding shrubs with leaves rather mealy; and cymose, paired inflores- 

 ice. Corolla with long tube, salverform; glabrous or mealy 

 Brazil. 



I. A. CYNANCH^E. 



Anthers ending in an inflexed membrane, polliniferous from below the 

 the stigma. Pollinia solitary in the thecas, pendulous. Corolla- 

 le, often contracted upwards, the limb broader, 5 -cleft. Corolla- 



