238 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: BOTANY. 



contigui, tota corolla aurea, extus minute puberula, intus glabra, labium 

 superius 2 mm. longum 4 latum, inferius I cm. longum, 5-6 cm. latum. 

 Exeunte Octobri. 



Patagonia, Territorio del Chubut, valle de la Laguna Blanca (Kos- 

 lowsky, N. 98). 



Est planta elegantula typo potius chilensi quam argentino. Si folia 

 essent angustiora et lanata, confundere possis cum C. palence Phil., cui 

 magnitudine et habitu similis. Lobus inflexus labii inferioris major quam 

 in plerisque speciebus est et in anteriore parte, altius in sacculum labelli 

 decurrente, papillis onustus. Proxima certe C. filicaulis Clos non solum 

 in declivitate occidentali Andium, sed etiam orientali versus fines reipub- 

 licae Argentinae obviae. Differt ab ilia specie praecipue corolla longiore 

 quam lata, labio superiore calycem bene superante, limbo inflexo magno, 

 ceterum foliis margine integro. Inserenda esset in monographia nostra 

 sub N. 40 a post C. filicaulem. (Fr. Kranzlin.) 



Stem short, few-leaved ; leaves crowded, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 minutely pilose on both sides, attenuate to a short petiole ; scapes tenuous, 

 mostly leafless, in their whole length covered by papilliform hairs ; racemes 

 few-flowered, dichasial ; bracts minute, oblong ; the segments of the calyx 

 broad-oblong, obtuse or the lowest nearly orbicular; corolla yellow, 

 puberulous outside, glabrous inside with upper lip nearly twice as long as 

 the calyx, cucullate ; lower lip obovate, obtuse, subinflexed, open nearly 

 to the middle; the inflexed lobe large, at the anterior part (viz., at the 

 cucullate part of the lip) covered with minute hemispherical papillae; 

 stamens very short with parallel cells. 



Add Macl., p. 719: 



STEMODIA CHILENSIS Benth. Bot. Register. 



Chili ; N. Patagonia, Rio Negro near Carmen de Patagones (fide 

 Spegazzini). 



Erect, very viscous, hairy, the leaves oblong or lanceolate, acute, un- 

 equally serrate, basi-cordate, amplexicaul, auricled, the spike terminal, 

 leafy, at length elongate, interrupted. Calyx-segments lanceolate-subu- 

 late, the corolla half as long again as the calyx, the lower lip glabrous. 

 Perennial. 



Chili. 



