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glabrous, gradually acuminate, ending with a rather long, hyaline, fragile 

 point, sheaths not much broader than the blade, covered with long white 

 hairs ; peduncles inserted in the axils of the uppermost leaves and shorter 

 than these; slender, glabrous, naked, I -flowered; bracts ovate, acute, 

 membranaceous glabrous, broadly hyaline-margined, hairy inside at base ; 

 attached close to the flowers ; sepals broad-ovate, concave, acute, scarious, 

 glabrous, entire, subcarinate, with broad, hyaline margin ; corolla glabrous, 

 with tube of the same length as the bracts ; the lobes dependent, broad- 

 ovate, acute, scarious, more than half as long as the tube ; capsule oblong- 

 ovate, circumscissile below the middle. 



26. P. UNIGLUMIS Wallr. 



Herb with woody, caespitose rhizome, in brown scales, and leaves, linear, 

 acute, entire, silky-woolly below, but not bearded. Peduncle i -flowered, 

 as long as the leaves. Bracts ovate, glabrous. Petals ovate, mucronu- 

 late. Ovary globose, 2-celled, 6-seeded. 



S. Patagon., at Lago Argentine, in the mountains (fide A. B. Rendle). 



Fam. 1 06. RUBIACE^E. Macl., p. 738. 

 Add p. 740: 



CRUKSHANKSIA Lechler. (Solenomelus Miers.) 



Calyx-leaves separate, yellow. Staminal tube glandular-woolly. Fruits 

 linear; stigma not divided. Leaves small, basal, or nearly so. Spathe 

 solitary or several, long stalked. 



P. 740 : 



NERTERA DEPRESSA Banks et Sol. 



Specimens from Concepcion, Chili, have berries bright red, of a larger 

 form, once called Cunina-sanfuentes. 



GALIUM Tournef. 

 P. 741 : 



G. APARINE L. Subsp. SPURIUM (L.). 



P. 744 : 



G. SPURIUM L. (perhaps a var. of G. apanne L.). 



Stem decumbent, retrorsely aculeate-scabrid, on the angles. Leaves 

 in whorls of 6, lanceolate, mucronate, carinate, retrorsely aculeate. 

 Peduncles many-flowered, longer than the leaves, in fruit glabrous. 



