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(Chili) ; Chubut, in dry hills near Nafofo-cahuellu. " Densely or laxly 

 cespitose. Seems not to differ from A. pulmnata O. Ktze." (Speg.) 



8. AC^ENA CUNEATA Hook and Arn. 



Silvery-silky. Stem short, decumbent. Leaflets 4-7 pairs, obliquely 

 obovate-cuneate, apically incise-dentate. Scape strong, with a few large, 

 remote flowers, or globose-spicate. Calyx-lobes silky outside. Stamens 

 2, with long filaments. Stigma depressed. Fruits obovate tetragonal, or 

 broad and then 2-seeded ; armed all round by glochidia. 



Magellan ; S. Patagon., by Rio Coy (J. B. Hatcher, Dec. 18, 1896). 

 Cape Gregory. 



9. A. EUPATORIA Cham. & Schl. 



Stem erect, spreading, silky-villous. Leaves oblong, oblique at base, 

 incised, serrate, silky beneath (resembling Potentilla anserina]. Flowers 

 2-staminate, small, sparse and glomerate in an interrupted spike. 



(S. Brazil) ; N. Patagon., in dry regions by Rio Negro. 



10. A. FUEGIANA Phil. 



Stem erect, 20 cm. high. Leaves coriaceous, crowded at its base, 

 Leaflets 4-6 pairs, cuneate ; the apex deeply 3-5-toothed. Lower flowers 

 in axils of small leaves ; the others in a dense, ovate head. Fruits pubes- 

 cent, angled, with 4-5 aculei on each angle ; these short, glochidiate. 



S. Patagon., by Rio Chico ; Fuegia. 



II. A. INTEGERRIMA Gill. 



All silky-woolly. Leaflets 4 pairs, ovate-oblong, entire, or apically 2- 

 3-toothed. Heads globose, one or a second remote. Fruit oval, with 

 projecting ridges having very short glochidia. Near A. splendens. 



(Cordilleras of Chili) ; S. Patagon., by Rio Chico and Sta. Cruz. 



12. A. KRAUSEI Phil. 



Plant smooth or pubescent, glaucous-green ; ascending. Leaflets 4-5 

 pairs, obovate, toothed ; smooth except underneath along the nerves. 

 Sepals pubescent. Anthers purple. Fruit obovoid-cuneiform, white-vil- 

 lous, with 4 unequal spines. 



Valdivia. 



