512 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: BOTANY. 



tary or 3-6-racemed; the peduncle exceeding the leaves, pubescent. 

 Calyx hairy, green, with red ; its teeth linear, obtuse, long. Corolla 

 orange, little-exserted ; vexillum dorsally pubescent. 



S. Patagon., by Rio Sta. Cruz, and Gulf of San Jorge ; dry hills near 



Nafofo-cahuellu. 



3. PATAGONIUM APHANANTHUM Speg. 



Dasycarpum. Low, unarmed perennial, all hoary-hispidulous. Stems 

 many, laxly hemispherical, subcespitose. Leaves small, crowded towards 

 the ends of the branches, the base of the petiole connate with the stipules. 

 and folioliferous above the middle. Leaflets imparipinnate, 4 pairs and 

 an odd one, obovate or oblanceolate, spreading, pilose-hispidulous. 



Flowers very small and difficult to see, solitary in the axils and cernu- 

 ous on moderate pedicels. Calyx 5-cleft beyond the middle.lobes acute, 

 hoary-rough. Corolla lutescent, vexillum excepted, glabrous. Legumes 

 very small, 2-3-jointed, basal joint glabrous, others rough. 



Height 3-5 cm. 



Chubut, at Teka-choique. 



4. P. BORONIOIDES (Hook. f.). 



Leiocarpum. Unarmed; racemed; suffruticose, glabrous, but with 

 viscid, wart-like glands. Stem 45 cm. high ; branches ascending, terete, 

 articulate. Leaves long on thick petioles, ending in a cirrhus, and with 

 inconspicuous stiptdes. Leaflets 10-15 pairs, small, sessile, broad-ovate, 

 toothed, coriaceous. Racemes lateral and terminal, obtuse, the bracteoles 

 short. Calyx broad-ovate, shortly 5-cleft, one third as long as the gla- 

 brous standard. Flowers 8 mm. long, yellow, streaked brown. Legume 

 3-jointed, glandulous. 



Patagon., Rio Chubut; Puerto Deseado; Cape Fairweather; Upper 

 Valley of Rio Gallegos (Nordenskj.); W. Patagon., by Lago Toro 

 (Dusen); E. Fuegia (Ansorge). Not in S. Fuegia. 



5- P. CANDIDUM (Hook. f.). 



Unarmed; racemed, frutescent ; white, with fine, appressed tomentum. 

 Paniculately branched upwards, the branches terete. Leaves sparse, pin- 

 nate, on thickish, canaliculate petioles ; with small, deciduous stipules. 

 Leaflets 3-5 pairs, oval-oblong, rounded at both ends, coriaceous, entire, 

 nerveless. Racemes lax, terminal, pendulous on short pedicels, bracteo- 



