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late at their base. Calyx silky, its segments subacute. Standard twice 

 as long, glabrous. 



Leaves 18 mm., long; leaflets 4-8 mm., margins recurved. 



Patagon., on the E. Coast. 



6. PATAGONIUM CANESCENS (A. Gray, sub Streptodesmia}. 



Armed by spiny branches and panicles; hoary, intricately branching 

 undershrub. Leaves even-pinnate. Leaflets 4-6, oblong or ovate. Pedi- 

 cels short, curved. Corolla yellow, not twice as long as the calyx. 

 Legume 3-6-jointed, becoming spirally twisted; its joints 2-valved, . i- 

 seeded, falling separately. 



N. Patagon., Rio Negro to Chubut. 



-7. P. CARNOSUM (Dusen). 



Unarmed ; not racemed, low, glabrous except the flowers. Stem 15 

 cm. high, thick, woody, branching, leafless below ; sheathed by dark, 

 rugose stipules ; the stipules connate, fleshy, with short lobes. Leaves 

 crowded, short-petioled, trifoliolate, fleshy, clavate, with short, fugacious 

 tip. Flowers terminal, solitary, orange. Calyx campanulate, equally 5- 

 cleft to the middle. Corolla 2-3-times as long, its standard suborbicular, 

 white-pilose, enclosing the wings and keel. Legume 2-4-jointed, tuber- 

 cular, white-pilose, bearing long, recurved remains of the style. 



(" Like P. salicornioides of Speg., but differing by the tubercular joints 

 of the fruit") 



E. Fuegia (Ansorge). A steppe plant. 



8. P. CONFERTUM (Hook. & Arn.) Reiche. 



Unarmed; racemed ; pinnate. Leaflets mostly 1 3, obovate-oblong, 

 retuse, mucronate. Raceme terminal, many-flowered, with black glands. 

 Pedicels 1-2 cm., deflexed in fruit. Legumes 3-4-jointed, rough-glan- 

 dular. 



Chili. Patagonia, Port San Julian; "apparently widely diffused be- 

 tween 33 and 50 S. Lat., on both sides of S. Amer." J. D. Hooker. 



Patagon.; (M. & T.) 



9. P. FILIPES (A. Gray). 



Unarmed; racemed; pinnate. Slender annual, pubescent, glandular, 

 erect, branching. Leaflets 11-13, on ly 2 ~3 mm - l n g ova ^' obtuse, gray- 



