MACLOSKIE: LEGUMINOS/G. 519 



overlapping the other parts. Legumes linear, 9-i2-jointed, bristly glan- 

 dular. A bush with viscid leaves. (Perhaps P. muricatum.] 



By Rio Gallegos (Barnum Brown). Patagon., along the coast south of 

 Rio Sta. Cruz. 



30. PATAGONIUM RETUSUM (Griseb.) Reiche. 



Unarmed; not racemed. Diffuse undershrubs, 10 cm. high, green, 

 sparsely pilose, with ascending, leafy branches. Leaves pinnate, with 

 ovate, acutish stipules, as long as the short petiole. Leaflets 7-5 (-3) 

 pairs, very small, cuneate-obovate, retuse, plicate with midnerve, gla- 

 brous. Ped^incle i -flowered from the upper axils. Calyx campanulate, 

 its teeth unequal, pubescent. Standard twice as long, puberulous out- 

 side towards base. Ovary tomentose ; ovules several. 



(Chili.) S. Patagon. (Hatcher. The peduncles are longer than the 

 flower, and bear 14 flowers ; the calyx and tomentose legumes are cov- 

 ered with black hairs ; the legumes at length urceolate.) 



31. P. SALICORNIOIDES Speg. 



Unarmed. Cespitose, perennial, very fleshy and glabrous, with crowded 

 leaves. Stipules subconnately sheathing, with ovate lobes ; petiole short ; 

 leaflets 3, subterete, obovate. Apical branchlets, with solitary, sessile 

 flowers. Calyx-teeth linear, obtuse, as long as the tube ; corolla golden, 

 twice as long as the calyx. Pod i-3-jointed, naked, glabrous. Habit 

 nearly of Salicornia. 



S. Patagon., in rocky fissures near Lago Argentine ; in rocks at Sierra 

 de los Baguales. 



32. P. SUBTERRANEUM (CloS.) O. KtZC. 



Armed shrub, dwarf, with thick, tubercled, blackish, subterranean stems. 

 Branches subterranean and subcorymbose. Leaves cespitose, crowded, 

 scarcely emerging from the ground, appressed, hoary-pubescent; leaflets 

 2-3 pairs and a terminal, small, obovate-oblong, mucronate. Flowers 

 few, very short, peduncled, immersed in the leaves. Calyx 3-cleft, the 2 

 lateral broad segments each 2-toothed. Corolla twice as long as the calyx. 

 Pod exceeding the calyx, 4-jointed, silky. 



(Chili) ; Patagon. 



33. P. SUFFOCATUM (Hook. fil.). 



Unarmed, low, cespitose shrub, silvery-silky. Leaves 2-3-foliolate, the 

 leaflets obovate, conduplicate, enclosing the solitary, subsessile flowers. 



