MACLOSKIE I LEGUMINOS^E. 



525 



2-4-flowered, glabrous, with short pedicels. Calyx companulate, its teeth 

 broad-ovate, shorter than the tube, acute. Ovary glabrous. 

 Patagon. 



VlCIA MORENONIS BURMEISTERI O. KtZC. (?). 



Leaflets i-pair. 

 Patagon. 



9. V. NIGRICANS Hook. & Arn. 



Pubescent. Stem tetragonal. Leaflets 9-10, oblong-elliptical, obtuse, 

 alternate ; the cirrhi divided. Stipules semisagittate. Peduncles twice 

 as long as the leaf, many-flowered, the flowers crowded. Calyx-teeth 2, 

 the upper obsolete, the lowest subulate, the mid-one exceeding the tube. 

 Stigma bearded. 



(Chili) ; N. Patagon., near Lago Nahuel-huapi. 



IO. V. PATAGONICA Hook. f. 



Sparsely pilose. Stem erect, angulate, but scarcely winged, sparingly 

 branching. Stipules semisagittate, sometimes toothed, their apex and 

 lobule acute. Leaves suberect ; petiole rather short, angled, with a simple 

 terminal tendril. Leaflets 1-2 pairs, alternate and opposite, obovate-ob- 

 long, entire, obtuse or retuse, or toothed, silky on both sides. Peduncles 

 exceeding the petioles, silky, i-2-flowered. Calyx silky, one third the 

 erect standard. 



(See note on V. graminea.] 



S. Patagon., by Rio Chico; Magellan, E. Fuegia. (Dusen.) 



V. PATAGONICA DEPAUPERATA. 



S. Patagon., near Rio Deseado, and Isla Pavo by Sta. Cruz. 



II. V. SERICELLA SpCg. 



(Cracca.] Perennial, silky, low, prostrate. Leaves shorter than the 

 internodes. Stipules ovate. CirrJms simple. Leaflets mostly 2 pairs, 

 oblanceolate, acutish both ways. Flowers of mid-size, mostly in pairs in 

 the upper axils. Standard blue, thrice as long as the calyx, and longer 

 than the whitish wings. Ovary glabrous. 



N. Patagon., valley of Lago Blanco; in Sierra de los Baguales. 



