578 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: BOTANY. 



EUERYPHIA PATAGONICA Speg. 



A tree, 10 m. high, with fastigiate branches, and densely hispid-villous 

 branchlets. Leaves simple, decussate, short-petiolate, long-lanceolate, 

 basally rounded, scarcely cordate, attenuate upwards, acute, irregularly 

 serrate, the teeth acute-cuspidate-mucronate ; subcoriaceous, glabrous on 

 the upper surface, cinerascent on the lower, with villous nerves. Flowers 

 solitary, long-peduncled ; sepals pubescent, stamens numerous, glabrous. 



N. Patagon., in woods near Lago Nahuel-huapi. 



Family 68. HYPERICACE^E. St. John's-wort Family. 



Herbs or shrubs, with opposite or rarely whorled, simple, exstipulate 

 leaves, pellucid-punctate or black-dotted. Flowers regular, perfect, 5-4- 

 merous, hypogynous, with many stamens, often in sets of 3 or 5 ; and 

 with 1-7-, mostly 3-celled ovary, with as many styles, and numerous seeds, 

 without endosperm. 



Species 280, chiefly in warm and temperate climates. (In Eng. and 

 Prantl, iii, 6, p. 205, they are made a subfamily of Guttiferae.) 



HYPERICUM Linn. 



Flowers chiefly cymose, yellow, 5-merous. Ovary i -celled, with 3-5 

 parietal placentas. 



Species 210, widely distributed. 



H. CONNATUM Lam. 



Stems suffruticose, terete. Leaves deltoid, perfoliate, obtuse, punctate 

 underneath, venous-reticulated, inflated at the margin. Sepals lanceolate, 

 acute. Stigmas capitate. 



(Argentina ; Montevideo) ; N. Patagon. 



Family 69. FRANKENIACE^E. 



Herbs or undershrubs, with stems jointed at the nodes, and decussate 

 leaves, often involute and heath-like. Flowers in terminal or axial leafy 

 dichotomies, pinkish ; regular, hypogynous, heterochlamydeous. Calyx- 

 leaves united, 4~7-lobed. Petals 4-7, not united, often having a lamellar 



