MACLOSKIE LOASACE/E. 589 



lobes subdentate, half as long as the petals. Flowers small, the scales 

 bilobed, 3-appendaged above externally. 



(Chili); S. Patagon., in valley of Rio Gallegos, by O. Nordenskj.; 

 steppes of West Patagon., by Duse"n. 



3. SCYPHANTHUS Don. 



Twining, pubescent herbs, the hairs not stinging, with opposite, 2-3- 

 pinnatisect leaves ; and axillary, sessile, yellow flowers, having 5 saccate 

 petals, alternating with smaller, cucullate, 3-awned scales; 10 staminodes, 

 many stamens, a long narrow, stipe-like ovary, with few, small seeds. 



Species 2, Chili, often at great elevations. 



S. ELEGANS Don. (Grammatocarpus volubilis Presl.). 



Leaves petiolate, scabrous, bipinnatifid ; the segments linear, obtuse. 

 Calyx-lobes ovate-obtuse, two thirds as long as the petals. Capsule linear, 

 like a peduncle. 



(Chili; called "Mongita," Indian name, "Fues"; cult, in European 

 gardens) ; N. Patagon. 



(Fig. in Eng. & Prantl, iii, 6a, p. 117, L. M.) 



4. CAJOPHORA Presl. 



Low or twining herbs, mostly with stinging hairs ; and decussate, often 

 crowded leaves. Flowers yellow, white, or red, rarely axillary. Petals 

 mostly valvate, plane or cymbiform. Nectaries and staminodes of Loasa. 

 Ovary inferior, with 3-5 parietal placenta. Capsule obconic to clavate or 

 globular, straight or twisted. 



Species 50, in Andes, Brazil and Argentina. 



Fig. in Eng. & Prantl, iii, 6a, p. 120. 



i. C. CORONATA Hook. & Arn. (sub Blumenbachia by H. & S.). 



Stem short, prostrate, to 30-60 cm. long. Leaves opposite, petiolate, 

 pinnate and the pinnae bipinnatifid with toothed, ultimate lobes. Peduncles 

 axillary, 30 cm. long. Calyx-lobes 5, pinnatifid with linear segments ex- 

 ceeding the 3-merous ovary. Furrows of the fruit nearly straight. 



(Chili, high on the Andes) ; Patagon. 



