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3. B. LUZULA (Speg.) Macl. (Luzula patagonica Speg.) (PI. Pat. 



austr. n. 366.) 



Perennial, with fistulous stem, leafy at base, with a single leaf midway, 

 and grassy, subglabrous, acute leaves at top. Inflorescence erect, with short, 

 thick spikes, rather remote. Tepals subequal, 3 external, lanceolate-awned, 

 3 internal, obtusely acute. Stamens 6, all antheriferous. Fruit trigonal- 

 ovate. 



Patagonia, through its dry parts from Rio Chubut to Rio Gallegos, 

 varying in height, and in the perigonial lobes having broad or narrow 

 margins, and in the varying length of the pedicels. 



B. LUZULA ANGUSTILOBA (Speg.). 



Larger than the species, the pedicels equalling or surpassing the bracts, 

 and having larger perigonium, its albescent tube with 5 green vittae, and 

 its lobes very narrowly linear without white margins. 



4. B. PATAGONIA (Baker sub Milla}. 



Leaves 4-5, synanthic, filiform, 15-22 cm. long. Scape i -flowered, 

 about 12. cm. long; valves of spathe 2, erect, united at base. Pedicels 

 15 mm. long; perianth 22 mm., pale lilac; its segments lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, erect, twice as long as the tube. Ovary sessile ; style 6 mm. long. 



Patagonia. 



5. B. PCEPPIGIANA (Gay sub Triteleia}. 



Leaves linear, plane, sometimes exceeding the 5-7-flowered scape. 

 Spathe 2(3-4)-valved, the valves lanceolate, hyaline-membranous, rose- 

 colored, as long as the pedicels, or shorter. Perianth-lobes oblong-obtuse, 

 8 by 3 mm. Tube as long as the lobes. 



Patagon., by the mouth of Rio Chubut. (Dusen.) 



6. B. SPEGAZZINII (Speg.) Macl. (B. patagonica Speg. non Baker.) 



Bulb ovate. Leaves synanthic, narrow-linear, plicate, obtusish. Scape 

 slightly longer, erect, glabrous, slender, i -flowered, 2-bracted above. 

 Flower subtubular, its segments linear, acute, as long as the tube, white, 

 marked by a green line. Pedicel half as long as the flower. Plant green 

 to violascent. 



Patagon., common by Rio Sta. Cruz and Golfo de San Jorge. 



