33^ PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS ; BOTANY. 



6. MYZODENDRON PUNCTULATUM (Banks) Sol. 



Leafless; the branches with projecting disks depressed in their center. 

 Staminal flowers in catkins ; stamens 2. Achenes 4 mm. long ; plumes 

 about 10 times as long. 



Common everywhere in Patagon. By Hatcher on Nothofagus betu- 

 loidesMirb. at Punta Arenas; in fruit Feb. 18, 1897. Fuegia, passim, on 

 Nothofagus antarctica. Staaten I. (Plate XIV.) 



7- M. QUADRIFLORUM DC. 



Leaves small, broad, obtuse. Flowering branches long, bearing i- 

 leaved branchlets, alternating; each branchlet 3-5-flowered. Achenes 

 linear ; plumes slender, with brown, naked top. 



S. Patagon. f Magellan ; Staaten I. ; S. Fuegia, Ushuaia, Navarino (rather 

 rare). 



8. M. RIOQUINOENSE O. KtZC. 



Leafless, 20 cm. long, much branching, all brownish-yellow. Branches 

 terete, suberect, everywhere punctulate-warty. Spikes sessile, dense, 10- 

 flowered, scarcely i cm. long. Bracts cup-like, very remote in the upper, 

 sterile branches. Seta 3, 3 times exceeding the fruit;, barbate-pilose, the 

 hairs one third as long as the seta. Ovary cylindrical ; stigma sessile, 

 conical, scarcely 3-lobed. Male plant unknown. Parasite on Beech. 



(Chili) ; Chubut, woods along Carren-leofu, and by Rio Aysen in W. 

 Patagon. 



Family 28. SANTALACE^:. Sandalwood Family. 



Mostly herbs or shrubs, with entire, exstipulate leaves and greenish, 

 apetalous flowers, perfect or diclinous. Calyx adnate to the ovary, 5-6 

 lobed, bearing as many stamens. Ovary i-locular; ovules 2-3, pendu- 

 lous ; style simple. Drupe or nut, having i seed, with large endosperm. 



Species 250, chiefly tropical. 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 



A. Tube of the more or less epigynous perianth not produced above the ovary, or produced and 



then covered by the disk. Fruits drupaceous. 

 b. Disk entire, or only ventricose-lobed. 



c. Flowers 4-merous, in 1-3*5, subsessile among the uppermost leaves. Perianth -leaves 

 free to the disk. Low herb, with linear leaves. i. Nanodea. 



