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c2. Flowers 5-merous, in sessile, quasi-catkins at the defoliated nodes. Perianth-leaves 

 distinct to the ovary. Shrub with small, plane leaves. Fruit pea-like. 



2. My osc kilos. 

 b2. Disk produced to interstaminal lobes. Axillary, sessile fascicles of 4-5-merous flowers. 



Shrub having rhomboid leaves with spinescent angles. 3. lodina. 



A2. Tube of the perigynous perianth more or less produced above the ovary, and not covered 



by the disk. Spikes terminal. Fruits nutlets. 

 b. Low herbs with linear or sublanceolate, rather rigid leaves. Flowers 4-5-merous. Bracts 



and bractlets not coalescing. 4. Arjona. 



b2. Low herbs with linear leaves. Bracts and bractlets coalescing into a calyculus below the 

 mostly 5-merous flowers. 5. Quinchamalium. 



i. NANODEA Banks. 



Low, moss-like, with alternate, narrow-linear leaves, concealing the per- 

 fect, subsessile flowers, which are mostly solitary. Calyx not produced 

 above the ovary. Disk concave. Fruit a drupe. 



Species, i, viz. : 



N. MUSCOSA Gaertn. f. 



Stem 6 cm. high. Upper leaves 8-16 mm. long. Flowers violet, 3 mm. 

 long.' 



Magellan, in damp meadows ; S. Fuegia (Dusen) ; Staaten I.; Falklands. 



2. MYOSCHILOS Ruiz & Pav. 



Branching, glabrous shrub, with small alternate, entire leaves, and cat- 

 kin-like spikes at the leafless nodes of last year's branches. Flowers 

 hermaphrodite, severally subtended by bracts ; calyx-lobes 5, glabrous, 

 their bases bearing 5 short stamens with small anthers. Disk broad ; 

 style 3-lobed. Ovules 3, pendulous. Fruit a drupe, sometimes with 

 persisting bracts and calyx-lobes. 



Species i , viz. : 



M. OBLONGUS Ruiz & Pav. 



Leaves ovate*, mucronulate, 12-25 mm - l n g> shortly petioled. Spikes 

 4-6 mm., ovoid, flowers purplish. Calyx-lobes transversely sulcate. Drupe 

 purple, pea-like. 



S. Patagon., upper valley of Rio Gallegos. (O. Nordenskjold.) (Chili 

 and Peru.) An infusion of its leaves is used for senna. "Codo-coypu" ; 

 food of the coypu rodent (Myocastor coypus]. 



