MACLOSKIE I SANTALACE.E. 343 



(J. Miers would place Arjona, Myoschilos and Quinchamalium in Ola- 

 cacecz, because they have a double perianth. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot., xvii, 



P- 138.) 



i. QUINCHAMALIUM CHILENSE Molina. "Quinchamali." 



Annual, with stout fistular stem, 12 cm. high, the branches all reaching 

 nearly the same height. Leaves ^diverging and curving upwards, linear- 

 lanceolate, acute at both ends, margin subrevolute, i -nerved on short 

 petioles. Peduncle 4-angled. Flowers 5-merous, numerous in terminal 

 globular heads. 



(Chili); Patagon. Figs. G-P in Eng. & Prantl, iii, i, p. 226. 



Q. CHILENSE PROCUMBENS. 



2. Q. GRACILE Brongn. 



Very slender, with a flexuous, fibrilliferous root, and erect, slender stems, 

 about 5-8 cm. high. Leaves linear, subfalcate, mucronate on a short 

 petiole. Head of small, orange flowers. Corolla divided half way into 5 

 narrow segments. Fruit small, 5-costate, lemon-colored, in the calyx. 



Patagon., by Rio Chubut; Lago Blanco; Rio Senger. 



3. Q. MAJUS Brongn. 



Stems erect, 25 cm. high, apically branching. Leaves linear, acute, 

 12-25 mm - l n g> sparse, the uppermost scabrous-margined. Involucel 

 glabrous; flowers rather large; perigonium 15 mm. long, yellow-orange. 



Q. MAJUS SPEGAZZINII (Speg. var. sine nomine). 



Fructiferous stems thickening from the base gradually to the apex. 

 Patagon., by Rio Chubut. 



4. Q. PATAGONICUM F. Phil. 



Perennial. Stems ascending, striate, slender. Leaves fleshy, linear, 

 apiculate. Segments of perianth two thirds as long as the 10 mm. tube. 

 Stamens with very short filaments, and anthers one third or one half as 

 long as the perianth-segments, slender. Style shorter than the anthers. 

 Fruit inclosed in the subglobose, crustaceous, free, toothed involucre. 



W. Patagon., in the Cordilleras. Stem n cm. long. Flowers 15-20 

 in a dense capitate spike. Larger leaves 12 by i mm. Like Q. andinum 



