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6. ATRIPLEX MONTEVIDENSIS Sprang. 



Suffruticose, perennial, prostrate-effuse, densely branching. Leaves 

 alternate, sessile, minute, linear-oblong, acutish, entire, farinose under- 

 neath. Bracts connate above the middle. Apex of radicle and coty- 

 ledons superior. 



(S. Brazil; Montevideo); N. Patagon., near Carmen; Golfo de San 

 Jorge. 



7. A. PAMPARUM Griseb. (A. lorentzii O. Ktze.) 



(Obione.] Branching, lepidote-hoary, shrub nearly 2 meters high. 

 Leaves sparse, spatulate, entire or repand, subsessile. Flowers monoe- 

 cious. Male flowers uppermost, most of them in a leafless, interrupted 

 spike. Female glomerules axillary, their bracts subsessile, cuneate, sub- 

 rotund, united half-way, above unequally sinuate and toothed: Teeth 

 obtuse, 2-crested dorsally. 



(Chili); N. Patagon. 



8. A. PATAGONICA Dietr. 



Ascending, branching shrub. Leaves petiolate, oblong, basi-attenuate, 

 obtuse, sinuate-toothed ; thickish, coriaceous, farinose-hoary. Fruiting 

 bracts orbiculate-cordate, entire, broadly 2-crested on back. 



Patagonia. 



9. A. REICHII Volkens. 



Monoecious. Prostrate shrub, with gray, scrobiculate indumentum. 

 Root thick ; stems many, simple and naked below, branching and leafy 

 above. Leaves short-petiolate, oblong-elliptical, obtuse, entire, larger 

 above. Male flowers crowded at apex of branches, and in axillary glom- 

 erules ; female flowers terminal and axillary, most of them in a short spike. 

 Bracts deltoid, basiconnate. 



E. Fuegia, above tide mark by the seaside. (Dusen.) 



IO. A. SAGITTIFOLIA Speg. 



Dioecious shrub, over i meter high, intricately branching, unarmed, 

 hoary. Leaves alternate, sessile, sagittate, entire ; their auricles long, 

 often involute into the axil, with white, cinerascent indumentum. Theca 

 of bracts short-peduncled, orbicular to ovate, rounded below ; above more 

 or less 3-lobed ; also dorsally plane, obsoletely 3-nerved, not crested. 



Patagon., by R. Sta. Cruz; Chubut, near Rawson, etc. 



