454 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I BOTANY. 



becoming elongate in fruit. Pedicels bractless, spreading. Siliques sub- 

 erect, terete, linear-oblong, attenuate to a short style, rather short, bearded 

 with stellate hairs. Septum i -nerved. Seeds many, oblong, rufous, 

 sulcate. 



Patagon., at Cabo Negro; Magellan; Fuegia, a steppe-plant (Dusen) 

 "Glabrous," Hook, f; " Plant covered with stellate hairs," O. Ktze. 



Family 45. CAPPARIDACE^:. Caper Family. 



Mostly herbs with alternate, simple or palmate leaves and 4-merous 

 regular, hypogynous flowers. Petals free, sessile or clawed, rarely none. 

 Stamens 6 or more, not tetradynamous, hypogynous. Ovary sessile or 

 stiped, i -celled, or falsely 2-8-celled. Ovules many, on parietal placenta. 

 Fruit a capsule or berry. 



Species 300, chiefly in warm countries. 



ATAMISQUEA Miers. 



Rigid, branching shrub, lepidote. Leaves linear, oblong, small. 

 Flowers solitary or paired, terminal, with slender pedicels. Sepals 2, 

 ovate, valvate, and 2 inner small. Petals 4, unequal, linear. Stamens 6, 

 with 3 or 6 staminodes. Dry stipitate berry, i-2-seeded. 



Only species : 



A. EMARGINATA Miers. 



Leaves emarginate at both ends, green above and shining ; hirsute and 

 hoary below. 



(Capparis atamisquea by O. Ktze., who says "non Capparis emar- 

 ginata auct." and that there are species of Capparis with few stamens; 

 which character is therefore not a sufficient ground for a separate genus.) 



(Chili ; Argentina) ; Patagonia, rather rare in shrubberies along Rio 

 Negro. Mata negra of the inhabitants ; its wood in burning emits a 

 smoke that is hurtful to both eyes and nose. 



Family 46. RESEDACE.E. Mignonette Family. 



Herbs with unsymmetrical, 4-7-merous flowers and alternate leaves 

 having glands for stipules. Terminal racemes or spikes. Calyx-leaves 

 narrow, and petals unequal, mostly laciniate. Hypogynous disk bearing 



