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4_! i-jugous, linear-oblong, sparsely pubescent. Racemes elongate, many- 

 flowered. Flowers largish ; calyx-teeth long. Legume 2-jointed, hispid. 

 (S. Brazil) ; N. Patagon., by Carmen. 



14. PATAGONIUM KARRAIKENSE (Speg.). 



Armed; racemed ; pinnate. Small, cespitose shrub ; the old branches 

 becoming naked and spiniform ; the younger with crowded leaves, and 

 short, terminal racemes. Leaflets from middle of petiole, 4-pairs, and an 

 odd one, elliptic, entire, hoary. Flowers few, concealed in the upper leaves, 

 orange. Legume 4-5-jointed, with long, white, feathery setae. 



A specimen in the Gray Herbarium is labelled Adesmia furcata Phil., 

 but this name does not occur in Philippi's Catalogue, nor in the Index 

 Kewensis, nor in Reiche's Flora de Chile. 



S. Patagon., in rocks at Sierra de los Baguales. 



15. P. LANATUM (Hook, f.) Reiche. 



Unarmed, woolly undershrub, 15 cm. high, with diffuse, slender branches. 

 Not racemed. Stipules slightly sheathing, with acute auricles upwards. 

 Leaflets 3-5 pairs, linear-oblong, obtuse. Pedicels axillary, i -flowered, 

 shorter than the leaves. Calyx long, its teeth linear-subulate. Standard 

 elliptic-oblong, tomentose on back. Style long. Legume 3-jointed. 

 Seeds broad. 



Patagon., Puerto Deseado ; Magellan ; by Rio Chubut, by Hatcher at 

 Cordilleras of S. Patagon. Flowers purplish, leaflets glabrescent ; other 

 parts more or less woolly. Golfo de San Jorge. (Speg.) 



1 6. P. LATIFOLIUM (Spreng. sub sEschinomene] O. Ktze. 



Unarmed. Herb, with prostrate, rooting stem; petioles and racemes 

 hispid. Leaflets 10 12-jugous, oblong, mucronate, glabrous. Raceme 

 long, many-flowered. Legume about lo-jointed, hispid with rigid setae. 



(S. Brazil, Montevideo) ; N. Patagon., by Carmen. 



17. P. LEPTOPODUM (Speg.). 



Unarmed; not racemed. Stem slender, glabrous. Leaves far exceed- 

 ing the internodes ; stipules ovate, connate-amplexicaul ; petiole folifer- 

 ous above the middle. Leaflets 3-4 pairs, sessile,- lanceolate to elliptic- 

 linear, acute both ways, entire. Flowers solitary, peduncle axillary, 



