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tendrils, and is also distinguished by having few broad leaflets and differ- 

 ently shaped stipules and short, erect petioles.) 



5. VICIA HOOKERI Don. (y. micrantha Hook. & Arn.) 



Annual, villous ; leaflets 3-4 pairs, narrow-linear, acuminate. Tendrils 

 simple. Stipules semisagittate, linear, entire. Inflorescence shorter than 

 the leaves and with 2 small flowers, 5 mm. Calyx short, campanulate, 

 teeth lanceolate, as long as the tube. Legume compressed, lanceolate, the 

 sutures hairy. Seeds 6. 



Valdivia ; Chubut, by Carren-leofu. The Chubut specimens are small, 

 leaflets linear, 3-jugous, pedicels i -flowered, just surpassing the leaves, 

 calyx-teeth short. (Speg.) 



6. V. MACR^EI Hook. & Arn. 



Pubescent. Stem prostrate, angled. Leaflets 6-9 pairs ; elliptical, ob- 

 tuse, shining underneath. Cirrhi divided. Stipules semisagittate, deeply 

 angulate-toothed. Peduncles as long as the leaves, crowded, many- 

 flowered. Calyx-teeth short, subequal, the lower slightly larger. Petals 

 yellow, purple-variegated. Legumes deflex, oblong, glabrous, with long, 

 hairy style. 



(Chili, cordilleras) ; Patagon. 



7. V. MAGELLANICA Hook. f. 



Glabrous. Stem slender, angulate, flexuous, sparsely leafy. Stipules 

 semisagittate, their apex and lobule acuminate. Leaves remote. Petioles 

 long, ending in a cirrhus ; leaflets i pair, rarely 2 pairs ; linear-elongate, 

 acuminate. Pedicels axillary, solitary, i -flowered, shorter than the leaf. 

 Calyx pubescent, with subulate teeth. Standard twice as long. 



S. Patagon., near Rio Chico: Magellan, E. Fuegia. (Dusen, chiefly in 

 thickets.) 



" V. magellanica, saffordi, patagonica, and andicola have pubescent 

 peduncle and calyx, and may be all the same. V. graminea is different." 

 (Spegazzini.) 



8. V. MORENONIS Harms. 



Stem glabrous, flattened-angular. Leaflets 4, opposite, subsessile, linear, 

 with a short, obtuse apex. Stiptiles small, semisagittate. Peduncles 



