MACLOSKIE ! EUPHORBIACE^. 555 



Leaves broad-ovate to orbicular, basi-truncate to cordate, cremate, or 

 lobed. Flowers subsessile or long pediceled. 



(Andes, Fernandez) ; Magellan, by mountains and woods ; Fuegia. 



GLECHOMOIDES HIRSLTA. 



In Fernandez, and at Punta Arenas. 







4. AOXIKEN'A Speg. (Nova Addenda ad Fl. Patagon., 



p. 162, 1902.) 



EupJiorbiacea. crotonea, chrozophorea, eleutheropetala. 



Malejbnoers: calyx in the bud ovoid, acute, dosed, in anthesis valvatery 

 5-partite ; petals 5, shorter than the calyx, denticulate ; disc inconspicuous ; 

 stamens 5, filaments united at base into a column, alternating with die 

 petals ; anthers ovate, always erect, dorsifixed, the locules parallel, laterally 

 dehiscing ; no rudiment of an ovary. Female JUnoers : calyx as in males, the 

 sepals scarcely larger ; petals and disc-glands none ; ovary 3-locular ; styles 

 spreading, free from the base, slightly bifid below die middle ; the branches 

 slender apically, obtuse, entire ; ovule in the locules solitary. Capsule when 

 dry tridymous, separating into 2-valved coccL Seeds non-caninculate, 

 testa subpapillose-porous ; endosperm fleshy, greenish; embryo straight; 

 radicle cylindrical ; cotyledons plane, very short, and very broad. Tender, 

 glabrous annual ; leaves alternate, plane, entire, petiolate ; spikes axillary, 

 slender, floriferous above the middle, thc/touj somewhat remote, sessile, 

 the lover female, the upper male. Capsules glabrous, smooth. 



Named from Aoniken, the savages of southern Patagonia, also called 

 the Tehuelches. 



A. PATAGOXICA Speg. 



Small, effuse, stems green or purple, obsoletery and obtusely sub- 

 angulate, rather fleshy. Leaves orbicular to ovate, long-petiolate. Spikes 

 twice as long as the subtending leaf, 5 7-flowered. Flowers small, die 

 lower 3-4 female. Sepals acute, reflexed after dehiscence of the 



adorned with the columella persisting in the center. Seeds cinereous, 

 subglobose. 



S. Patagon., in sandy elevated places by Rio Chico, near Chonkenk- 



