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ovate-lanceolate. Calyx and ovary villous ; calyx-tube scarcely exceed- 

 ing the ovary, sepals much longer. Petals large. 

 S. Patagon., at Lago Sta. Cruz. 



4- CENOTHERA MAGELLANICA Phil. 



Stem erect, 25-40 cm. high, glabrous at least upwards. Leaves narrow- 

 linear to 7 cm. long, entire or remotely toothed, glabrous. Floral leaves 

 broader ; all acute. Ovary and calyx with soft, white, appressed hairs. 

 Calyx-ttibe slightly exceeding the ovary ; sepals shorter ; petals as long. 



S. Patagon., by Lago Sta. Cruz ; central mountains of Chubut. 



5- CE. MAGELLANICA CHUBUTENSIS. 



Leaves nearly all radical, linear-lanceolate, 7 cm. by 7 mm., attenuate 

 both ways, remotely toothed. Stem slender, almost leafless, under 20 cm. 

 high. Flowers few in an apical spike. Fruit glabrous. 



Patagon.; mountains of Chubut. 



6. CE. MENDOCINENSIS Gill. 



Annual, pubescent hirsute. Stem erect. Leaves linear, acute, unequally 

 or wavy-toothed. Stamens erect, equalling the petals and the erect calyx ; 

 stigma with short terete lobes. Flowers small, yellow. Fruit long-cylin- 

 draceous, hirsute, sulcate, shorter than the leaf. 



(Chili ; Andez of Mendoza) ; N. Patagon. (?). 



"Applied to wounds ; Balsamo (Spanish), Inulei (Indian)." (J. Ball.) 



7. CE. MOLLISSIMA Linn. (CE. nocturna W.) 

 Slender, erect, light green, more or less silky. Stem and branches leafy. 



Leaves linear or broader, 4-15 cm. long, sessile, repand-dentate, acute. 



Panicle of large yellow flowers, turning to red. Petals obovate. Capsiile 



linear, 4 cm. by 3 mm. 



(Chili and Argent.); N. Patagon, by Rio Negro, and Lago Nahuel- 



huapi. S. Patagon., Killik Aike. (Barnum Brown, Jan. 10, 1900.) 



8. CE. ODORATA Jacq. 



Pubescent, suffruticose, branching. (Varying villous to glabrous.) 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate, subdentate, wavy-crisp. Ovary as long as the 



