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spikes at the ends of the branches ; sessile in the axils of rough, ciliate 

 bracts. Calyx long-tubular, 4-toothed, plicate, its lobes unequal. Co- 

 rolla orange, tubular, scarcely incurved, subbilabiate. Style long, stigma 

 dilated, bilabiate, globose. Fruit of 4 oblong winged pyrenes in the ac- 

 crescent calyx. 



Patagon., by Rio Negro; Golfo de San Jorge; at Puerto Madryn; 



Rio de Sta. Cruz. 



1 6. VERBENA MORENONIS O. Ktze. (V. thymoides Ph. p. p. non Cham.) 



Pulvinate-branching shrub. Leaves opposite, crowded, imbricate, 

 ovate, acutish, white-hirsute, 1.5 by i mm. Flowers 20 in terminal 

 heads. Calyx and bracts hoary-pilose ; calyx 6 mm. long, furcate cylin- 

 drical, obliquely 5-toothed ; bracts half as long, ovate. Corolla exceeding 

 the calyx, blackening when dry. 



(Chili); Patagon. 



(This is V. patagonica Speg. Bol. S. N. C, Cordoba, xvi, 249.) 



17. V. PATAGONICA Speg. 



Pulvinate, cespitose, thick-stemmed shrub, silky-puberulous. Leaves 

 quadrifariously crowded, obscurely imbricate, obovate, thickish, rigid, sub- 

 acute, cuneate, attenuate, sessile ; the opposite not connate. Spikes end- 

 ing the branchlets, pediceled, i-3-leafy-bracteolate. Flowers solitary in 

 the axils of oval, acute, silky bracts. Calyx green, hoary, 5-costate, 

 5-toothed, its teeth obconical. Corolla-tube subcylindrical, half exceeding 

 the calyx, hoary outside, its throat bearded ; its limb spreading, with 5 

 subequal lobes. Stamens 4, the anterior pair inserted higher than the 

 posterior, filaments very short Style filiform, subclavulate. Stigma 

 small, with 2 unequal lobes. Ovary green, glabrous, 4-sulcate. 



Patagon., by Rio de Sta. Cruz (at " Cerro de los Caracoles," called 

 "Meseta." Compare V. azorelloides Speg.). 



1 8. V. PHILIPPIANA (V. microphylla Phil, non H. B. & K.) O. Ktze. 



Fruticose, low, branching. Leaves minute, sessile, fasciculate, crowded, 

 tripartite, strigose ; their segments linear, obtuse, with revolute margins. 

 Spikes capitate. Bracts ovate, half as long as the calyx. Perianth with 

 white reflex hairs. Calyx-teeth short, ovate. Tube of corolla pink, more 



