MACLOSKIE I VERBENACE^E. 



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MONOPYRENA SERPYLLIFOLIA Speg. 



Prostrate woody shrub, all appressed-canescent-hispidulous. Young 

 twigs slender. Leaves opposite, minute, obovate or rhomboid, thickish, 

 entire. Spikes acrogenous, capitate, densely flowered. Corollas white 

 with yellow throat. 



Cortex rimose ; woody white. Resembles a woolly Thymus serpylhim. 



Patagon., by Golfo de San Jorge. 



5. RHAPHITHAMNUS Miers. 



Small trees or shrubs, often armed, with opposite leaves and hermaph- 

 rodite, often racemed, minutely bracteolate flowers. Calyx urceolate, 

 shortly 5-toothed, accrescent. Corolla funnelform, its tube ventricose and 

 contracted above, its limb spreading, 4-lobed and the posterior lobe 

 2-parted. Stamens didynamous, and a posterior rudiment. Ovary sub- 

 globose, 2-carpellary ; each carpel 2-celled, the cells i -seeded. Style fili- 

 form 2-lamellate at top, scarcely exsert. Drupe enclosed in the fleshy calyx. 



Species 6, Chili, Fernandez (Fig. in Eng. & Prantl, iv, 3^, p. 157, O-R.) 



i. R. CYANQCARPUS Miers (Hook. & Arn., sub Citharexyhmi}. 



Evergreen tree, to 6 m. high, with spines and glossy leaves. Branches 

 terete, compressed at the nodes, FlG g 



yellow, often appressed-hirsute. 

 Spines slender, orange, 2-3 times 

 as long as the leaves. Leaves 

 arising below the spines, orbicu- 

 lar-ovate to rotundate, mucron- 

 ate, margin revolute, sparsely 

 dotted and sparsely hairy. Flow- 

 ers pendulous, solitary and oppo- 

 site, some in short, 3-4-flowered 

 racemes, lilac. Dmpes blue, as 

 large as peas. (Fig. 89.) 



(Central Chili) ; Valdivia. 



"Arroyon espinado" (Prickly myrtle). The Indians rub pieces of its 

 wood together in order to strike fire. "Conspicuous for its numerous 

 bright green leaves, accompanied by golden spines and lilac flowers, inter- 

 mixed with blue shining drupes." (J. Miers.) 



Rhaphithamtis cyanocarpus. Flowering branch, 

 slightly reduced; also flower and fruit, slightly magni- 

 fied. (After Hooker & Arnott.) 



