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13. PLANT AGO OXYPHYLLA Speg. 



Plantaginella. Suffruticose, 10-20 cm. high, perennial, cespitose. 

 Leaves rigid, linear, long-attenuate, cuspidate, white-mucronate, glabrous, 

 sessile, with a membranous pericladium, long-silky-villous on its inside. 

 Bracts like leaves, i -flowered, 2-bracteolate upwards. Corolla short, 

 glabrous, its lobes narrow, reflexed. 



S. Patagon., at Salinas by Rio Sta. Cruz. (Specimens referred to this 

 by Dusen have appressed hairs on the epiphyl.) 



14. P. PATAGONICA Jacq. 



Leaves lanceolate-linear, somewhat channeled, entire, woolly. Scape 

 rounded, hirsute. Spike cylindrical. Stamens not protruding. 



(Western N. Amer., and southwards) ; at Rawson by mouth of Rio 

 Chubut, very common ; Golfo de San Jorge. 



P. PATAGONICA var. 



Abundantly white cottony, not rufous, calyx. 

 N. Patagon., by Rio Negro. 



15. P. PSEUDO-PAT AGONICA Vatke. (P. patagonica Phil, non Jacq.) 



Plantaginella. Dwarf annual. Leaves narrow-linear, with a callous 

 tip, hoary-woolly on both sides. Peduncles ascending, at length suberect, 

 appressed-silky, exceeding the leaves. Spikes few, i-^flowered.yfow/'.s 

 subopposite, bracts deltoid, acute, medially hirt ; not half as long as the 

 calyx. Sepals obtuse, hirt. Corolla-lobes ovate-lanceolate, short, rather 

 erect, obtuse. Seeds rugose. 



(Chili) ; Patagon. (?). 



1 6. P. RANCAGIL-E Steud. (P. patagonica Bert, non Jacq.) 

 Plantaginella. Roots slender, sending up scapes. Leaves narrow- 

 linear, silky, as long as the scapes, at length shorter. Scapes terete, 

 pilose. Spike subcapitate, 2-4-flowered. Bracts shorter than the calyx. 

 Corolla-segments one-third as long as the calyx. Seeds 2, narrow-oblong. 

 (Chili) ; Patagon. (?). 



17. P. ROC/E Lorentz. 



Leaves broad-ovate, about 16 cm. by 1 1 cm., obtuse, crenate or toothed, 

 scarcely rugulose, green, with 5-7 principal nerves ; attenuate-petiolate. 



