A SUl'PI.KMKNT Hi 1111. 1' IF.KI IM )1'HYTK.S AND rHANKROflAMS OK JL'AN KKRNANDEZ 775 



distriliutcd to sex'eral botanical <^ai'(lt.'ns, but I had to wait until April, 1944, 

 before a specimen flowered. I'Vuits were not obtained; O. is ornithoj^anious. 



31. Luzula masafuerana n. sp. A. /-eri'f/jwsd l)(isv. subsp. h/su/nr/s Skottsh. 

 3.110; L. hisiiiaris Skottsb. 4. !S9, nonicn. 



I discus.sed the Masafueran Luzula at some length in 3. i i i — 112, expressing 

 my conviction that /,. racotwsa Desv. coll. (t)'pe from Mexico) cannot be upheld 

 in its present extent. In 1925 I used the name L. insularis. Ind. Kew. Suppl. 

 5, 192 1, lists another species under the same name: "L. insularis Rouy: L. 

 campestris var. insularis l^riq." This cjuotation is misleading, because Rouv never 

 claimed his visularis to be a separate species. Under L. campestris we find on 

 p. 265: "Race. — L. insularis Rouy", and the expression "Capsule un peu plus 

 courte que dans le type" also shows that he did not regard it as a species. 

 L. insularis Rouy would not, I believe, invalidate L. insularis Skottsb., but in 

 order to avoid all possibilities of a mistake, I have found it better to propose 

 a new name. 



34. Juncus procerus E. Mey. J. acutus, Joiiow 150, Skottsb. 3. 112. 



During his revision of certain species of JuJicus, Dr. H. W'EIMARCK also 

 studied my material from Juan Fernandez and stated that it belongs to J. pro- 

 cerus (not published). 



Area of distribution: South Chile, Juan Fernandez. 



37. Libertia formosa Graham'. Skottsb. 3. 113. 



Tiiis name has always been used for the large-flowered species from South 

 Chile (Valdivia, Chiloe, etc.), with very large, reduced and bract-like upper leaves 

 supporting sessile, compact and pseudo-umbellate inflorescences, until GUNCKEL 

 1. c. revived Struuiaria chilensis Molina and coined the new combination Libertia 

 chilensis (Mol.) Gunckel to replace L. formosa, a combination also used by DiELS 

 1. c. 480. 



There is another, similar species from the same region, formerly referred 

 to the Neozeelandic L. ixioides and later identified with L. elegans Poepp. The 

 main diff"erences appear to be: 



formosa: bracts and bracteoles large, the primary bracts as much as 6 or 

 7 cm long; lateral inflorescences sessile, dense, or the lowermost pedunculate 

 (even the lower 2 or 3 more or less pedunculate in the postfloral stage), peduncles 

 and pedicels rather stout; sepals 6 — 8 mm long, petals 13 — 16 mm, anthers 

 3 nim ± ; 



elegans: bracts and bracteoles smaller, primary bracts 2 — 4 cm long; lateral 

 inflorescences long pedunculate already in bud, less dense, peduncles and pedicels 

 slender; sepals 4 — 5 mm long, petals 7 — 10 mm, anthers 2 mm +. 



There can be no doubt that Molina's Strumaria (a South African genus 

 of Amaryllidaceae), on which Herbert based his Choerododia (1837), is a Li- 

 bertia, and GUNXKEL wanted to prove that MOLINA had /.. formosa in mind. I 

 shall quote his description 1. c. 130. 



' Robert Graham, not Maria C, as Johow thought. - 



