MR. HESKETH PRICHARD’S PATAGONIAN PLANTS 8388 
gine quoque setoso, petiolo rhachi foliolifero subequale bins breviore, 
stipulis cum dentibus binis acutis instructis ; racem 
a ea ae ge a is; bracteis viridibus oblongo- 5 obtusis; 
a <ivibe 5 aaa: dors idos, equante; corolla calycem duplo 
excedens, glabra, aurantiaca, plus minus purpureo tincta vel lineata, 
lli lamina reflexa, orbiculari-reni , emar , glabra, 
gu 
cum pilis plumosis sige subalie < setulosis. 
ntly a low-growing herb, becoming woody below; the 
seen dark, with short de glandular hairs. ‘Leaves abo ut 
m. long, leaflets 5-6 mm. long by scarcely 4 mm. broad. Bracts 
~srd m. long, glandular niepid, like the pedicels, which are about 
equal in 1 nth to the flower. Calyx 4mm. long; limb of standard 
about 7 mm. long, nearly 1 cm. bad mae at “right angles to the 
short claw (2:5 mm. long); win nearly as long as the sta ard, 
Hig uiaea of mountains, Burmeister ‘Peninsu la. 
r of the section Ptilocar (lomentis ra eae a vel 
plinneats pr rimditis , Spegazzini), resembling in habit and glandular 
hairs ddesmia conferta ook. & Arn., which is, however, a eis 
more woody plant, with larger ie sare and smaller flow 
iy atau 0. K. Rev. Gen. iii. 2,79. P. villosum Sate 
in Anal. Mus. Nacion. Buenos Aires. ‘vii. 277. Adesmia villosa 
Hook. f. Fl. Antaret. 256. 
High slopes, Mt. Buenos Aires. 
Yoon & very variable and common species in Patagonia. 
Var A, var. nov. Planta argenteo-sericea, foliolis 
obovato. Prone mucronatis, 4-6 mm. longis ; legumine multi- 
articulato. 
cag slopes, Mt. Buenos Aires, and Mt. Frias. 
Vicia Bisuea Gill. ex Hook. & Arn. in Hook. Bot. Mise. iii. 197 ; 
Dasén i in Svensk. Exp. till Magellansiiind. iii. Sia 5, 262. 
ow slopes of mountains, Bur wa ster Pen 
Andes of Chili; South Pat 
V. SERICELLA Spegazz. Nov. Ada. Fi. Patag. i. ra 67. 
Low slopes a -— ntains, Burmeister Penins 
n Spegazzini’s plant, but, janis from the de- 
scription, Mr. Prichant's plant must represent the same or a very 
closely allied s 
oe alien Lam. Encycel. ii. 708 ; Britten, Journ. Bot. 
1901, 9 
ni slo opes of mountains, Burmeister Peninsula. 
South Patagonia; ua 
Li. MAGELLANICUS tapes, Eneyol: li. 708, 
Low slopes of mountains, Burmeister Peninsula. 
Chili; Patagonia; Straits of Magellan. 
