MACLOSKIE : REVISION OF FLORA PATAGONICA. 1 07 



lous, linear, strict or the upper somewhat incurved, trigonal, patent, the 

 lower about i cm. long, the upper decrescent, all uninervous on the under- 

 side ; inflorescence spiciform, short, few flowered ; bracts dark-brown (at 

 least in the dry plant), broad ovate, cochleate, rigid, acute, on the outside 

 covered with long hairs ; perigonium funnelform, outside silky, inside 

 with a short hairy line above the stamens, also glabrous, deeply divided 

 into five oblong-ovate, acute lobes, tube long, ampliated upwards ; stamens 

 attached at the mouth of the tube and with nearly sessile anthers. 



This species differs from all other species of the present genus in its 

 thick, trigonal, usually strict leaves showing a single nerve on their 

 underside. The nerve scarcely runs out into a point. 



The type in Herb. Holm. 



QUINCHAMALIUM Juss. Macl., p. 342. 



The species of this genus are in need of a thorough revision, but on 

 account of want of material I have not been able to undertake it. I 

 should not omit pointing out, though, that, according to A. B. Rendle, 

 the species occurring in the vicinity of Lago Argentino as far as I am 

 aware there is only one found there is identical with Quinchamalium 

 procumbens Ruiz et Pav., which Rendle considers to be, in all probability, 

 the same as Q. chilense Lam. On the other hand, it is doubtful whether 

 Lamarck's species is identical with Q. chilense Lam. The last species is 

 very unsatisfactorily described, and, according to Philippi Cat. Plant. Chil., 

 it includes all the species of this genus. Rendle further observes, in 

 Journal of Botany, Vol. 42, p. 327, that the specimen of Q. dombeyi 

 Brongn. of the British Museum agrees with Q. procumbens Ruiz et Pav. 

 From this it appears certain that a revision of this genus should result in 

 a very considerable reduction of the number of species. D. 



Fam. 31. POLYGONACE.E. Macl., p. 348. 



RUMEX L. 



R. CRISPISSIMUS OK. Macl., p. 348. 

 Syn. Rumex dectimbens Dus. 



It is with some hesitation that I dismiss R. decumbens Dus. as synony- 

 mous with R. crispissitmis OK. The descriptions of both species agree 



