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Add Macl., p. 531, after Leguminosae. 



Fam. 52b. LARDIZABALACE^E, THE AKEBIA FAMILY. 



Twining or erect shrubs with diclinous, hypogynous, 3-merous flowers, 

 and compound leaves. Males with 6 monadelphous stamens, having 

 extrorse anthers ; and 3 rudiments of carpels ; females with 6 rudiments 

 of stamens, 3 apocarpous carpels and few berries with copious endosperm. 



BOQUILA (Dene.). 



Dioecious ; males ; calyx 6-leaved, its leaves membranaceous, the external 

 ovate, the internal obovate. Petals 6, biseriate, the externals 3-nerved ; 

 stamens 6, acuminate ; 3 rudiments of ovaries. Females : petals oblong 

 lanceolate ; 6 rudiments of stamens. Ovaries 3-6, with short styles. 

 Adult ovaries as if 2-celled. Berries subglobose, few-seeded. 



B. TRIFOLIOLATA (DC.) Dene. 



Undershrub, with trifoliolate leaves, and ovate leaflets. Bracts minute 

 along the peduncles. Petals round-ovate, very small at the base of the 

 staminal column. 



Peru and Chili ; N. W. Patagon., by Rio Puelo. 



Fam. 53. GERANIACE^:. 



GERANIUM L. 



P. 532 : 



G. ACAULE Willd. 



Should be deleted, being identical with Geranium sessiliflorum Cav., 

 which species occurs also in Chili and in Australia. 



P. 534 : 



G. DISSECTUM L. 



Macloskie ranges G. patagonicum Hook. fil. as a synonym and also as 

 a variety of this species. In reality G. patagoniciim is specifically distinct 

 from G. dissectum. The last is stated by Spegazzini to occur in S. Pat- 

 agonia, near the mouth of Rio Sta. Cruz a somewhat indefinite statement. 



