PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: BOTANY. 



NOTOPHyENA Miers. 

 No petals ; anthers open longitudinally. Fruit tricoccous. 



N. MAGELLANICA MierS. 



Flowers 3 in the axils, 4-merous. Branches somewhat quadrangular. 

 Magellan Strait. 



OCHETOPHILA Endl. 



This genus has both petals and petaloid calyx; and its petiole-bases 

 meet from both sides so as to enclose the bifid stipules ; anthers short, 

 with hippocrepiform dehiscence. 



O. PROSTRATA Miers. 



Caespitose alpine shrubs, with small, pendent, 4-merous flowers, and 

 small, spathulate-oval leaves. Fruit 3-celled, 3-seeded. Branches spiny, 

 and stipules prickly ; calyx teeth reflexed. Magellan Strait, Coquimbo. 



P. 567, insert, 7 lines from foot of page : 



Fam. 64 b. VITACE^E. Grape-vine. 



Tendril-climbing shrubs, with palmately divided or odd-pinnate leaves, 

 and flowers with cohering, caducous petals at top. Fruit a berry having 

 many seeds with ruminate endosperm. 



CISSUS Linn. 



A cup-like disk under the berry, which is rather dry and inedible ; 

 corolla expanding ; tendrils few ; seeds triangular obovate. 



C. STRIATA Ruiz et Pav. 



Leaves digitately 5-petiolate, glabrous, the leaflets sessile, oblong- 

 lanceolate, serrate; stem striate, flexuose. Cymes crowded. 

 S. Amer.; N. W. Patagonia, Rio Puelo. 



Fam. 65. EL^OCARPACE^E. Macl., p. 567. 



CRINODENDRON Mol. 

 P. 568 : 



C. PATAGUA Mol. 



Is also in N. W. Patagonia, but not in Magellan. 



