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Add line 4 : 



(12) V. COTYLEDON Ging. 



Stigma bifid, with reflexed lobes. Leaves crowded, rhombo-spathulate, 

 attenuate to a long petiole, entire, glabrous. Sepals linear; spur very 

 short ; capsule trigonal ; seeds about 9, blackish. Peduncle twisted above. 



Chili. Chubut, in the Andine district ; Territory of Neuquen. 



(13) V. LANCEOLATA Forst. 



Stoloniferous, stigma marginate; leaves lanceolate, attenuate, stipules 

 free. Sepals lanceolate ; petals all glabrous (?). Stem prostrate j^calyx 

 glabrous. 



S. Amer.; N. Patagon., Territory of Neuquen. 



Fam. 71. FLACOURTIACE^:. Macl., p. 584. 



AZARA LANCEOLATA Hook. f. 



Occurs in N. Patagonia, Territory of Neuquen. 

 Add after line 7 from foot, the following species : 



A. MICROPHYLLA Hook. f. 



Branches distichous. Leaves glabrous, small, distichous, entire; the 

 larger obovate, obtuse, attenuate, the smaller oblong-rounded. Corymb 

 sessile or short-stalked ; flowers small. Stamens 4-5 with alternate 

 glands, filaments flat, anthers extrorse. 



Valdivia, Chili ; W. Patagonia, here sometimes with cleistogamic 

 flowers. 



Add: 



Fam. 71 b. MALESHERBIACE^E. 



Herbs or undershrubs with alternate, ex-stipulate leaves, and 5-merous, 

 rather showy flowers, having the 5 stamens hypogynous on a gynophore, 

 and a 3-merous one-celled capsule enclosed in the persisting receptacle. 

 Seeds many, with endosperm. 



MALESHERBIA Ruiz & Pav. 



Erect, tomentose, with narrow, serrulate or pinnatifid leaves, and 

 bracted racemes. Calyx tube long, the petals like to or smaller than the 

 calyx-lobes. Styles 3, arising separately on the ovary. 



