1 82 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: BOTANY. 



P. 595, after line 7, add : 



OPUNTIA GRATA Phil. 



Joints ovate, 36 mm. long, 26 mm. thick ; hairs white, clothing areoles 

 8-10 mm. long; spines 3-4, equal, flat, fulvous, 20 mm. distant. Flowers 

 all yellow, 25 mm. long; spines setiform, 12-18 ram. long, covering the 

 upper tubercles of the ovary. Scale ovate, leafy, 3 mm. long. Calyx- 

 leaves ovate, obtuse, 6 mm. long. Stigmas erect, 6 mm. long. 



MAIHUENIA Phil. 



Maihuenia has habit of Opuntia, but no glochidia; leaves cylindrical 

 or sagittate, with short petioles ; flowers terminal, rotate. A low alpine, 

 dwarf shrub, jointed, the joints short-cylindric. Leaves fugacious. 



Has 3 species in Chili, viz., 



1. M. valentini Speg. Joints cylindrical; very spiny. 



2. M. brachyadelphus K. Sch. Joints spiny only above, or sparingly. 



3. M. philippii (K. Sch.) Web. Joints globular. 



P. 595 : 



M. POEPPIGII Speg. (non Web.) 



(Sub M. poeppigii Web.) 

 Should be deleted, being identical with Maihuenia valentini Speg. 



Fam. 75. THYMELEACE.E. Macl., p. 597. 



DAPHNE L. 

 D. PILLO-PILLO Gay. 



Should be removed to the genus Ovidia, Macl., p. 598. 

 P. 598 : 



D. TENERA Phil. 



Should be deleted, being identical with O. pillo-pillo (Gay) Meissn. 

 P. 598, add (1. 14 from below) the species: 



OVIDIA PILLO-PILLO (Gay) Meissn. 



Syn. Daphne pillo-pillo Gay; Daphne tenera Phil., described above. 



S. Chili ; northern section of W. Patagonia. 



Macloskie incorrectly states (p. 962) that this species is placed in Engler 



