MACLOSKIE : REVISION OF FLORA PATAGONICA. 2OI 



Fam. 92. ASCLEPIADACE^E. Macl., p. 663. 

 P. 663, line 9, add the genus : 



ELYTROPUS Muell. 



Carpels immersed in fleshy disk, with epigynous lobes. Leaves oppo- 

 site. Flowers bracted, solitary in the axils. Corolla broad campanulate, 

 with very short tube, its short lobes, overlapping dextrorsely, scarcely con- 

 torted. Stamens included ; seeds apically comose. Peduncles mostly 

 i -flowered, bracted. No glands in calyx; no annulus on stigma. 



Climbing shrub. Chili. 



E. CHILENSIS (Hook. & Arn., sub Echites). 



Stem twisting, rusty-pubescent; leaves 5-10 cm. long, ovate, slightly 

 acuminate, short-petioled, subcordate, hairy. Peduncles axillary, as long 

 as the flower ; bracts numerous, small, hairy, imbricate, ovate ; calyx-lobes 

 erect, lanceolate ; corolla with tube as long as the calyx, with ovate lobes. 

 Stamens included. 



Chili ; N. W. Patagonia, by Rio Reftihue. 



P. 664 : 



TURRIGERA LESSONII K. Sch. 



Is not known from Patagonia. 



P. 665 : 



MELINIA CANDOLLEANA (H. & A.) Dene. 



Ought probably to be omitted. It certainly does not occur at Rio Sta. 

 Cruz, as stated by Macloskie, and scarcely occurs in Patagonia. 

 P. 665, after line 20, add the genera Asclepiadacecs: 



5. ARAUJIA Broth. (Lagena Fourn.). 



Winding shrubs with leaves rather mealy; and cymose, paired inflores- 

 cence. Corolla with long tube, salverform ; glabrous or mealy. 

 Brazil. 



I. A. CYNANCH^E. 



Anthers ending in an inflexed membrane, polliniferous from below the 

 disk of the stigma. Pollinia solitary in the thecae, pendulous. Corolla- 

 tube wide, often contracted upwards, the limb broader, 5-cleft. Corolla- 



