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gular and acute. Corolla glabrous, whitish-green, with cylindric tube, 

 and lobes becoming refract, linear-subulate, involute, a third shorter than 

 the tube, acute. Stamens and ovary glabrous. Berry ? 

 S. Patagonia, near Rio Deseado. 



6. J. MAGELLANICA. 



Killik-aike. (Skottsbg.) 

 P. 708, also add the genus : 



TRECHON^ETES Miers. 



Low herb, with thick roots, pinnatifid leaves, and axillary peduncles ; 

 having corolla broad-campanulate, its border 7-lobed ; filaments inserted 

 near the base of the tube, and attached to the back of the anthers. 



T. LACINIATA Miers. 



With yellow, red-veined corolla. 



Chili ; N. Patagonia, at the confluence of Rio Limay and Rio Negro. 



PANTACANTHA Speg. 



Calyx tubular, 5-partite, the lobes long, spinescent, revolute. Corolla 

 tubular and regular, its lobes small, mucronate-spinulose. Stamens 

 included, inserted in lower half of tube, filaments long. Anthers erect, 

 oblong, introrse. Disk not evident. Ovary 2-celled, style filiform, stigma 

 slightly 2-lobed. Ovules few. Capsule oblong, acutish, septicidally 

 2-valved, the valves 2-cleft. Seeds angular, subreniform, laterally com- 

 pressed, wing-crested. Embryo curved round, small endosperm, with 

 terete, superior radicle. 



P. AMEGHINOI Speg. 



Perennial with long angular branches, and large leaves ; primary leaves 

 sagittate, linear, rigid, long, spinescent. Secondary leaves fasciculate in 

 the axils of the primaries, mucronate-spinose. Flowers terminal on the 

 branches, mostly sessile and solitary. Calyx-lobes thrice as long as the 

 tube. Corolla glabrous, its tube little exceeding the calyx-lobes. Corolla 

 lobes reflexed ; stamens hairy below ; style not exsert. Capsule shorter 

 than the calyx-lobes. Seeds glabrous, reddish-brown. 



Patagonia, by Lago Musters ; Rio Chico. 



