MACLOSKIE : REVISION OF FLORA PATAGONICA. .23! 



ciliatis, costa media crassa, in facie inferiore foliorum carinam efformante ; 

 flores in axillis foliorum superiorum solitarii, folia vix superantes, fere 

 sessiles vel in pedicellis 1.0-2.0 mm. longis dispositi, bracteis 4-6, c. 3.0 

 mm. longis, foliis simillimis cincti ; calyx oblonge campanulatus, c. 3.0 

 mm. altus, circiter ad ^3 longitudinis 5-lobatus, lobis linearibus, truncatis, 

 marginibus ciliatis ; corolla albo-flavescens, calyce c. triple longiore, tubo 

 sursum sensim ampliato, infundibuliformis, c. 7.0 mm. longa, glaberrima, 

 5-lobata, lobis brevibus, truncatis, longitudinaliter depresse uni-plicatis ; 

 stamina c. 2.0 mm. supra basin corollae inserta, inaequilonga, brevissimum 

 paullulo supra medium tubum, longissimum fere ad faucem corollinam 

 producta ; stigmate subhemisphaerico ; capsula globosa, bilocularis ; semina 

 singula in quoque loculo, subreniformia, atro-brunnea, c. 1.4 mm. longa 

 et i.o mm. lata. 



S. Patagonia, on the mountains near Rio F6siles (about 1,100 m.), 

 Low, densely branching, caespitose shrub, about 1-1.5 dm. high and 

 2.5 dm. in diam.; root robust; branches below dichotomous, upwards 

 with fasciculate branchlets, covered above with densely imbricating leaves, 

 below with dead ones ; leaves small, linear, nearly in their whole length 

 subcanaliculate, green, truncate, entire, glabrous, pectinate-ciliate at margin, 

 dorsally costate-carinate, flowers solitary in the upper axils, scarcely ex- 

 ceeding the leaves, nearly sessile or with very short pedicels ; bracts 4-6, 

 like the leaves, but only half as long ; calyx oblong-campanulate, 5-lobed, 

 the lobes about a third of the calyx truncate, with ciliated margins ; 

 corolla whitish yellow, about three times longer than the calyx, the tube 

 gradually ampliate, glabrous, 5-lobed, lobes short, truncate, with a longi- 

 tudinal depressed fold ; stamens affixed above the base of the tube, not 

 exceeding the corolla and of different length ; stigma subhemispherical, 

 capsule globular, 2-celled ; seeds solitary in the cells, subreniform. 



Nearest to B. patagonica Speg., differing in the strait, glabrous, pec- 

 tinate-ciliated leaves, more numerous bracts and less deeply lobed calyx. 



B. PYCNOPHYLLOIDES Speg. 



Is Saccardophytum pycnophylloides ; fide Dusen and Skottsberg. 

 P. 713, after line 13, add the genus: 



GRABOWSKIA Schlecht. 



Shrubs with drupaceous, scarcely fleshy fruit; the endocarp indurate, 

 of 2 hemispherical pyrenes, which may or may not be excavate, 1-2- 



