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CARL SKOTTSBERG, A BOTANICAL SURVEY OF THE FALKLAND LSLANDS. 



longa, lamina 1 — 3x0,5 — 1 cm., rhombea basi subtruncata vel in petiohim alatum, 2 — 

 3 mm. latum basi amplexicaulem sensim transiens; folia suprema obovato-spathulata, 

 2 — 3x0,0—0,8 cm., obtnsiuscula, subamplexicaulia. Nervus mediiis solum conspicuus. 

 Flores ex axillis foliorum superiorum solitarii, longe pedunciilati pedunculo ad 4 cm. 

 longo folio fulcrante denique longiore, teiiui. Sepala basi solum connata, ovato- 

 triangularia, acutiuscula, subglabra, circ. 0,9x0,4 cm. longa et lata, dorso non carinata. 

 Capsula calycem brevior. S em i na orbicularia, valde compressa margine acutiuscula, 

 nigra, valde lustrosa, sub lente minutissime punctulata. Corolla alba vel rosea vel 

 purpurea. Stylus brevis. Cetera desiderantur. 



After my return to Sweden in 1909, Mr. Arthur Felton of Westpoint was 

 kind enough to send me samples of a plant, entirely unknown to me, and described 

 above as a new species of Calandrinia, a genus hardly to be expected in the Falk- 



b c a 



Fig. 1. Calandrinia Feltonii; a — c l)asal leaves, d iipper leaf and flover. Nat. size. 



land Islands. Reiche has treated this genus elaborately in his Flora de Chile. The 

 Falkland species belongs to section IX wliich consists of one single species, C. 

 axilliflora Barn., distributed from Santiago to Valdivia. With this Reiche joined 

 C.{?) nitida DC. Prodr. III, p. 359 {=Talinum nitidiuii Ruiz. et Pav.); probably 

 he is right in doing so. I have seen no specimens of the latter plant, and 

 cannot venture to judge of its real nature from the very fragmentary descriptions. 

 By the courtesy of the Director of Kew Gardens, I have been able to examine 

 3 specimens of C. axilliflora from various localities. C. Feltonii is undoubtedly nearly 

 related to this species, but seems quite distinct, and differs in the following charac- 

 ters. It is much stouter and larger in all parts, with more fleshy leaves; the sepals 

 are larger and much more acute, being very obtuse in C. axilliflora, and, besides, 

 dorsally cristate; the capsule of the latter is distinctly longer than the calyx, but the 

 seeds only half as large and quite opaque. — 



