growing by the side of a river near Conception ; and obvi¬ 
ously differs from the plant of the Botanical Magazine 
in the length of its peduncles, in the leaves, and whole 
habit. It is also remarkable for having almost universally 
a broad discoidal crimson blotch on the labellum, which 
gives the flower a striking appearance; but this circum¬ 
stance is not constant, and was not observed by the original 
describer of the species. 
The Alpine variety above distinguished, we owe to the 
kindness of Dr. Gillies, by whom specimens have been 
sent to us from the neighbourhood of Mendoza. 
The plants from which the annexed drawing was made 
were raised in the garden of the Horticultural Society, from 
seeds collected by Mr. James M‘Rae, upon the banks of 
rivulets in Chile. Feuill^e says it is used by the Chilians 
as a pot-herb, being boiled by them in soups. 
To cultivate this plant in perfection, it should be grown 
under a frame, in pots filled with coarse gravel, and placed 
in a pan of water. It then assumes all its natural beauty of 
colouring. If in a hot-house, it grows taller, but is paler in 
all its parts. 
Stems red, round, decumbent, quite smooth. Leaves 
opposite, lower stalked, upper sessile, ovate-rhomboid, 
decurrent in the petiole, coarsely and irregularly toothed, 
stained with red, the lower all over, the upper at the edges 
and veins. Flowers large, deep yellow, solitary, seated on 
filiform peduncles, which are much longer than the leaves. 
Calyx with the upper lip longest, and ovate, complicate, pale 
green, with dark red veins. Corolla much longer than 
calyx, with the upper segments broad, retuse, reflexed, 
lateral rounded, spreading, wavy; midrib somewhat reni- 
form, with a projecting palate, which is closely crested with 
yellow, glandular hairs, and spotted with little blood-red 
dots. A broad, transverse, blood-red blotch is placed on 
the face of the labellum. Tube closely dotted with crimson, 
with lines of yellow hairs running down it in the direction 
of the sinuses. Lobes of stigma almost square, very hairy. 
