Tas. 5192. 
CALLIXENE potypHyLta. 
Many-leaved Callizxene. 
Nat. Ord. Smrtace®.—HeExanpria MonoGyNia. 
Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi. Perigonium corollinum, sex-partitum, pa- 
tens, deciduum, laciniis eequilongis, tribus interioribus basi biglandulosis. Sfa- 
mina 6, basi laciniarum inserta ; filamenta libera, basi dilatata, anthers: ovate in- 
cumbentes. Ovarium triloculare. Ovu/a in loculis pauca, amphitropa. Stylus cras- 
sus, trisulcus; stigma obsolete trilobum. Bacca trilocularis, pulposa. Semina 
in loculis subterna, subglobosa, ¢esta membranacea, tenui, cum nucleo connata, 
umbilico ventrali punctiformi. Hmbryo excentricus, in basi albuminis carnosi re- 
spectu umbilici semi-transversus, extremitate radiculari centripeta.—Suffrutex 
Magellanicus, ramosus, basi nodosus, triphyllus, squamatus, superne foliatus ; foliis 
alternis, semi-amplexicaulibus, ellipticis, nervosis, coriaceis, margine crassioribus ; 
floribus terminalibus solitariis, folio stipatis, pedicellis brevibus, basi squamis 2-4 
cinctis. Endl. 
CALLIXENE polyphylla; elata valde pinnatim ramosa, foliis numerosis oblongis 
acutis mucronatis distichis 5—7-nerviis transversimque (sub lente) venosis 
subtus glaucis, pedunculis folium subsequantibus infra medium bracteatis, 
floribus pendentibus petalis acutis (siccitate maculatis). 
CALLIXENE polyphylla. Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 684. Hook. fil. Fl. Antarct. v. 2. 
p. 355. 
Luzuriaca erecta. Kth. En. Plant. v. 5. p. 280. 
' The first species of this very pretty genus (Callimene margi- 
nata) being detected by Commerson, on the inhospitable shores 
of the Magalhaens Strait, was appropriately named Callivene, from 
xarndos, something beautiful, and Eevos, a stranger. All the known 
species inhabit high southern latitudes of South America: and 
the present seems to be confined to the extreme south of Chili ; 
Cape Tres Montes, where it was discovered by C. Darwin, Esq., 
Isle of Huaffo, Dr. Fights, an officer in the United States’ Service, 
and Valdivia, where it is called “ Asajur,” Mr. Bridges. It be- 
longs to the same natural family as our well-known Lily-of-the- 
valley, and is generally seen running over the trunks of trees néar 
the ground, enlivening them with bright-green, Box-like leaves, 
glaucous beneath, and the gracefully-drooping flowers of the 
same pure white as the Lily-of-the-valley, but much larger, and 
instead of being of one piece, cut into six eventually spreading 
JULY Ist, 1860. 
