above quoted, I little thought I should one day have the 

 pleasure of figuring it from plants flourishing in the open 

 air, and without any covering in the winter. Yet such is 

 the case. Seeds were introduced by Dr. Gillies in 1829, 

 and young plants, both at Mr. Knight's Nursery, and at the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, were removed to a South 

 aspect in front of a stove. They have, with us at least, 

 attained to a height of six or seven feet, and bear their rich 

 yellow blossoms, with the singularly long and thick scarlet 

 stamens, during the summer months, and, indeed, till cut off 

 by the early autumnal frosts. In such a situation, no shrub 

 can be more deserving of cultivation. In its native country, 

 the late Dr. Gillies, its discoverer, informed me that, " it 

 is called by the natives Mai de Ojos, and that it is very 

 abundant in the cultivated plains of Mendoza, where it has 

 the benefit of the water used in irrigation; seeming to be 

 incapable of living on the dry arid lands which are not 

 under cultivation. Along the southern frontier of the pro- 

 vince of Mendoza, between the rivers Diamante and Atuel, 

 it is found abundantly, with other shrubs, in sheltered 

 situations : also among thickets along the western side of 

 the Rio Quarto, near the western boundary of the Pampas; 

 those plants growing in Buenos Ayres (where it is not un- 

 common), owing their origin to the seeds sent from Men- 

 doza. They do not ascend further than to the foot of the 

 mountains, neither are any traces of them to be seen in the 

 province of San Juan, which follows Mendoza to the North, 

 along the foot of the Cordillera of the Andes." 



JJescr. Stems erect, much branched; branches rounded, nearly 

 glabrous Leaves alternate, abruptly bipinnate; the leaflets small, 

 scarcely half an inch long, oblong, obtuse, glabrous. Stipules two, 

 VJl'?T Umt Z' *\ the baSe 0f the main ™his. Raceme terminal, of 

 ipn^\r" g6 ' handsoine flowers ; the lowest buds expanding first, 

 hra^L ^f^PPf P art densely imbricated with the curious, deciduous 

 Wk l2f S i e \ "£ are ° Vate ' cuspidate-acuminate, glandular at the 

 S.n G 7 ^ ihe »™%™- Peduncle an inch long, glandular, 



iltxv P p :?t St ? -v urb r te ' appe r g e V nally 



^Pcrn^ntc J™ i i P™™ 6 > «w6 of five, oblong, nearly equal, green 



S n, ;S a i ° U tb ? ° Utside ' serrated at the Point iW& five, 



c r 1V^ ^ in l "r ' SC T lle ' "V^ding, obcordate, yellow. Stamens 



Ld; WhTre K Z/ * tOP ° f the -alyx-tube, four to five inches 



loug, origin red. Anthers versatile, oblong. 



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