Cape Horn, where it first attracted the attention of Capt. 

 Ross, the Commander of the Antarctic Expedition, and was 

 afterwards gathered abundantly both there and in the E. 

 Falkland Island by the other officers. The roots from the 

 former locality were sent home by the Botanist of the Ex- 

 pedition from the Falkland Islands, where they had been 

 flowering in November, 1842 ; and they again bloomed 

 in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew in the months of 

 August and September. It is rather as a Botanical curio- 

 sity, than as an ornamental plant, that this species is here 

 introduced. It is cultivated in moist bog-earth. 



Descr. Roots stout, creeping, branched, densely clothed 

 with the very broad, membranous, sheathing bases of the 

 petioles. The leaves are very variable in size, (as is the 

 whole plant) including the petioles, from one or two inches 

 to a foot and a half high, according to the moisture or dry- 

 ness of the locality it inhabits, dark green and shining, 

 paler beneath, erect or horizontal. Scapes an inch to a foot 

 long, stout, erect, smooth, and succulent. Flowers an inch 

 to an inch and a half in diameter, the sepals elliptical 

 ovate, pale yellowish -green, nerved. Filaments shorter 

 than the sepals, fleshy, compressed. Anthers small, innate. 

 Carpels numerous, slightly hairy when young. The flow- 

 ers have, in warm weather, a faint honey-like smell. 

 J. D. H. 



Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Ovary : — magnified. 



