Tas, 6170. 
BALBISIA VERTICILLATA. 
Native of Chili and Peru. 
Nat, Ord, GERANIACE®.—Tribe WENDTIEA. 
Genus Bausista, Cav. ; (Benth. §& Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 276), 
Batista verticillata ; frutex glaucus, ramis gracilibus strictis, foliis op- 
positis alterhisque tripartitis, segmentis lineari-oblongis obtusis acutisve 
integerrimis sericeo-pilosis marginibus revolutis, floribus terminalibus 
solitariis pedunculatis amplis aureis. 
B, verticillata, Cav. in Ann. Cienc. Nat., vol. vii. p. 62, t. 46; Don in Ed. 
New Phil. Journ., 1838, p. 277 ; Klotzsch in Linnea, vol. x. p. 481. 
B, peduncularis, Don in Ed. New Phil. Journ., 1833, p. 277. 
Lepocarron chilense, Desf. in Mem. Mus., vol. iv. p. 250; DC. Prod., vol. i. 
p. 702; C. Gay, Flor. Hist. Fis. et Polit. Chile Bot., vol. i. p. 394. 
L. argentum, Presi. Symb., vol. i. 66, t. 44; C. Gay, Le. p. 394. 
L. pedunculare, Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 139; C. Gay, l.c. p. 393. 
L, Meyenianum, Walp. Rep., vol. v. p. 380. 
L. cistiflorum, Meyen Reise, vol. i. p. 470; Nov. Act. Nat. Cur., vol. xix, 
Suppl. i. p. 316. 
— cistiflora, Hook. Bot. Misc., vol. ii. p. 211, t. 90; Klotzsch, 
sO. De : 
This beautiful half-hardy shrub was introduced into the 
Horticultural Gardens in 1825; but like so many other 
plants requiring occasional protection to insure its con- 
tinuance in the open air, it soon was lost from out of doors, 
and coming from a dry cool climate, it damped off when 
transferred to a pit; such plants indeed can be secured only 
through a constant repetition by cuttings, and by more care 
than is usually bestowed on plants with unfamiliar names. 
When properly grown it is an exceedingly handsome thing, 
flowering in August and September, and resembles a gigantic 
Hypericum more than an (Enothera, with which latter it has 
more usually been compared. The Chilian name is Flor de 
San José, and it has a wide range, both in Chili and Peru, 
growing on dry hills and ascending to 10,000 feet. 
Balbisia verticillata has been introduced for the second 
JUNE Ist, 1875. 
