Tas. 6236. 
MILLA LEICHTLINII. 
Native of Chilian Andes. 
Nat, Ord, Lintace£,—Tribe MILLEA, 
Genus MILLa, Cav. ; (Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc., x1,,-378). 
MILLA Leichtlinii; cormo magno globoso collo elongato, foliis 5-6 synanthiis 
erectis loratis viridibus obtusis facie canaliculatis umbellas superantibus, 
scapis brevissimis, umbellis 1-3-floris, spathe valvis 1-2 lanceolatis mem- 
branaceis, pedicellis crassis brevissimis, perianthii rotati tubo cylindrico 
viridulo pollicari, segmentis albis oblongis patulis tubo duplo brevioribus 
dorso viridi vittatis, staminibus prope faucem tubi obscure biseriatis 
antheris parvis oblongis, ovario oblongo, stylo elongato, stigmate obscure 
tricuspidato, 
M. Leichtlinii, Baker in Gard. Chron., 1875, p. 234. 
This is a very distinct new species of Milla. It is a 
native of the Chilian Andes, and was imported to Europe by 
our indefatigable correspondent, Max Leichtlin, Esq., who 
presented a living plant and seeds to the Kew collection, 
where it flowered at the latter end of January, 1874. It is” 
quite hardy, and the flowers are slightly fragrant. In struc- 
ture it comes near M. porrifolia, Baker (Bot. Mag., t. 5997), 
but the habit is totally different, the peduncles and pedicels 
being so short as to mix up the flowers amongst the leaves 
near the surface of the soil, and here the flower is much 
larger, with a tube twice as long as the segments, instead of 
only a third or half as long. There is a M. sessiliflora in 
Chili of similar habit to the present species, which has not 
yet been introduced, with leaves a line broad and solitary 
flowers with narrow segments. 
Dxscr. Corm globose, an inch thick, sending out copious 
radical fibres, and furnished with a long, thick neck sheathed 
by the bases of the outer leaves. Produced leaves about half- 
a-dozen to a cluster, contemporary with the flowers and over- 
topping them, erect, glabrous, bright green, lorate, obtuse, 
three to four inches long, a quarter of an inch broad, 
channelled down the face. Umbels two to three to a corm, 
June Ist, 1876. 
