Tas. 6465, 
LUZURIAGA nrapioans. 
Native of Chili. 
Nat. Ord. Sminacrz.—Tribe PHILESIER. 
Genus Luzuriaaa, Ruiz et Pav.; (Endl. Gen. Pl. p. 154.) 
Luzvrraca radicans ; glaberrima, caulibus gracilibus ramosis flexuosis angulatis 
basi radicantibus, foliis distichis ellipticis oblongis lineari-oblongisve acutis v. 
apiculatis subtus glaucis costatis et 6-12-nerviis, floribus solitariis v. 2-3-nis 
axillaribus nutantibus, staminibus conniventibus filamento brevi lato crasso, 
antheris anguste lanceolato-subulatis praefloratione erectis antice dehiscentibus, 
ovarii placentis 4~5-ovulatis axim non attingentibus. 
L. radicans, Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv., et Chili, ¥ol. iii. p. 66, t. 298; Presl. Rel. 
Haenk. vol. ii, p. 130; Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech Voy. p. 48; Baker in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xiv. p. 573. 
A very elegant green-house plant, a native of a consider-. 
able extent of the coast of Chili, from the latitude of 
Valdivia to the Straits of Magellan, and also of the plains 
of Chiloe. It is usually found in forests, rooting up the 
mossy trunks of trees. Its roots are used as a substitute 
for sarsaparilla in its native country, on which account, 
probably, the authors of the genus named it after a 
celebrated Spanish physician, Don Ignatio Marie Ruiz de 
Luzuriaga. According to the collector Bridges, its stems 
are used for rope-making. 
The genus Luzuriaga consists of but one species; the 
LL. erecta of Kunth being, as originally and rightly described 
by Sir W. Hooker, a true Callixene (C. polyphylla, Hook. Ic. 
Pl. t.674; tab. nost. 5192), differing wholly from Luzuriaga 
in the structure of the anthers, as pointed out, indeed, by 
its author, and which renders Kunth’s subsequently remov- 
ing it to this genus quite unaccountable. Both these 
genera are closely allied to Philesia (tab. nost. 4738), and to 
Lapageria (tab. 4447), and they together form a group of 
the Sinilacee, or a separate order of the Smilaceous alliance, 
DECEMBER Ist, 1879. 
