Tas, 7414, 
ARGYLIA cANESCENS. 
Native of Chili. 
Nat. Ord. Bignonraceam, 
Genus Arerita, D. Don. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1043.) 
ARGYLIA canescens; candice erecto cylindraceo, caules annuos erectos ascen- 
dentesve simplices ramososve laxe foliatos pilosos subapice emittentes 
foliis alternis distantibus longe petiolatis pubescentibus rotatim 7- 
foliolatis, foliolis petiolulatis ovatis bipinnatifidis lobis ultimis brevibus 
obtusis, floribus apicem versus caulis subcapitatim corymbosis breviter 
pedicellatis additis pancis dissitis, bracteis lanceolatis icellos 
subwquantibus, sepalis linearibus obtusis laxe villosis, corolla aures 
ubescentis tubo infundibulari-campanulato intus rubro striato, limbi vix 
ilabiati lobis 5 subequalibus late obovatis retusis, capsula lineari 
-  rostro erecto. 
A. canescens, D. Don in Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. (Apr.-June, 1829), p. 88. 
G. Don Gen, Syst. vol. iv. p. 229. DC. Prodr. vol. ix. p. 235. C. Gay 
Fl. Chil. vol. iv. p. 441. 
A. radiata, Endl. Iconog. vol. xii. p. 71. 
Argylia is a very remarkable genus of Bignoniacex, con- 
fined to the Andean region of Chili and Peru. About 
twenty species have been described, but so imperfectly 
that it is impossible to say how few or many of them are 
really distinct. The genus was founded on a plant figured 
by Louis Feuillée,* in his “Journal des Observations 
physiques mathematiques et botaniques, faites par ordre 
du Roi, sur les Cotes Orientales de |’Amérique Méridional, 
et dans les Indes Occidentales, depuis 1707-1712,” pub- 
lished in 1714, with fifty plates of plants. Amongst the 
latter is an Argylia, a native of Peru, which differs from 
A. canescens in the broader, more entire leaflets, the long 
tube of the corolla and other characters. The genus was 
named in honour of Archibald Campbell, third Duke of 
Argyle (who died 1761), a great lover of plants, and the 
introducer of many American trees and shrubs into 
Whitton Park, Isleworth, for many years his residence, of 
* A notice of the Life and Labours of Friar Feuillée will be found under 
tab. 7249, Pasithea coerulea. 
May Ist, 1895, 
