which the greater part were transferred on his death to 
Kew, but some still remain. 
The genus is here for the first time figured from a 
specimen cultivated in Europe. It was presented to the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, by Thomas King, Hsq., of Garnett 
Hill, Glasgow, in 1892, along with a collection of bulbs 
and seeds from Valparaiso. It flowered in a cool house 
in July, 1893, and again in 1894, The plant is not un- 
common in Chili, from the latitude of Concepcion to that 
of Coquimbo, ascending to 7000 feet on the Andes. 
Descr.—Caudex several inches high, cylindric, three- 
quarters of an inch in diam. or more, contracted at the 
apex, emitting from near the top annual leafing and 
flowering stems ; bark pale, covered with transverse scars. 
Flowering stem strict, erect, twelve to eighteen inches high, 
simple or branched, as thick as a goose-quill, terete, green, 
pubescent. Leaves alternate, distant; petiole four to eight 
inches long, pubescent, terminated by a whorl of pubes- 
cent, broadly ovate bi-tri-pinnatifid petiolulate leaflets, 
two to three and a half inches long, the segments of which 
are narrow and obtuse. Flowers subcorymbosely disposed 
on the summit of the stem, with a few distantly scattered 
lower down the stem; bracts lanceolate, green, half an 
inch long, about as long as the pedicels, softly hairy, as 18 
the calyx. Sepals one-third of an inch long, linear, obtuse, 
erect. Corolla golden-yellow, with blood-red interrupted 
streaks in the throat opposite the three lower lobes ; tube 
nearly one inch long, glandular-pubescent, narrow at the 
base, then dilated and sub-campanulate ; limb one and 
a quarter to one and a half inch in diam., lobes subequal, 
broadly obovate, retuse. Stamens 4, didynamous, included 
in the corolla tube, inserted at the tip of the narrow por- 
tion; staminode minute styliform. Disk naked, 4-lobed. 
Ovary oblong, shortly stipitate, pubescent; style slender, 
stigma of two ovate lamella. Capsule four inches long, 
deflexed, narrow, cylindric, with a long, subulate, straight 
beak. Seeds many, minute, subdidymously orbicular, 
beautifully striate-—J. D. D. 
Fig. 1, Calyx, style and stigma; base of tube of corolla laid open, with 
stamens and staminode; 3, anther; 4, disk and ovary; 5, capsule of 
natural size); 6 and 7, seeds :—All but fig. 5 enlarged. 
