Tas. 4892. 
LAPAGERIA RoSEA: var. ALBIFLORA. 
Rose-coloured Lapageria: white-flowered var. 
Nat. Ord. SMILACEZ.—HExaNDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4447.) 
LAPAGERIA rosea. 
LapaGeEria rosea. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. et Chil. v. 3. p. 65.t.297. Spreng. 
Syst. Veget. v. 2. p.99. Kunth, Enum. Plant. v. 5. p. 284. Walp. Ann. 
Bot. Syst. v. 3. p. 646. 
Var. albiflora; floribus albis basi subroseis immaculatis. (Tas. 4892.) 
In our anxiety to figure the Lapageria rosea in the ‘ Botanical 
Magazine’ as soon as the species was introduced to our gardens 
by Mr. Wheelwright and the Messrs. Veitch, of the Exeter and 
Chelsea Exotic Nurseries, we made use, as then acknowledged, 
of a coloured drawing by Mr. William Lobb, executed in Chili 
from the plant in Joco matali ; and it was no small satisfaction to _ 
us to find, when the plants flowered with us, as they do abun-— 
dantly in a cool and moist greenhouse (the temperate Fernery), 
that the colourmg was_ extremely accurate ; that is, as regards 
the usual state of the plant. Ruiz and Pavon, however, had ob- 
- served that the flowers vary from “rose to rose-crimson.” 
In the Jardin des Plantes, at Paris, a fine healthy plant sent by 
M. Abadi from Chili, has produced large white flowers, approach- 
ing indeed to cream-colour, with a tinge of rose at the base : 
the flowerstalks each two- to three-flowered. Our artist being in 
Paris at the time, Professor Decaisne obligingly granted permis- 
sion for a figure to be taken of it for publication in this Magazine. 
The species being fully described under our Tab. 4447, we 
need not here say more than that besides the greater size and 
different colour of the flowers, the bracts are larger and greener 
upon the peduncles, covering them for their entire length. 
Fig. 1. Pistil:—waé. size. 2. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified. 
JANUARY Ist, 1856. 
