exclusively inhabitants of the Chilian Andes, and these have 
simple or undivided leaves, of a harsh and rigid texture, still fur- 
nished with their peculiar tendrils at the extremity. We have 
long ago (Hook. Bot. Miscellany, v. 1. p.7) called attention to 
the desirableness of introducing many of these to our gardens. 
One Brazilian species of the pinnated-leaved section was intro- 
duced to Kew Gardens so long ago as 1827, and was the first 
plate given in the Second Series of our ‘ Botanical Magazine,’ in 
1827 (Tab. 2705); but that one is perhaps the least ornamental 
of them all. The Mutisia grandifora of Humb. et Bonpl. Pl. 
AEquinoct. t. 50, has capitula six inches long and five inches 
broad! Of the second section, from Chili, with simple leaves, 
a curious, rather than handsome species, was in cultivation in 
England, J. /atifolia, Don, figured in Sweet’s Brit. Fl. Gard. 
v. 3. t. 288; but it has, as far as we know, ever since been 
lost to our gardens. We wish it may be permanently re- 
placed by the present truly splendid species, of which we have 
received flowering specimens from Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of 
the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, in July of the present year, 
1861. This plant has stood the last severe winter unharmed in 
the open air at Exeter, without shelter. It is a native of the 
Andes of Chillan (d/r. Pearce, who forwarded plants to the 
Messrs. Veitch), and of the Cordillera of Antuco (Pwppig) ; and 
is assuredly, if not the largest, the handsomest-flowered species 
of the whole genus. It is to be feared that the fruticose plants 
of the high and dry Andes of Chili are difficult of cultivation, 
and require a very peculiar treatment. 
Descr. Climbing to the height of a few feet, with slightly 
branched stems. Leaves remote, alternate, oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate, quite entire, of a harsh and rigid texture, dark-green 
above, pale and glaucous beneath, costate, distantly and rather 
obscurely penniveined, veins horizontal, forked at the apex, and 
there anastomosing with the adjacent ones; the apex is termi- 
nated with a bifid ¢endri/, the bases of the leaves are much and 
gradually decurrent, so as to form wings on the stem and 
branches. Flower (or rather capitulum) very large, solitary, 
four and a half inches in the spread of the ray, which is of a 
brilliant ‘orange-colour. The czvolucre very large, subcylindri- 
cal, broader at the base, where the scales are lax; the rest of 
them (all being ovate) are appressed, inappendiculate, blue- 
green, tinged with purple. 
Fig. 1. Floret of the ray,—unatural size. 
fied. 3. Florét of-the disk 
5. Stigma,—magnified. 
e. 2. Hair from the pappus,——magni- 
»—natural size. 4. Hair from the ray,—-magnified. 
