Botanic Garden in July 1795; whence, in all probability, the 
plant was introduced into Kew in 1798 by M. Thouin, 
from whom there is a dried specimen in Bentham’s Her- 
baria (now at Kew). De Candolle and Sweet both say that 
the native country is unknown; but there are plenty of wild 
specimens in the Kew Herbarium, gathered by Gillies near 
Mendoza, growing in uncultivated fields at an elevation of 
two thousand five hundred to three thousand feet; as also by 
Tweedie, in the Argentine Republic, and by C. Darwin at 
Bahia Blanca. For its re-introduction we are indebted to 
our old correspondent, Professor Jameson, formerly of Quito, | 
who after his removal to Chili sent seed from the neigh- 
bourhood of San Juan to his friend, Isaac Anderson 
Henry, Esq., F.L.S., who communicated the flowering speci- 
mens here figured in June of the present year. 
Descr. A branching undershrub two to four feet high, 
uniformly clothed with a soft white tomentum. eaves one 
to two inches long, longer than the petioles, 3-lobed and 
coarsely unequally crenate-toothed ; mid-lobe longest, ovate 
or oblong, acute, lateral spreading, obtuse ; stipules subulate, 
persistent though withering. Flowers vermilion-red, one 
to one and a quarter inch in diameter, in axillary few- 
flowered cymose racemes; peduncle and short pedicels 
slender; bracts beneath the calyx three, subulate. Calya 
hemispherical, 5-lobed to the middle, lobes acute. Pedals 
obcordate, claw purplish. “Stamens with rather short fila- 
ments. Ségmas very numerous.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Ovary; 2, ventral section of a cell of do. :—both magnified. 
