mountains. C. Gay in his Flora of Chili refers O. ver- 
bascifolia, Bertero, to it as a variety. 
Seeds of C. andina were sent to the Royal Gardens in 
1891 by Dr. F. Philippi of Santiago, Chili, an indefatigable 
botanist and explorer of the Chilian Andes, they were 
sown in pots, in a frame, and of the plants reared, that 
here figured flowered in the Alpine Hotise in June of 
the present year. Its hardiness, or the contrary, has to 
be ascertained.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx and ovary; 2, upper lip of corolla and stamen :—Both 
enlarged. 
