Indians of Chili. Gay informs us that a decoction of the 
wood and leaves, and especially of the bark, mixed with 
the Tayu, Chuquiraga leucorylon, Poepp., is sometimes 
used in Valdivia in cases of abscess of the stomach. On 
the authority of Murillo, Chatterton and Pennesse state 
that the leaves and bark are employed as a cathartic and 
diuretic, and in the preparation of gargles for all kinds of 
inflammation of the throat. : 
Lomatia ferruginea is cultivated in the Temperate 
House at Kew, but the plant, now about 4 ft. high, has 
not flowered. The material figured was from a fine 
specimen growing in the beautiful gardens of the Earl 
Annesley at Castlewellan, Co. Down, Ireland, whence it 
was sent by Mr. T. Ryan in July, 1906. At Castlewellan, 
Karl Annesley informs us, “it is so hardy that the severest 
frost and the most biting east winds do not affect it. The 
plant is now about twenty years old, and is 9 ft. high, 
with a circumference of 27 ft. at the largest part.” 
Descr.—A much-branched shrub 10-20 ft. high, or 
sometimes a small tree, densely covered on the younger 
‘parts with a ferruginous velvet-like pubescence. Leaves 
shortly stalked, bipinnatisect, or sometimes tripinnatisect’ 
at the base, bipinnatipartite towards the apex, spreading, 
leathery, oblong-ovate, usually about 8 in. long, sometimes 
as much as 16 in. long, 4-8 in. broad, finally almost 
glabrous; pinnae in 5-15 pairs, oblong-lanceolate, usually 
13-3} in. long, shortly stalked ; segments ovate-lanceolate, 
4-2? in. long, entire, or with 1-6 more or less spinescent 
lobes. Flowers about } in. long, golden-yellow and scarlet 
outside, bright scarlet, with yellow at the base and apex 
of the segments inside, covered with ferruginous adpressed 
hairs outside. rut oblong, stalked, slightly curved, 1-14 
in. long, acuminate. Seeds with an oblong, obliquely 
truncate wing at the apex.—S. A. Sxkan, 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, stamen attached to perianth-segment; 3, pistil; 4, section 
of ovary ; 5, ovule :—all enlarged. 
