sea in the Andes, from the Argentine Republic to Peru. 
Seeds of it were collected in February, 1902, at about 
10,000 ft., on the Argentine side of the Portillo Pass, east 
of Santiago, by Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., who raised a fine 
plant in his garden, and communicated the flowering stem 
represented in the accompanying figure. 
CQ. coronata was first introduced from Chile (in 1872, 
according to Nicholson’s Dictionary of Gardening) by 
Messrs. Haage & Schmidt, and was figured by them as 
Blumenbachia coronata in the ‘‘ Revue Horticole ” for 1874. 
Urban and Gilg, in their monograph of the Loasaceae, re- 
duce B. coronata, Haage et Schmidt, to Caiophora superba, 
but the figures and description in the “ Revue Horticole ” 
leave little doubt that it is the true C. coronata, Hook. et Arn. 
Five other species of Caiophora have appeared in this 
Magazine, namely: C. aequatoriana, t. 6134 (Blumenbachia 
contorta) ; C. superba, t. 6143 (Blumenbachia chuquitensis) ; 
C. lateritia, t. 8632, and C. Pentlandii, t. 4095 (both. 
under Loasa) ; and O. canarinoides, t. 5022 (under Iilairea). 
Descr.—A perennial herb. Stems several from the base, 
decumbent. Leaves opposite and decussate, with a long 
petiole, bipinnatisect, armed on both surfaces with long 
stinging bristles, and whitish-pubescent on the lower sur- 
face with small barbed hairs. Flowers pentamerous. 
Calyz densely clothed with long’ bristles ; lobes pinnatisect. 
Petals white, boat-shaped, contracted at the base, about 
13 in, long, bristly and pubescent outside, glabrous inside. 
Nectaries rectangular when flattened out, hardly } in. long, 
and only slightly broader, bearing three thread-like pro- 
cesses outside, about a third above the base, shallowly 
3-lobed, the middle lobe much broader than the lateral 
ones. Inner staminodes without appendages. Capsule 
straight, with ten prominent nerves.—T. A. SpraGue. 
Fig. 1, hairs from leaf 
3 2, nect 3, : “ 3 : 
and style :—all enlarged. ary ; 3, an inner staminode; 4, top of orey 
