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Tas, 6111, 
CAMPSIDIUM cattenss, 
Native of Chili. 
Nat. Ord. Bianonracem.—Tribe BIGNONIER. 
Genus Campsipium, (Seemann in Bonplandia, vol. x. (1862), p, 147). 
Campsiprum chilense; frutex volubilis glaberrimus, foliis Oppositis impari- 
pinnatis, foliolis oppositis ellipticis v. ovato- v. elliptico- v. lanceolato- 
oblongis obtusis v. apiculatis integerrimis serratisve rachi antice sulcato, 
racemis terminalibus pendulis 6-10-floris, floribus coccineis gracile 
pedicellatis, 
Campsipium chilense; Reiss ¢ Seem.; ec Seem. in Bonplandia, vol. x, 
p. 147, t. 11; Gard. Chron., 1870, p. 1182, cum ic xylog. 
Tecoma Guarume, Hook. in Bot. Mag., t. 4896 in adnot. (non DC.) 
T. valdiviana, Philippi in Linnea, 1857, p. 14. 
T. mirabilis, Hort. 
This very beautiful climber is a native of Chili and the 
Archipelago of Chiloe, and was discovered on the island of 
Huafto by Dr. Eights, an American voyager, who sent a small 
collection of Chilian and Fuegian plants to Sir William Hooker 
some fifty years ago, amongst which is this plant. It has 
subsequently been collected by many botanists, most recently 
by Dr. Cunningham, naturalist to the surveying expedition 
of H.M.S. Nassau, who gathered it as far south as Wellington 
Island in lat. 40° S., where it would seem to be common. Its 
northern limit is probably Arique, near Valdivia, lat. 50° 8., 
where it was found by Lechler. It is not a little remarkable 
that so beautiful a plant, and one found through so many 
degrees of latitude in Chili, should have escaped the obser- 
vation of C, Gay, whose Flora Chilensis, published in 1 845, 
does not include it. The equally conspicuous Berberidopsis 
corallina (Tab. nost. 5343) which, like Campsidium, 1s a 
native of the neighbourhood of the maritime capital of 
Valdivia, was also unknown to that author, though he spent 
many years exploring that country for the Chilian govern- 
ment. Iam indebted to Messrs. Veitch for the plant here 
JULY Ist, 1874. 
