of the Mainland from Concepcion southward, and the Island 
of Chiloe, which is its southern limit. It was introduced into 
cultivation by Messrs. Veitch, and thrives in a cool damp 
conservatory amongst moss and stones or stumps of trees, 
or with a little care it may be trained to form a beautiful 
basket plant, flowering in the summer months. : 
Desor. Stem very slender, flexuous, two to four feet 
long, sparingly branched, ascending mossy tree-trunks or 
straggling over the ground; branches as thick as twine, 
brittle, rooting at the nodes, red brown, very sparsely hairy. 
Leaves one-half to three-fourths of an inch long, opposite, 
subsessile, bifarious, ovate, broadly elliptic or orbicular, 
obtuse, rather fleshy, quite entire or with a few shallow 
crenatures, margins recurved, nerves obscure, upper surface 
dark green glabrous opaque, lower pale punctulate. 
Peduncles solitary or in opposite axils, filiform, one-half to 
one and a half inch long, glabrous, one-flowered. Flowers 
pendulous, scarlet. Sepals five, one-eighth of an inch long, 
narrow, linear, or lanceolate, obtuse, bristly with white 
hairs. Corolla three-quarters to one inch long; tube elon- 
gate, ventricose, constricted at the throat and suddenly at 
the base into a very narrow cylinder, obscurely pubescent ; 
limb oblique, lobes much shorter than the tube, rounded, 
spreading. Stamens inserted near the base of the corolla, 
filaments slender, free, two posterior with perfect anthers 
far exserted; two anterior filiform with clavate fips or 
minute anthers; fifth a very short staminode; anthers 
shortly oblong, free ; cells parallel, distinct. Disk obsolete. 
Ovary superior, attached by a broad base; style capillary, 
exserted, stigma small, simple.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Peduncle, calyx, and ovary; 2, base of corolla laid open, showing the 
shorter stamens and staminode ; 3, front, and 4, back view of anthers of longer 
stamens :—~all enlarged, 
