This very ornamental plant was received at the garden of 
the Caledonian Horticultural Society, from Chili. It pro- 
duced in the greenhouse a succession of flowers during 
nearly the whole summer and autumn of 1839. It very 
much resembles Garvoguta grandiflora, but may be distin- 
guished from this especially by its foliage being perfectly 
glabrous even when young, by its patent not erect branches, 
and by its shorter style. 2 
Descr. Shrub erect, much branched, four-sided, branches 
spreading, bark cracked. Leaves petiolate, ovate, reflected 
in the edges, glabrous on both sides, of lively green above, 
dotted and rather paler below, where also the middle rib 
and oblique veins are prominent. Peduncles (three lines 
long) axillary, solitary, collected towards the extremities 
of the branches, three-flowered, glabrous; pedicels rather 
longer than the peduncle, the lateral ones having a small 
adpressed bractea on their outer side at the base, and two 
opposite ones below their middle, the central one without 
any bractea. Flowers handsome, pendulous. Calyx (one- 
fourth of an inch long) slightly curved, green, sprinkled 
with glands, and very obscure pubescence, teeth erect, 
nearly equal, the uppermost rather the smallest. Corolla 
five times as long as the calyx, red purple; tube clavato- 
funnel-shaped, slightly compressed laterally, slightly pubes- 
cent on the outside, hairy within, especially on the lower 
side and toward the limb ; limb two lipped ; upper lip slightly 
reflected, of two rounded teeth ; lower lip of three more 
recurved, linear segments. Stamens exserted, straight, dis- 
tant, the two longer projecting forwards from the centre of 
the flower, the two shorter parallel to and above them ; 
Jilaments colourless, adherent to about the middle of the 
tube, above which they are free, and at the point of sepa- 
ration the corolla projects in little external, corresponding 
eminences ; anthers dark lilac, of two, much divaricated 
lobes, opening along the vertex ; pollen white. Pistil equal 
to the longest stamens, pale lilac towards the top; stigma 
bifid, segments nearly equal, subulate, curved outwards ; 
germen-lobes erect ; placed upon a fleshy disk, which is 
longer than the lobes. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Flower laid open: magnified. 
