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‘intus punctis albis maculata,” without 
Tan. 4447, 
LAPAGERIA Roszka. 
Rose-coloured Lapageria. 
Nat. Ord. SmiLace®.—Hauxanpria MonoGynt. : 
Gen. Char. Perianthium corollinam hexaphyllum campanulato-connivens : 
Joliola exteriora basi concavo-carinata, interiora latiora subunguiculata. Stamina 
6, imis perianthii foliolis inserta, alterna paulo majora; jilamenta subulata, 
libera, anthere basi fixe. Ovarium uniloculare, placentis parietalibus tribus, 
ad suturas longitudinalibus.  Ovu/a plurima, muco involuta, orthotropa. Stylus 
cylindricus: s¢igma clavatum. Bacca ovato-oblonga, unilocularis, polysperma. 
Semina obovata, truncata, cornea, luteo-fulvescentia, in pulpe nidulantia.— 
Suffrutex Chilensis, volubilis ; radice fasciculata, caule teretiusculo, foliis alternis, 
ovato-lanceolatis, cuspidatis, nervosis, reticulato-venosis, pedunculis axillaribus 
solitariis, unifloris, squamoso-bracteatis. Endl. 
LAPAGERIA rosea. 
LapaGerta rosea. Ruiz. et Pav. Fl. Peruv. v.3. p. 65. t. 297. Spreng. Syst. 
Veget. v. 2. p. 99. 
So 
No European cultivator of plants could see the figure of Lapa- 
geria in Ruiz and Pavon, and read their deseription of the flowers 
“penduli, formosissimi: corolla rosea, aliquando roseo-punicea, 
an earnest desire to 
possess living specimens ; but it was not till the year 1847 that 
the Royal Gardens of Kew were first favoured with one from 
Concepcion (Chili) through the kindness of Rd. Wheelwright, 
Esq., an American gentleman, who has been instrumental in 
establishing steam-navigation 1 the Pacific, and who thus en- 
joyed superior means for the transport to England. The 
following year, Messrs. Veitch and Sons ome a gre 
in j rting it, t h their collector, Mr. Thomas Lob) ; — 
te Dalat, eo d now six feet high with 
but though extremely flourishing and 
Messrs. Veitch, it is to be regretted it has not yet blossomed : 
and our flowers are taken from dried specimens, aided by coloured 
figures made in the native locality. This colour 1s said, by 
to rose-crimson, as repre- 
Ruiz and Pavon, to vary from rose 
sented in our figure. De. Lindley constituted of this and of the 
nearly allied, and scarcely less beauti 
JUNE Ist, 1849. a2 
ful, Philesia, the Order 
