Tas. 4501. 
“LARDIZABALA BITERNATA. 
Biternate-leaved Lardizabala. 
Nat. Ord. LarpizaBaLE®.—Die@cia HEXANDRIA. 
Cen. Char. Masc. Calyx 6-phyllus, foliolis carnosis, exterioribus ovatis in 
westivatione valvatis, interioribus ‘angustioribus, spathulatis, acuminatis. Petala 
6, biseriata, oblongo- y. lineari-lanceolata, acutiuscula, exteriora paullo latiora. 
Stamina 6. Ovariorum rudimenta 2-3 plus minusve attenuata. Fam. Calye. 
fol. ut in mase. Petala exteriora spathulata, inferne marginibus inflexis concava, 
crassiuscula. Stamina 6, filamentis brevibus, carnosis, antheris oblongis abor- 
tivis. Ovaria 3, cylindracea, stigmate sessili conico apiculata, multiovulata, 
ovulis globosis sessilibus parieti alveolato 8-seriatim immersis alternantibus. 
Bacce polysperme, stigmate persistente apiculate. Semina campylitropa, com- 
pressa, subreniformia, test& papyracea fusc4, hili cicatriculé basi et lateraliter 
notata; perispermum magnum carnoso-corneum albidum; embryo parvulus, 
subturbinatus, radicula cotyledonibus brevibus subsqualiiFrutices Chilenses 
scandentes, foliis bi- v. triternatis, foliolis integris v. crenato-dentatis glaberrimis 
nitidis exstipulatis, nervatione foliorum Berberidum, Inflorescentia azillaris, pe- 
dunculo basi und bractea subreniformi coriacea suffulto, in masculis plurifloro, in 
‘em. unifloro. Flores purpurei ? pedicellati, pedicellis bracteolulatis, Dene. 
LaRDIzaBALA biternata ; foliis 2-3- (sepe simpliciter) ternatis, foliolis ob- 
longis acutis basi ineequalibus hinc inde subdentatis, bracteis ‘ad peduncu- 
lorum basin 2 magnis ineequaliter cordatis. Dene. 
LaRp1IzaBata biternata. Ruiz et Pav. Syst. p. 288; Prodr. t.37. Vent. in 
Voy. dela Peyr. v. 4. p. 265. ¢.6,7,8. De Cand.Prodr. v.1. p. 95. Dene. 
Mem. Lardizab. in Arch. du Mus. v.1. p.188. Hook. et Arn. Contrib, to Fl. 
of S. Am. in Bot. Mise, v.2. p.135. Cl. Gay, Fl. Chil. v.1. p. 69. 
A climbing, copiously-leaved, evergreen shrub, native of Chili, 
and growing as far south as Concepcion, whence it was naturally 
supposed to be hardy, and experience has proved the correctness 
of this opinion, for it has braved the winter of 1849-50 without 
any covering or protection, other than that afforded by a wall, 
both at Exeter and at Kew. George Thomas Davy, Esq., who 
has the credit of introducing this plant by sending it to Messrs. 
Veitch of Exeter, writes to them thus :—‘ When I first saw it in 
the Province of Concepcion, I was so much struck with the sin- 
gularly dark colour of the flowers, and the beauty of the foliage, 
MARCH Ist, 1850. _ 
