single-flowered, with a pair of linear reflexed dracts at the setting 
on of the flower. Calyz-tube turbinate, dotted : Limé of five (or 
rarely four) recurved, linear /odes, exactly resembling the bracts. 
Petals five (or four), erect, orbicular, very concave (forming a 
globose corolla), white, tinged with rose. Stamens numerous: 
anthers red. Style shorter than the petals, thick, subulate. W.7.H. 
Cunt. One of the many new shrubs and trees lately intro- 
duced from Chili by Messrs. Veitch and Son. It is, no doubt, 
sufficiently hardy for the climate of the southern and western 
coasts of Great Britain, and also for other less favoured parts of 
the island when the winters are mild; but we would recom- 
mend its being treated, at present, as a greenhouse plant. 
Experiments should, however, be made in all situations, to 
ascertain the degree of cold it will bear; for if truly hardy it 
will prove a great acquisition to the ornamental shrubbery. 
Like most of the genus, it strikes freely from cuttings. J. 8. 
Fig. 1. Bracts, calyx, and pistil :—magnified. 
