Tas. 4738. 
PHILESIA. suxtro.tia. 
Box-leaved Philesia. 
Nat. Ord. Smrzacrm.—Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi. Calyx triphyllus, basi bracteatus, foliolis 
oblongis membranaceo-scariosis erectis. Petala 3, calyce 4-plo longiora majora- 
que, obovato-oblonga, mucronulata, campanulato-conniventia, ima basi in tubum 
connata, intus glandula seu tubercula nectarifera, cereacea, siccitate venosa, subtus 
glauca. Stamina 6, longitudine fere petalorum. Filamenta inferne monadelpha et 
ima basi petalorum conjuncta. Anther@ erect, oblonge, subsagittate, basifixee. 
Ovarium ovale, trigonum, liberum, uniloculare, placentis tribus parietalibus. Ovula 
plurima. Sfylus stamina paululum superans. Stigma dilatatum, margine reflexo 
subtrilobo. Bacca ovali-globosa, (ut videtur) pulposa, polysperma, mucronata.— 
Suffrutex Magellanicus, erectus, ramosus, ramis alternis squamoso-bracteatis apice 
precipue foliosis. Folia alterna, lineari-elliptica, coriacea, mucronata, pennivenia, 
subtus glauca, margine reflexa ; in petiolis brevibus articulatis. Flores speciosi, nu- 
tantes, in ramos terminales solitarii, brevissime pedunculati, pedunculis dracteatis. 
PaILesia buzifolia. 
Patizsza buxifolia. Lam. Ill. t. 248. Eneycl.v.5. p. 269. Kunth, Enum. Plant. 
v. 5. p. 285. Lindl. Veg. Kingd. ed. 2. p. 217 cum Ic. floris. Hook. fil. 
Fl, Antarct, v. 2. p. 35. 
Discovered in the Straits of Magelhaens by Commerson, and de- 
tected by Banks and Solander in Good Success Bay : since found 
to extend along the west coast of Antarctic America to Chiloe 
and Valdivia by various navigators and naturalists, from most of 
whom we possess specimens. In Valdivia Mr. Bridges says it 
is called “ Pepino,” and is found at the summut of the Cordillera 
there, in marshy places under Alerse trees. It was long a great 
desideratum to our gardens, till at length Messrs. Veitch, of 
Exeter (and now, happily for all lovers of rare and beautiful 
plants, also of the King’s Road Nursery, Chelsea,—late Messrs. 
Knight and Perry), introduced it through their collector Mr. 
William Lobb, and gratified the numerous visitors of the Chis- 
wick Flower-show, on the 12th June, 1853, by the exhibition of 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1853. 
