downy, pale in the bud, slit on the upper side for nearly its 
whole length, through which the style and column of sta- 
mens are more or less protruded, limb deflexed, five-cleft, 
and somewhat two-lipped. Combined filaments, a cylin- 
drical, slender tube, reddish. Anthers lead-coloured. 
Seeds of this very beautiful plant were communicated to 
the Glasgow Botanic Garden from Chili, the native country 
of the species, by ALExanpeR CrucxsHanxs, Esq., and 
blossoms were produced in the greenhouse in August, 1832. 
Like the Losetia Tupa it will probably be found to be 
hardy enough in England to bear the open air, and will 
then prove a great acquisition. It is, however, a much 
smaller plant than that, in all its parts, bearing a much 
shorter and more lax raceme of flowers, but which are 
equally brilliant in point of colour. It does not appear to 
be known to any author except Cavanities, who has given 
a very accurate figure of it in the work above quoted. 
