times continuous. Scapes éight and ten inches to a foot 
high, pubescent, having the flowers in loose, umbellate 
panicles at the extremity, of from two to four, and some- 
times, as in one of my wild imens, of eight flowers ; the 
peduncles ternate. Calyx 4-partite, the segments ovato- 
cordate, spreading, externally glanduloso-pubescent and 
reddish. Corolla large, horizontally inclined, nearly hemi- 
spherical, yellow, the under and flat side beautifully dotted 
with red: upper lip very small, closed, ovate, bifid, ex- 
ternally minutely pubescent ; at the base within are two 
transverse brown bands. Stamens meeting together in 
front of the style, short : Anthers oblong, yellow. Germen 
nearly spherical, surrounded by a green gland, pubescent; 
Style rather short ; Stigma capitate, yellow. 
Seeds of this plant were sent by Mr. Crurcxsuanxs from 
near the Guardia, Chili, to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, 
in 1826, and they blossomed in the stove in August, 1827. 
Dried specimens were likewise sent by the same friend from 
the same country, as well as by Dr. Gittres, who detected 
it growing gee on the sides of a small rivulet which 
arises a little below the Casa de la Combre, on descending 
from the top of the Cordillera, on the Chiliside, flowering in 
March. This gentleman had named it in his MSS. C. an- 
dicola, an appellation I should willingly have retained had 
not Sir James Smiru already figured and described the 
plant in his Icones Plantarum, under the name here adopt- 
ed. That plant, however, as well as LamArcx’s C. biflora, 
which appears to be the same, are natives of the Straights 
of Magellan, and herice the species seems to have an exten- 
sive geographical range. Vann considers the JoveLLana 
scapiflora of Ruiz and Pavon to be synonymous with this, 
but that has a flower of a totally different structure. 
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Fig. 1. Flower soon from tlie ‘undabtde? ; i Salleweir ize. 2. Front view of 
a Flower, with the Lower Lip forced down, 3. Pistil—-Magnified. oe 
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