lips touch, pubescent within, especially towards the base, 
obscurely striated, depressed at its base, closed, lower lip 
larger than the upper ; stamens projecting into a depres- 
sion in the lower lip: filaments rising from the base of 
the lower lip, hairy, stout, slightly curved upwards, pitted 
on their lower side near the anthers. Anthers pale yellow, 
placed transversely on the filaments, bilobular, lobes con- 
nected to each other longitudinally, and furrowed along 
their anterior surface, where they burst and discharge a 
white pollen. Germen conical, furrowed on two sides, 
bilocular, green, viscid. Style, filiform, straight, longer 
than the stamens; stigma small, ovules very numerous, 
and attached to a large central receptacle, the transverse 
section of which is kidney-shaped, and entire in each locu- 
lament. Granam. 
This very handsome and novel species of SiipPER-woRT 
was raised in the Botanic Gardens, both in Edinburgh and 
Glasgow, from seeds received from Dr. Giuties, Mendoza ; 
but it flowered first in the collection of P. Nem, Esq. 
Canonmills, Edinburgh, who had obtained the plant from 
the same liberal source, in the summer of 1828. Mr. 
Cruicxsuanxs also has obligingly sent me specimens mark- 
ed as.“ Palpe’’ of the natives, who use it to procure a 
yellow dye *. 
The blossoms have a slight fragrance, not unlike that of 
the flowers of the Lagurnum. 
* I mentioned under Cau. arachnoidea, (tab. 2874.) that Dr. GrLLiss 
had communicated to me some further information respecting that plant, which 
I should insert under the present species. The Cauiceoxarta, he says, “ de- 
scribed by Dr. Granam under the name of C. arachnoidea, and to which 1 
had assigned the specific appellation of C. tinctoria, in consequence of its 
utility in dying, I first found, near the silyer mines of St. Pedro Nolasco, 
on the summit of the mountain so called, near the junction of the river Maypt 
with the Rio del Yeso and del Volcan. On a subsequent journey across the 
Cordillera, further to the South, and opposite to San Fernando, I also met 
with it in abundance, growing in all the most elevated vallies which I visited, 
in the vicinity of la Casa de las Damas. Here many people were employed in 
digging up the roots, which they dry and collect in bundles for sale. Ib 
Chili, where this ‘plant is in great use, under the name. Relbwn, for dying 
woollen cloths of a deep crimson colour, the alum-earth called Poleura, © 
employed as a‘mordant in this process, is obtained abundantly from a mown” 
tain in the neighbourhood. It grows in hard gravelly soil, where the fibrous 
roots penetrate in all directions ; a circumstance which renders the collecting 
of this plant to any considerable extent, a work of time and labour. _/ Pie 
arachnoidea flowers about the end of March or beginning of April ; and at - 
latter time the ripe seeds may also be procured. ‘ 
“ The elevation of the Casa de las Damas, in the neighbourhood of which 
the Relbun abounds, may be estimated from the height of the barometer, 
which stood at 22,956 inches, heat of mercury 54°. ‘Temperature of atmo- 
sphere 52°. This Relbun appears to be quite distinct from that which 15 
mentioned by Mottin, Chili, vol. 1. p. 115.” 
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Fig. 1. Entire Flower. 2. Corolla, shewing Iyx, with the Pi 
4, Pistil—All more or less augue. ———- emdeoin 
