point, which, as well as its base, and the whole remainder 

 of the corolla, is of an uniform pale rose lilac, rather darker 

 and somewhat streaked on the outside, the centre orange- 

 coloured, with a few dark purple streaks ; lateral lobes 

 bipartite, each segment bifid ; lower-lip tripartite, lateral 

 segments linear, very narrow, spreading, and half the length 

 of the central one, which is notched, and each segment is 

 drawn out into a long beak ; tube slightly curved, laterally 

 compressed, and longer than the limb. Stamens four; fila- 

 ments pubescent at the base, the two upper ones very short, 

 abortive, and projecting forwards from the edge of the 

 central lobe of the upper lip, at its base, the two others 

 rising from the base of the lower lip, nearly reaching to the 

 fissure in its central lobe, and as in the other species, re- 

 tained within this till the pollen is ripe, after which they 

 advance, and pass forward in straight, parallel lines from 

 the centre of the flower : anthers large, green, broadly 

 elliptical, notched at their base, bilobular, bursting along 

 their inner surface ; pollen greenish-yellow. Stigma very 

 minute, terminal. Style rather longer than the stamens, 

 ascending at its extremity, lilac. Germen small, conical, 

 yellow, bilobular. Ovules numerous, attached to a central 

 receptacle in each loculament, capsule ovate, longer than 

 the calyx, two-valved, valves bifid. Seeds brown, dotted, 

 somewhat scaly, reniform, or so much bent round that their 

 extremities meet. 



This remarkably distinct species of Schizanthus was 

 raised by James Boog, Esq. in his garden at Portobello, 

 from seed brought to this country by my excellent friend, 

 Dr. Gillies, having been gathered by him in various places 

 on the Chilian side of the Cordillera of the Andes, at an 

 elevation of eight or nine thousand feet above the level of 

 the sea. The seed was sown in the spring of 1829, in the 

 open border, and the plants not having flowered, they were 

 taken into the house during winter, and replanted abroad 

 in March. The flowers began to appear in June, and were 

 abundantly produced during the whole summer. Thus 

 treated, Schizanthus Hookeri has proved itself of biennial 

 duration, at least; whether it may be longer lived, or 

 whether, if raised in a greater degree of heat, the plant 

 might not have blossomed in the first year and afterwards 

 died, I am unable to say. Dr. Gillies obligingly informed 

 me when the flowers first appeared, expressing his convic- 

 tion, that the species was hitherto undescribed ; he also 

 narrated its most characteristic features, and enclosed a 

 specimen. Graham. 



Fig. 1. Flower, magnified. 2. Fruit, nat. size. 



