minated by a long, rigid bristle. Flowers axillary, solitary, 

 white, nodding. Peduncles pale green, nearly as long as 

 the leaves, sprinkled with reddish pubescence, and having 

 several scattered, appressed, ovate bracteas on their lower 

 half. Calyx naked, white, five-parted ; segments acute. 

 Corolla white, campanulate, rather smaller than that of 

 Convallaria majalis, somewhat transparent between the 

 calyx-segments, five-toothed, segments reflected. Stamens 

 ten ; filaments cordato-ovate, white, and under a moderately 

 powerful lens appearing rough ; Anthers attached by their 

 backs to the apex of the filament, erect, brown, attenuated 

 at their points, where they open by two pores, bristles 

 very short, erect. Pistil included. Stigma of five, erect 

 points. Style nearly half as long as the whole pistil, erect, 

 cylindrical, pale yellowish-green ; Germen equalling the 

 stamens in length, round, smooth, green. 



We raised a single plant of this species from seed given 

 us by Mr. Mackay in 1828, which flowered in the Edin- 

 burgh Bot. Garden, May 1830, for the first time. It is 

 stated by Forster, to be a native of the Streights of Ma- 

 gellan. Mr. Mackay's seeds were received from Mr. An- 

 derson, an indefatigable and highly successful cultivator, 

 who has been sent to explore the southern parts of the 

 continent of America, by the establishment at Clapton : 

 but I do not know the exact station where he met with the 

 plant. Graham. 



Tig. 1. Leaf: nat. size. 2. Flower. 3, 4. Stamens. 5. Apex of a Cell 

 of the Anther. 6. Pistil.— M agnified. 



