occupying the whole width. The back of the segments of 
the perianth is of a paler colour, and the spots and clouds 
less distinctly marked. Stamens three, yellow. Filaments 
monadelphous. <Anthers oblong, versatile. Germen infe- 
rior, broadly ovate, somewhat angled, glandular. Style 
shorter than the filaments of the stamens: Stigmas three, 
subulate, spreading. 
A native of Chili, where, in the neighbourhood of Valpa- 
raiso, it was found by Arexanper Crucksuanks, Esq. and by 
him introduced to the Glasgow Botanic Garden. It pro- 
duced its bright and lively coloured flowers in May, 1832, 
being treated as other plants of the same Genus, in the green- 
house. Its nearest affinity is with S. graminifolium (Bot. 
Reg. t. 1067) ; but it is, with us at least, a smaller and less 
vigorous plant, the leaves are scarcely at all scabrous, the 
flowers larger, of a deeper yellow, and marked with dark 
blood-coloured spots, the spathas smaller, sharper, and more 
membranaceous at the margins. 
Fig. 1. Flower, from which the Perianth is removed : magnified. 
