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de la perdiz, or Partridge flower" of the natives. It is the earliest 

 flower of the rainy season. When the Stork's Bill and young grass 

 are making the hill-sides green, this little bulbous-rooted sorrel 

 springs up as plentiful as our field daisy, and by the month of May, 

 which corresponds to our November, the surface is, as it were, 

 gilded with its delicate yellow blossoms. 



Tropaeolum tricolor, T. brachyceras, and T. azureum. — These are 

 exquisitely beautiful climbers, covering the bushes in September 

 and October. They are all now cultivated in our conservatories. I 

 was surprised to see another Chilian species, T. speciosum, gro wing- 

 freely on the front of a cottage near Selkirk in the autumn of 1877. 

 T. tricolor is described by Darwin in his work on Climbing Plants. 



Aristotelia, "Maqui." — This is an arborescent bush about the size 

 of our hazel. I mention it to show how easilv Chilian shrubs mi»ht 

 be acclimatised here. I raised a plant of it from seed at Innellan 

 in 1873, and it has grown there in the open air ever since. " Maqui" 

 berries are reckoned a powerful remedy in dysentery. 



Lardizabala biter nata, "Coguille." — This is an evergreen climber, 

 as beautiful as ivy, and bears graceful racemes of dusky purple- 

 chocolate flowers. It comes nearer my idea of tropical woody 

 climbers than anything I have seen. A young plant of it is now 

 growing in the Glasgow Botanic Gardens. 



Dry mis chilensis, or D. winteri (Winter's Bark), tree "Canelo." — 

 This handsome evergreen tree extends from the Straits of Magellan 

 to lat. 31° S. It is the sacred tree of the Araucanian Indians, and 

 its bark was long a well-known medicine in our own country. It 

 was introduced by Dr. Winter, a physician in Drake's expedition 

 in 1577 — hence its name, Winter's Bark. It is well worth the 

 attention of shrub fanciers, and would grow easily in mild situations. 

 The general aspect is that of the rhododendron, but looser. The 

 flowers are, however, quite different. 



Ledocarpum peduncular e, *'Amancay." — This handsome yellow- 

 flowered woody plant grows in the northern desert. It is easily 

 raised from seed. I had a plant of it eight inches high, but it died 

 in the air of Glasgow. 



Cruickshanksia (natural order, Rubiaceae). — This genus is peculiar 

 to Chile, and, so far as I know, none of the species are yet culti- 

 vated in Britain. They grow in the north, and form beautiful 

 patches on the sand. 



Myrtus ugni, " Mol." — A tine plant of this is in the Glasgow 



