56 THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGES. 



MONOCOTYLEDONES. 



BROMELIAGE^E. 



Ochagavia elegans, PhiKppi. 



Ochagavia elegans, Philippi in Bot. Zeit., 1856, p. 647. « 



Juan Fernandez. — Endemic. Germain. 



Front the description this must be a very pretty and distinct little plant, with rosy 

 flowers and silvery leaves about four inches long. We have seen no specimen of it ; but in 

 Kew Herbarium there are leaves of a Bromeliaceous plant, probably a TiUandsia collected 

 by Bertero in shady woods in the very highest part of the mountains. They are narrow, 

 and about eighteen inches long. Bertero himself (Ann. Sc. Nat., xxi. p. 348) states that 

 a TiUandsia, or a species of some closely allied genus, Avas met with on the highest 

 mountains, and a Bromelia, near Bromelia discolor, was very common on dry elevated 

 rocks in the mountains. The former was probably the Ochagavia elegans of Philippi. 



IEIDEiE. 

 Libertia formosa, Graham. 



Libertia formosa, Graham in Edinb. New Pliilos. Journ., Oct. 1833, p. 383; Bot. Beg., t. 1630 ; Bot. 



Mag., t. 3294 ; Gay, Fl. ChiL, vi. p. 30. 

 Libertia crassa, < rraham, 1. c. 1 

 Libertia grandiflora, Philippi in Bot. Zeit., 1856, p. 648, non Sweet. 



Juan Fernandez. Mrs Graham; Bertero; Cuming; Reed; Moseley. Masa- 

 puera. Germain; Downton. 



Valdivia and Chiloe, and southward. 



Apparently one of the commoner plants of the islands. Philippi regards the insular 

 plant as specifically different from the Chilian, but some of the specimens from the main- 

 land are as big and robust as those from Juan Fernandez. Should it prove to be really 

 different, Graham's name crassa may perhaps stand for it, but we have seen no authentically 

 named specimen of that. Philippi's name is occupied by a New Zealand plant. Mr 

 Downton, who collected in Juan Fernandez, introduced the plant into England for Messrs 

 Veitch, with whom it flowered in 1876. The cultivated plant was about three feet high, 

 with leaves nearly as long as the flower-stem, and the expanded flower was an inch and a 

 quarter across. 



PAL1VLE. 

 Juania australis, Drinle. 



Juania australis, l)rudo ex Hook. f. in Append. Kcp. Progr. and Cond., K03-. Gard., Kew, 1884, p. 57. 

 Ceroxylont australe, Mart., Hist. Nat. Palm., iii. p. 315. 

 .1/ renia chonta, Philippi in Bot. Zeit., 1856, pp. 64S et 818. 



.1 1 an I'i rnandez. — Endemic. Dense woods on the mountains — Bertero ; Germain. 



