Bridgesiane. N. O. Smilacinee. 
TAB. DCLXXIV. 
CALLIXENE POLYPHYLLA. Hook. 
Elata valde ramosa, foliis copiosis oblongis subovatisve mucro- 
nulatis 5-7 nerviis transversimque (sub lente) venosis subtus 
glaucis, pedunculis folium fere equantibus seu eo longioribus 
infra medium articulatis unibracteatis, petalis acutis maculatis, 
antheris incumbentibus. 
Has. S. Chili. Trunks of trees near Valdivia, where it is 
called “ Asajur,” Bridges, n. 679. Cape Tres Montes, C. 
Darwin, Esq. n. 531-8. Isle of Huaffo, Dr. Hights. 
Our larger specimens of this Callixene indicate a truly beau- 
tiful plant ; they are a foot and a half long (and yet only a 
portion of the entire plant) with copious foliage, numerous 
large and probably fragrant flowers, white, it would appear, 
spotted with orange. It is extremely different from the old C. 
marginata of the Falkland Islands and Cape Horn, and equally 
so from that of New Zealand, C. parviflora, of this Work, Tas. 
Dexxxit. Besides the greater size, copious ramifications and 
leaves, these latter are glaucous beneath, and quite destitute of 
the silvery lines so conspicuous in the other species, especially in 
C. marginata; the flowers are larger, the peduncles longer, the 
petals elegantly spotted. In the size and spotting of the flowers, 
this plant exhibits a still nearer affinity with the Luzuriaga 
radicans, R. and P.; a genus scarcely distinct from the pre- 
Sent, except in the anthers being fixed to the apex of the 
short filament by their base, and not versatile, and in the pe- 
duncles being 3-flowered. All the species of the genus have 
distichous leaves, and Dr. Hooker found them growing 
frequently at the roots of the trees in Tierra del Fuego, lying 
flat upon the trunk. The present, from Mr. Bridges’ remark, 
would appear to be an epiphyte. 
Fig. 1. Flower. f.2. Ditto, more expanded. /. 3, 4. Sta- 
mens, f,5, Pistil. f. 6, Section of the ovary :—magnified, 
