Hitherto the plant seems only to have been known in Eu- 
fope as an inhabitant of Port Desire*, on the east coast of 
Patagonia, it having been introduced from thence in a packet 
of seeds which Sir JoserH Banks purchased from the captain 
of a merchant ship in 1790. Dr GiutEs discovered it in the 
valleys of the Andes, near Mendoza. 
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* Professor Jacautn (Collect. v. 5. p. 107.) says the plant grows at Champion River 
in Patagonia, and that i¢ and the other Patagonian plants described in that volume “ ab 
illustri Mipps.e7on in loco natali detect fuerunt, earundemque semina ab egregio 
Gutre_mo Forsytna, cum filio meo ineunte anno 1793 communicata.” Mr GawLERr 
remarks, that seeds were sent by Sir JosrpH Banks to Professor Jacaury, and that 
there is no such place in Patagonia as Champion River. 
