Hitherto the plant seems only to have been known in Eu- 
rope 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 Joseph Banks purchased from the captain 
of a merchant ship in 1790. Dr Gillies discovered it in the 
valleys of the Andes, near Mendoza. 
• Professor Jacquin {Collect, v. 5. p. IO7.) "says the plant grows at Champion River 
in Patagonia, and that it and the other Patagonian plants described in that volume " ab 
illustri MiDDi.ETON in loco natali detectse fuerunt, earundemque semina ab egregio 
GuLiELMO Forsyth, cum Alio meo ineunte anno 1793 communicata." Mr Gawler 
remarks, that seeds were sent by Sir Joseph Banks to Professor jAcauiN, and that 
there is no such place in Patagonia as Champion River. 
