Hill .— The Genus Caltha in Ike Southern Hemisphere. 429 
the plants from which the very beautiful plate in the Chloris Andina 
(C. sagittata ) was prepared. The figures show the shape and line of 
attachment of the wing-like appendages remarkably well. The appen¬ 
dages are attached to the lamina on either side of the midrib, all trace 
of their being derivatives of the infolded basal leaf-lobes having been 
lost. 
Weddell remarks that this species is very abundant in Peru and 
Bolivia, where, with Crantzia lineata var. subulata,, it forms a very 
compact turf and is almost always covered with water. 
C. phylloptera, A. W. Hill, from Tasmania, is the only other species 
with similar wing-like appendages, but they differ from those of C. alata 
in having a small detached lobe at the base. 
3. C. andicola, 1 Walp., Ann. Bot. Syst., i, p. 12 ; Reiche, FL Chil., i, p. 24. 
C. de Ranco , Steud. in Flora, 1856, p. 407. 
C. sagittata , Wedd., Chi. And., ii, p. 306, et 
Huth, Abhand. u. Vort. gesammt. Naturwiss., 
iv, p. 14, PI. i., Fig. 1, quoad spec. Chilens. 
tantum ; C. sagittata , Poeppig, Frag. Syn. PL, 
p. 29. Psychrophila andicola , Gay, FI. Chil., 
i, p. 49 ; Atlas Bot., t. ii. 
Chile. Rivulets E. side of Andes near Volcano 
Peteroa, Bridges 1248; Cord, de Ranco, 
1,680 m ..Pearce 13 ; Lechler 2981 ; Colchagua, 
R. A. Philippi ; Banos de Chilian, Reed ; 
Coquimbo, Cord, de Da. Rosa, Volckmann ; 
Cesso Macha, F. Philippi ; Antuco, 2750 m., 
Poeppig ; S. Chile, Miers in herb. Mus. Brit.; 
Gay in herb. Mus. Paris. 
According to Gay the native name of this plant is Maillico, and 
the inhabitants of Colchagua use the root for stomachic affections. Its 
value in this respect is also mentioned by Reed (Hist. Nat. Chil., 
p. 97), who states that it is much appreciated for certain infirmities of 
the stomach. 
The plant is beautifully figured by Gay in his Atlas. According 
to his description and figure the white flowers have 6 petals—Reiche 
says 5-6—but some of the specimens at Kew have as many as eight 
elliptic-ovate acute segments. The leaf lobes, infolded from the base, 
are crenately lobed, sometimes dentate-crenate, and the line of attach¬ 
ment of the appendages is quite narrow, so that they have almost the 
1 The combination C. andicola is attributed to Gay in the Index Kewensis, and also by other 
authors, but in FL Chil. ( 1 . c.) he places this and all the other S. American Calthas under the genus 
Psychrophila. The proper authority for the combination Caltha andicola is Walpers, as given 
above. 
