430 Hill .— The Germs Caltha in the Southern Hemisphere. 
appearance of separate organs nearly as long as the lamina. According 
to Gay’s figure the ripe carpels are spreading and not erect as in 
C. sagittata , Cav. 
4 . C. sagittata, Cav., Ic., v, p. 456, t. 414 ; DC., Syst., p. 307 ; DC., Prodr., 
i, p. 44; Gaud, in Ann. Sc. Nat., Bot., v, p. 105, et in Freyc., Voy. Bot., 
p. 136 ; D’Urv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, iv, p. 615; Hook. f. in Bot. 
Mag., t. 4056 ; Hook, f., Flor. Antarct., ii, p. 228 ; N. Alboff, Contrib. 
FI. Terre de Feu, ii, p. 9, partim ; Exp. Ant. Belg. c Belgica’, p. 88 ; 
(et? var. /3 vegetior) Wedd., Chi. And., ii, p. 306, et Huth, Abhand. u. 
Vort. gesammt. Naturwiss., iv, p. 13, quoad ref. lies Malouines et 
Ter. Mag. tantum ; Gray in Bot. U.S. Expl. Exp., i, p. 12, excl. syn., 
C. andicola \ Reiche, FI. Chile, i, p. 25 ; non Poeppig, Frag. Syn. PI., 
p. 29 ; non Schlecht in Linnaea, xxvii, p. 557 ; non Torr. in Ann. Lyc. 
Nat. Hist. N. Y., ii, p. 164 (~C. leptosepald). C. sagitatta var. latifolia , 
Huth, Abhand. u. Vort. gesammt. Naturwiss., iv, p. 14, PL I, Fig. 2. 
C. multicapsularis , Soland. MSS. in Bibl. Banks; Forster in Trans. 
Linn. Soc., viii, p. 324. Psychrophila sagittata , Bercht. & Presl, 
Rosth, i, Ranunc., p. 80 ; Gay, FI. Chil., i, p. 47 ; non Psychrophila 
sagittata , Rafin., Atl. Journ., p. 144, nec P . auriculata , Rafin. 1 . c. 
S. Chile. Tierra del Fuego, Banks and Solander in* herb. Mus. Brit.; 
Magellan Straits, Sandy Point, Lechler no; Port Famine, Capt. King 
1027; Gregory Bay, R. O. Cunningham ; Oozy Harbour (Nassau 
Expedition ) ; Hermite Island, J. D. Hooker , 31 ; Orange Harbour, 
Wilkes (U.S. Expl. Expedition) ; Port Famine, Anderson ; Fuegia, 
F. Philippi. 
Falkland Islands. J. D. Hooker ; W. Arnott ; R. O. Cunningham ; 
Mrs. Vallentin 104. 
This species was cultivated at Kew in 1842. The plants were 
brought from the Falkland Islands and provided the material for the 
plate (t. 4056) in the Botanical Magazine. The carpels when young 
were found to be slightly hairy. 
C. sagittata , which is now found to be confined to the Falkland 
Islands and the southern Magellanic Region, has formerly been con¬ 
sidered to extend along the Andes to Ecuador, the northern limit of the 
Psychrophila section of the genus. Weddell includes the specimens 
collected in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador, and Schlechtendal also placed 
Lechler’s Peruvian plant under this species. C. sagittata is distinguished 
not only by its size, being by far the largest of the S. American 
Calthas, but also by the leaves, which have the large auricles folded up 
from the base, and by the flowers, which have some eight to ten yellow 
perianth-segments. 
The other species with similarly upturned auricles are C. andicola , 
