432 Hill. — The Genus Calt ha in the Southern Hemisphere. 
Hermite Island agree exactly with the plant figured by Delessert, with 
lobed laminae and long perianth-segments tapering to acuminate tips. 
Some of the specimens from the Falklands and Orange Harbour, how¬ 
ever, have simple leaves like those described for C. limb at a , and the 
floral difference would appear to be the only essential character for 
distinguishing these two described species. 
6. C. limbata, Schlecht. in Linnaea, xxvii, p. 536 ; Reiche, FI. Chil., i, 
p. 25. C. appendiculata (3 chilensis^ Huth, Abhand. u. Vort. gesammt. 
Naturwiss., iv, p. 15, PI. i, Fig. 4. C. holophylla , Leybold, Anal. 
Univ. Santiago, 1859, p. 678 (?). 
S. Chile. Lechler 3041 (? 3040); Maule, Chilian, fide Reiche , 1 . c.; with¬ 
out precise locality, R . Pearce in herb. Mus. Brit. 
It is doubtful whether this is little more than a variety of C. appen¬ 
diculata , Pers. At Kew and at the British Museum there are three 
Lechler specimens both bearing the number 3040. Two of them have 
large simple leaves 4-6 cm. long, and simple appendages with remains 
of mature fruits, but no flowers, and the locality is given 4 Cord, de 
Ranco ad Seaturez Sichahue, Dec. 54 \ The other is a small plant, the 
leaves being about 2 cm. long, and the appendages are bifid. This is 
also a flowering specimen and the perianth-segments are ligulate or 
slightly obovate-spathulate and not much longer than the stamens. 
They are also terminated in a white membranous rounded tip as 
Schlechtendal describes. In C. appendiculata , Pers., the perianth-seg¬ 
ments are twice as long as the anthers and are linear-lanceolate, 
becoming acuminate at the apex. 
As the Kew specimens agree so closely with the description in 
Linnaea, xxvii, it seems probable that the Lechler no. 3041 quoted is 
a mistake for 3040. 
7 . C. dioneaefolia, Hook. f. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii, p. 306 ; FI. Antarct., 
ii, p. 229, t. Ixxxiv; Walp., Ann. Bot. Syst., i, p. 11; N. Alboff, 
Contrib. FI. Terre de Feu, ii, p. 9; Huth, Abhand. u. Vort. gesammt. 
Naturwiss., iv, p. 15 ; Exp, Ant. Belg. ‘ Belgica ’, pp. 15, 87, PI. xx, 
Figs. 13-18; Reiche, FI. Chil., i, p. 25; Goebel, Pflanzenbiol. Schild,, 
ii, p. 27, Fig. 6. Psychrophila dioneaefolia , Gay, FI. Chil., i, p. 51 ; 
A. Gray in Bot., U.S. Expl. Exp., i, p. 14. 
S. Chile. Fuegia, Forster and C. Darwin ; Hermite Island, J. D. 
Hooker , 15 ; Cape Horn, Arnott ; Davis ; Orange Harbour, Wilkes 
{U.S. Expl. Expedition ); Fuegia, Forster ; Playa Paeda Cone, Cunning¬ 
ham ; Magellan Straits, Me Whinne ; Smith Canal, F. Philippi. 
This species and C. appendiculata constitute a material portion of 
the bog-earth of Hermite Island and sometimes cover the ground in 
broad hard green tufts. The stomatal arrangement has already been 
