Plate 112. 
TRAILING SARMIENTA. 
Sarmienta repens. 
Among the many plants which have been introduced to the 
notice of the public this season by the enterprising firm of 
Veitch and Son, of Exeter, and King’s Road, Chelsea, have been 
several from Chili; and as they have been obtained from a 
considerable elevation in the Chilian Andes, they are likely to 
be many of them, as Mimulus cwpreus , hardy, while others, 
such as the curious and interesting plant we now figure, will be 
well suited for greenhouse culture. 
The practice, now so generally adopted, of growing plants in 
hanging baskets, has led to increased attention being paid 
to such as have a dwarf and trailing habit, and for such pur¬ 
poses we believe that Sarmienta repens will be considered 
a very desirable addition ; it was exhibited by Messrs. Veitch 
at the first great show of the Royal Horticultural Society at 
Kensington, when it received a silver Knightian medal from 
the Sub-Committee of the Floral Committee, as very useful for 
the purpose. There is a goodly number of plants of this class, 
suitable for the stove, but those for the greenhouse are rare, 
and this seems just the very thing we want; the stems, which 
are very freely produced, branch out in all directions, and strike 
root as they grow, so that a basket filled with material suitable 
for them, viz. light peaty soil, will be soon filled with the 
smooth and fleshy leaves, and the shoots then will hang over 
the sides. The flowers, as will be seen by reference to the 
drawing, are very abundant, the colour a light crimson-scarlet, 
and singular in shape, being tubular, swollen in the centre, 
and, as has been observed, not a little resembling those of 
Mitraria coccinea , although the habit of the plant is very un¬ 
like it; its cultivation will, from all appearance, be easy 
