Plate 154 . 
PEARCE’S OURISIA. 
We are indebted to the kindness of Mr. James Veitch, of the 
Chelsea and Exeter Nurseries, for the opportunity of figuring 
another of the interesting plants which he has been the means 
of introducing from the Chilian Andes, and which, like Mi- 
mulus cupreus , promises to be a useful and pretty addition to 
our gardens, for there is every likelihood of its proving perfectly 
hardy in our climate. 
At the first great show of the Royal Horticultural Society 
held in May last year, an allied species was exhibited, and 
awarded a Silver Knightian Medal; it was thus described in the 
report of their proceedings :— 44 Ourisia coccinea , a dwarf hardy 
perennial of great beauty, introduced from Chili; the leaves 
were radical, stalked, cordate, bicrenate, somewhat like those 
of a Mitella, and the flowers grew on an erect stem about a foot 
in height, this stem terminating in a raceme of opposite, droop¬ 
ing, tubular two-lipped scarlet flowers, an inch and a half 
long, and streaked on the face of the limb with crimson.” But 
this, though so glowingly described, is far inferior to the very 
beautiful one now figured, and in the Society's Proceedings is 
so stated to be in the following terms (vol. iii. 227 ):—Ourisia 
Pearcii , a showy herbaceous perennial with the general features 
of the pretty 0. coccinea , which was now shown with it for 
comparison; it had dark-red stems and leafstalks, the leaves 
were flatter, more regularly ovate and crenate, and the flowers, 
which grow similarly on an erect stem, were larger, with a 
longer tube and more spreading lips, they were crimson, streaked 
on the face of the limb with deep blood-red. The plant was 
obtained from Chili through Mr. Pearce, after whom it has 
been named by Hr. Philippi.” 
