Messrs; Veitch say of this plant that it is one of the most beautiful hard-wooded greenhouse plants of recent introduction. It is a dwarf evergreen shrub, native of Southern Chili, where it is quite rare.

The plant is of bushy habit, and furnished with rather narrow-pointed, bright green leaves, sharply toothed at the upper half.

It is remarkably free-flowering; the flowers either singly or in pairs, are produced from the axil of nearly every leaf towards the ends of all the shoots. They are about the size of a walnut, and pendulous from rather slender footstalks, two to three inches long; the petals are of thick, waxy texture, like those of Lapageria rosea, and of the same brilliant scarlet-crimson color.

A colored engraving of the plant is given in the Garden for November 27th, 1880. In the same journal for May 22d, it is described as " one of the most remarkable new plants we have seen for a long time, and constituted by far the most interesting among the numerous new and rare plants shown at the Royal Botanic Society's Exhibition on May 19th, on which occasion it received the award of a certificate of merit."

Crinodendron Hookerianum.