VALDIVIA (so called from the town of Valdivia, in Chili, in the neighbourhood of which the genus is found). ORD Saxifrageae. A monotypic genus. The species is a singular and ornamental, small, half-hardy, evergreen shrub, with short, terete stems, probably now lost to cultivation. VALDIVIA Gayana (Gay's). fl. red, pedicellate, few in a short, axillary, hairy raceme; calyx five-lobed, the tube adnate with the ovary; petals five to seven, perigynous, linear, acuminate, bearded within at the base; stamens five to seven. l. ample, alternate and sub-opposite, obovate-lanceolate, acute, argutely glandular-erose or toothed, membranous; stipules wanting. h. 6in. Chili to Valdivia, 1863.