catum refers to the colour of the calyx. The drawing 

 made at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. at Fulhaniy 

 where the plant is cultivated in the open ground in bog- 

 .carth. It flowers in May and June. 



A flexuosely branching deciduous shrub, seldom ex- 

 ceeding 2 or 3 feet in height. Leaves oblong, elliptical, 

 sublanceolate, pointed, very finely serrate, about an inch 

 and half long, about the half of one broad or more, slightly 

 villons underneath along the veins. Racemes compound, in 

 oblong flexuose subleafless panicles; partial ones several- 

 flowered, lateral and terminal, alternate, contracted to 

 nearly a corymbose form; peduncle straight, stiff, not much 

 longer than tlie pedicles, generally with a scale or two of 

 the floral bud remaining at the base; pedicles reddish, shin- 

 ing, deflected, nearly of the length of the corolla, furnished 

 above the base with red membranous, lanceolate downy- 

 edged caducous bracies. Flowers white and red, smelling 

 Kke honey. Calyx continuous with the germen, short, 

 oblately campanulate, 5-cleft, lobules pointedly ovate, 

 slightly ciliate, recurved at the tip. Corolla ovately cylin- 

 drical, the diameter three times less than the length or 

 more, plaitedly angular at the upper part, mouth narrow, 

 5-cleft, segments minute, somewhat pointed, slightly vil- 

 lous at the edge. Stamens 10, a third shorter than the 

 corolla, upright: ^/amew#5 cylindrically contiguous, white, 

 flat, linear, fiirred, the length of the anthers: anthers of 

 the colour of rust, without any appendage at the base, 

 headed by two awns longer than the cells- Style green, 

 .round, straight, nearly protruded from the mouth of the 

 corolla; stigma capitate, papulous. 



The principal distinctions between Vaccinium (which 

 varies with 8 and 10 stamens) and Andrombda, are the 

 berry of the first, and the capsule of the latter. 



