the Australian Cranberry, as being ‘ of a very delicate 
peach-bloom colour, having something of the consistency 
and taste of the Siberian Crab." We wish, if it ripens its 
fruit in this country, it may be found worthy of even this 
description. 
Branches mouse-colour, taper. Leaves close, an inch 
long, quite smooth, coriaceous, linear, acute at each end, 
beneath whitish, the surface being covered by numerous 
minute stomata, and marked by parallel veins, which only 
traverse the lower stratum of parenchyma. Racemes re- 
curved, 3-flowered. Pedicels short, having at their base 
4 hard, decussating bractex. Calyx 5-leaved, the sepals 
small, ovate, hard, pale, bordered with pink, and over- 
lapping each other. Corolla hypogynous, campanulate, a 
little contracted in the middle, easily separable into 5 petals, 
being, however, truly monopetalous, the tube bearing in 
the middle in the inside a bearded ring. Stamens 5, nearly 
sessile at the recesses of the corolla, traces of their fila- 
ments being visible as far as the bearded ring. Anthers 
1-celled, opening longitudinally, thickest at the apex. 
Ovarium seated in a cyathiform disk. Style slightly hairy. 
J. L. 
x y 
iene 5d. 
