two years old from seed ; but it appears from Mr. Douglas's 

 wild specimens that it becomes a bush, at least two feet 

 high, with more upright and stronger shoots, bearing a vast 

 quantity of pink flowers, which, as in many other Vacci- 

 niums, are hidden from view by the leaves, in consequence 

 of the latter assuming a sort of distichous direction present- 

 ing their surfaces horizontally to the light, notwithstanding 

 the horizontal direction of the branches; a circumstance 

 which is in strict accordance with the laws of vegetable 

 physiology, but which completely destroys any beauty that 

 the plants would derive from their flowers. 



To be propagated by layers like the rest of the genus. 

 It requires to be cultivated in shady places, or among 

 bushes; but, while it is much injured by exposure to the 

 uninterrupted rays of the sun, it suffers equally from a 

 total absence of direct solar light; so that it will not thrive 

 under a north wall. 



A shrub, covered densely with foliage, evergreen, a 

 foot or a foot and a half high ; the branchlets hairy, spread- 

 ing, or recurved. Leaves coriaceous, shining, ovate, acute, 

 serrated, somewhat distichous, on short stalks, quite smooth 

 on each side; the petioles pubescent. Racemes shorter 

 than the leaves, deflexed, hidden beneath the foliage, nearly 

 smooth ; the bracteae short, ovate, cucullate. Ovarium 

 roundish, smooth; teeth of the calyx short, acute, red. 

 Corolla nearly globose, flesh-coloured, 5-toothed; the teeth 

 short, acute, crimson in the middle. Berries the size of 



a pea. 



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