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EPACRIS* nivalis. 



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Snowy Epacris 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA 



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Nat. ord. Epacrideje R. Br. (Introduction to the natural system of 



Botany ', p . 183 .) ■ .. 



EPACRIS Forst.— Calyx coloratus, multibracteatus, bracteis textura 



calvcis. Corolla tubulosa, limbo iraberbi. Stamina epipetala; anthens 

 supra medium peltatis. Squamule 5, hypogynrc. Capsula placentis co- 

 lumnar centrali adnatis. Fruticuli ramosi, sepius glabri. Folia sparsa, 



petiolata v. basi simplici. Flores axillares, in spicam foliatam septus 

 digesti, albi v. purpurascentes. — R. Br. prodr. 550. 



E. nivalis ; floribus pendulis racemosis, foliis lanceolatis sessdibus attenuato- 

 acuminatis subtus striatis, pedunculis calycebis brevionbus, corolhs cam- 

 panulatis basi constrictis : tubo calycem bis superante. 



E. nivalis. Loddiges' botanical cabinet, t. 1821. .; 



Frutex sempervirens, ramosus, 2-3-pedalis, floribus mveis pendulis onustus. 



Ramuli arachnoideo-pubescentes, fusco-purpurei. Folia ovato-lanceolata, v. 



lanceolata, reflexo-patentia, acuminatissima, glabra, subttLs striata, bepala 



et bractese ovate, acute, albe, margine lanulose. Corolla foltorum longt- 



tudine, campanulata, intra calycem constricta. 



Introduced from New Holland by Henry Moreton Dyer, 

 Esq., vice-president of the Horticultural Society, who gave 

 seeds of it, in 1829, to Messrs. Loddiges, in whose Botanical 

 Cabinet an excellent figure appeared in July last. 



It forms an evergreen bush, which, when loaded like 

 an Andromeda with hundreds of snow-white flowers is 

 exceedingly ornamental. Any greenhouse will afford it 

 protection enough in winter ; and in summer it will bear 

 the open air of this climate. It increases by cuttings. 



• From M, upon, and **$««, the summit of a mountain ; alluding to the 

 native situation of several of the species. 



