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* PERNETTIA mucronâta. 
Pointed-leaved Pernettia. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
fat. ord. Ericex. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of 
Botany, p. 182.) 
PERNETTIA Gaudichaud. Calyx 5-partitus siccus. Corolla globosa, 
limbo 5-dentato. Stamina 10, hypogyna ; filamentis basi dilatatis, antheris 
muticis: lobis apice angustatis bidentatis. Ovarium 5-loculare, polyspermum ; 
squamis 10 hypogynis ambientibus. Capsula baccata polysperma—Frutices 
(Australi-Americani), folis parvis sempervirentibus, pedunculis axillaribus 
paucifloris. 
P. mucronata ; folis ovatis serratis mucronatis pedunculis laxis brevioribus, 
squamis hypogynis integris. 
P. mucronata ; Gaudichaud in Ann. des sc. vel. 5. p. 102. 
Arbutus mucronata; Lin. fil. suppl. 239. Forst. Comment. Gött. 9. p. 31. 
Graham in Bot. Mag. t. 3093. 
For the opportunity of publishing this interesting plant 
we are indebted to William Harrison, Esq. by whom it was 
communicated from his garden at Cheshunt, in July, 1833. 
lt has there already acquired a size which is quite remark- 
able for so small a plant, considering how young the speci- 
menstillis. Within three years it has formed a bush three 
feet six inches in diameter, and two feet six inches high. It 
is a hardy evergreen shrub, of considerable beauty, on ac- 
count of the neat appearance and dark colour of its foliage ; 
its flowers are pretty, but they are small, and do not make 
much appearance. Mr. Harrison cultivates it in peat, as an 
merican plant. 
It is usually called an Arbutus ; but it agrees with that 
genus neither in appearance nor in structure. In both 
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* Named by M. Gaudichaud “ after Dom Pernetty, the author of the ac- 
count of a voyage to the Falkland Islands, a work remarkable for its interest as 
well as for its candour and exactness.” The original species of the genus was 
mentioned by this traveller under the name of ** Bruyère à feuilles pointues. 
