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PERNETTYA angustifolia. 
Narrow-leaved Pernettya. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ERICACE®, $ ARBUTEA. 
PERNETTIA. Botanical Register, vol. 20. fol. 1675. 
P. angustifolia; erecta ramosa, ramulis minutissime puberulis angulatis, 
foliis lineari-lanceolatis mucronato-acuminatis remoté serratis glabris 1- 
nerviis, pedicellis axillaribus solitariis unifloris folio dimidio brevioribus 
glabriusculis nudis basi imá tantúm bracteolatis. 
Fruticulus sempervirens, rigidus, erectus, ramosus, glaber. Folia quam 
in P. phillyreifolia dupló minora et minis rigida ; Flores adhuc minores; et 
pedicelli e dracteolis quibusdam erumpentes nec per dimidiam longitudinem et 
ultra squamulis imbricati. 
In the gardens this plant is called Pernettya phillyrei- 
folia, a Peruvian species collected by Dombey. But upon 
comparing it with authentic specimens of the latter, for which 
I am indebted to the Administration of the Royal Museum of 
Paris, it proves to be different in several respects. The leaves 
are much smaller in all directions, and not so rigid; the 
flowers too are smaller, and the pedicels are quite destitute of 
scales upon their sides, unless at the very base ; in P. philly- 
reifolia, on the contrary, the pedicels are clothed with small 
scales nearly to the calyx, or at least as far as the middle. 
Fig. 1. represents the calyx spread open so as to show the 
10 hypogynous scales, which stand in pairs opposite the sepals; 
fig. 2. is one of the stamens with the cloven 4-horned anther. 
This species is said to be a native of Valdivia. It was 
sent me by Mr. Cameron, the excellent manager of the Bir- 
mingham Botanic Garden, and has also been communicated 
by Messrs. Lowe and Co. of Clapton. 
It is a very pretty little shrub, hardy, but like all the 
others of the genus very subject to die during the hotter part 
