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ANDROMEDA phyllirezfolia. 
Phyllirea-leaved Andromeda. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ERICACER. 
ANDROMEDA. Botanical Register, vol. 10. fol. 807. 
A phyllire@folia ; foliis sempervirentibus oblongis convexis juxta apicem ser-, 
ratis, racemis pilosis axillaribus nutantibus foliorum longitudine v. lon- 
gioribus, sepalis ovatis corollà ovatà duplà brevioribus, filamentis apice 
sigmoideis, antheris dorso bisetis. 
A. phylliresefolia, Hook. ic. plant. vol. 2. t. 122. 
Pieris ? phylliresefolia, DeCand. prodr. 7. 599. " 
A very neat greenhouse shrub, introduced lately by 
- Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it flowered for the first time in 
January last. It was originally discovered in West Florida, 
at a place called Apalachicola, by the late Mr. Drummond, 
from whom we have a specimen. 
We place the plant, with Sir W. Hooker, in Andromeda, 
for these reasons. In the first place there seems no sufficient 
ground for separating from Andromeda the genera proposed 
by the Dons, which, to our apprehension, are neither limited 
by solid characters, nor so contrived as to form useful divi- 
sions. Secondly, the plant before us will not suit any of them 
exactly ; so that M. DeCandolle, who admitted the proposed 
divisions, although he thrust it into Pieris, a name in which 
he admits there is no common sense, does so with doubt, and 
questions whether it may not form a new genus of itself. 
For ourselves we cannot separate it from Andromeda poli- 
folia. 
One of the most striking characters in this very distinct 
species is the peculiar darkness of its leaves, which thus are 
able to set off the snow-white flowers to great advantage. 
They look like pearls on a negro's neck. 
