5 
EPACRIS miniata. 
Vermilion Epacris. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. EPACRIDACEE. 
EPACRIS. Bot. Reg. vol. 18. fol. 1531. 
E. miniata; ramis tomentosis, foliis sessilibus cordatis mucronatis glabris, 
floribus solitariis pedicellatis pendulis, cal. lobis bracteisque aristatis 
margine sublanatis, corollis cylindraceis quadrupló longioribus. 
This remarkable plant was exhibited to the Horticultural 
Society in May last, by Messrs. Loddiges, who had raised it 
from New Holland seeds. It has been reported that it is one 
of the many discoveries made by Mr. Gunn, but we do not see 
either it or the E. grandiflora in any of the extensive collections 
made by that great investigator of the Tasmannian Flora. 
It is very doubtful whether the plant can be regarded 
in any other light than a beautiful variety of Epacris grandi- 
flora. We are unable, indeed, after a diligent comparison, 
to discover any distinction beyond the more bristly nature 
of the sepals and bracts, which are moreover rather more 
woolly at the edge. In E. grandiflora these parts are sharp- 
pointed, but in this they terminate in a slender bristle. This 
is too slender a difference on which to found a specific 
distinction; but the fruit, which we have not seen, may 
be peculiar, and at any rate the point may remain open for 
further investigation. 
Our artist has happily imitated the vermilion tube and 
snow-white limb, whose contrast renders the flowers of this 
shrub so very gay. 
It is a greenhouse plant, and should be potted in heath- 
mould mixed with silver sand, such as heaths are generally 
grown in. When re-potted, the neck of the plant (that portion 
of the stem immediately above the roots) should never be too 
c 
