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EPACRIS dubia. 
Doubtful Epacris. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ErAcCRIDACE=. (Eracrıns, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 448.) 
EPACRIS. Bot. Reg. vol. 18. fol. 1531. 
E. dubia; ramulis pubescentibus, foliis subpetiolulatis lineari-lanceolatis 
acuminatis callo obtuso apiculatis subtus trinerviis margine obsoletě 
denticulatis, floribus axillaribus subsessilibus in spicam brevem foliosam 
dispositis, calycibus acutis vix ciliatis corolle tubo sequalibus, corolle 
laciniis acutis, staminibus subinclusis. 
When this plant was first sent us by Mr. Jackson, nursery- 
man, Kingston, we mistook it for Æ. heteronema ; but the 
leaves are far narrower, are not merely slightly three-ribbed 
at the base, but plainly so through their whole length, and 
above all they are terminated by a blunt callus, and not by a 
slender spine. 
Nor is it E. paludosa, for its leaves are not acerose, nor 
are the lobes of the corolla large and rounded. 
Nor is it Æ. obtusifolia, for it is not slender enough, nor 
are the leaves abruptly blunt, nor is the calyx ciliated. 
Since, then, it is neither of these three species, and since 
no others have been described with which it is comparable, 
we are forced to regard it as new. But is it a wild species? 
or is it one of those endless garden hybrids, which are be- 
coming now so common as to threaten that garden Botany 
shall have to be studied upon principles unnecessary and un- 
known in wild plants? That is a point which we are unable 
to answer. 
In this embarrassment we give it “ a local habitation and 
a name," and nothing more. 
Fig. 1. represents the corolla cut open, exposing the sta- 
mens and pistil, with the five hypogynous scales. 
