838 
Cham. et Schlecht, in Linnea, 1. p. 520. Leaves shining above, 
ciliated with long stiff hairs on the nerves beneath, and margins 
while young. Larger leaves 8 lines long. Racemes approxi- 
mate at the tops of the branches. Calyx hairy. Style ex- 
serted. Corolla urceolate, with short, obtuse, reflexed teeth, 
scarlet. ? 
Money-mort-leaved Agarista. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 
11 A. NERIIFÒLIA ; quite glabrous; leaves petiolate, oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, ovate at the base, coriaceous; panicle termi- 
nal, composed of numerous racemes ; ovarium glabrous. p. S. 
Native of Brazil, within the tropic. Andrómeda neriifòlia, 
Cham. et Schlecht, in Linnea, 1. p. 522. Leaves 3 inches 
long, shining above and paler beneath. Racemes secund; flowers 
drooping. Corolla urceolate, with short, obtuse, hardly spread- 
ing teeth, scarlet.? Calycine segments finely ciliated. 
Nerium-leaved Agarista. Shrub 2 feet. 
12 A. oLtIFÒòLIA ; leaves on short petioles, oblong, subacumi- 
nated, mucronate, acutish at the base, or rounded, with reflexed 
margins, flat, glabrous, coriaceous ; racemes axillary, length of 
leaves ; calycine segments ovate, acuminated, acute; corollas 
oblong ; ovarium glabrous. h. S. Native of equinoxial 
Brazil. Andrómeda oleifòlia, Cham. in Linnea, 8. p. 504.— 
Flowers scarlet, with white filaments and yellow anthers. There 
are varieties of it having the inflorescence either hairy or gla- 
brous. 
Olive-leaved Agarista. Shrub 6 to 10 feet. 
13 A. SERRULA`TA; leaves subimbricated, almost sessile, 
spreading, stiff, ovate, cordate, acute, reticulately veined, with 
reflexed margins, and serrulately-ciliated near the margin above, 
very scabrous, hairy on the nerve beneath as well as the branch- 
lets, inflorescence, and calyxes; racemes terminal, and from the 
axils of the upper leaves, and much exceeding them; calycine 
segments ovate, acuminated, acute or lanceolate, one-half the 
length of the corolla; ovarium downy. h. S. Native of 
Brazil, within the tropic. Andrómeda serrulata, Cham. et 
Schlecht. in Linnea, 8. p. 506. Corollas scarlet, with obtuse 
spreading teeth. 
Serrulated-leaved Agarista. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 
14 A. visrrix; branchlets bluntly angular; leaves on short 
petioles, ovate-cordate, acute in the young state, and obtuse in 
the adult state, always mucronate, coriaceous, marginated, 
clothed with fine white tomentum beneath, as well as the branch- 
lets, inflorescence, and calyxes ; racemes terminal and axillary, 
exceeding the leaves; calycine segments broad, ovate, acumi- 
nated, acute, spreading ; corollas downy; ovarium clothed with 
white tomentum. h.S. Native of Brazil. Andrómeda Pis- 
trix, Cham. in Linnea, 8. p. 508. Leaves 15 lines long. Co- 
rollas ovoid, coriaceous, scarlet, much larger than those of 4. 
púlchra. Style woolly at the base. 
Whale Agarista. Shrub. 
15 A. CHLORANTHA ; leaves on short petioles, ovate- cordate, 
obtuse, mucronate, coriaceous, glabrous, with revolute margins ; 
branches, inflorescence, and calyxes downy; racemes terminal 
and axillary, a little longer than the leaves; calycine segments 
narrow-ovate, acuminated, or lanceolate, acute, longer than the 
third part of the corolla, which is ovoid-cylindrical ; ovarium 
downy or villous. h. S. Native of Brazil. Andrómeda 
chlorantha, Cham. in Linnea, 8. p. 508. A box-like shrub, 
with the habit of 4. Bracamorénsis and A. revolita. Corollas 
white, green at the apex, glabrous. 
Green-flowered Agarista. Shrub 6 to 10 feet. ? 
16 A. PULCHELLA; leaves on short petioles, cordate, ovate- 
oblong, mucronate, marginated, rather coriaceous, flat, pubescent 
on the midrib beneath while young, as well as the petioles, 
branchlets, and inflorescence; racemes terminal and axillary, 
8-8-flowered, a little longer than the leaves; flowers on long 
ERICACEA. XXXVII. AGARISTA. 
XXXVIII. Dievecosra. 
pedicels; calycine segments broad-ovate, acuminated, acute. 
h. S. Native of Brazil. Andrómeda pulchélla, Cham. in 
Linnea, 8. p. 509. Like Æ. nerüfòðlia and A. púlchra, but 
differs much in the inflorescence. Leaves 4 inch long. Young 
branches angular. Racemes crowded at the tops of the 
branches. 
Neat Agarista. Shrub. 
17 A. PYRIFÒLIA ; leaves ovate, acuminated, quite entire, and 
are, as well as the panicle, glabrous. h.S. Native of the 
Mauritius. Andrómeda pyrifdlia, Pers. ench. 1. p. 481.— 
Tree 20 feet high, with sulcately striated bark. Flowers ob- 
scure, purple. 
Pear-leaved Agarista. Tree 20 feet. 
18 A. i11crrd6L1a ; leaves cordate, broad, coriaceous, slightly 
toothed ; racemes axillary and terminal, crowded at the tops of 
the branches. h.S. Native of Peru. Andrómeda ilicifdlia, 
Pers. ench. 1. p. 481. Leaves on short petioles, ovate and 
quite entire when young, but when larger and older furnished 
with a few distant teeth at the base. 
Holly-leaved Agarista. Shrub. 
19 A. ERIOPHY'LLA; leaves roundish-ovate, tomentose on 
both surfaces, and terminated by a gland, quite entire; racemes 
terminal, secund, bracteate ; corollas ovate. h.G. Native of 
Brazil, on the mountains. Andrómeda eriophylla, Vand. fi. 
lus et bras. spec. Pers. ench. 1. p. 482. 
Woolly-leaved Agarista. Shrub. 
20 A.? anastomdsans; leaves ovate, subserrated, dotted 
beneath, with anastomosing veins ; racemes axillary, glomerate. 
h. S. Native of New Granada. Andrómeda glomerata, Cav. 
icon. 6. p. 42. Stem villous. Leaves rather veiny. Corollas 
glabrous. Bracteas longer than the pedicels. 
Anastomosing Agarista. Shrub. 
Cult. Agarista is a genus of most showy and elegant shrubs, 
well worth the cultivator’s care. Peat and sand is the best soil 
for them: and cuttings not too young will strike root in sand 
under a hand-glass, in a moderate heat. Although the species 
are said to require the stove, they would probably be better if 
treated as greenhouse plants. 
XXXVIII. DIPLECO'SIA (from dirdove, diplous, double, 
and kwe, kos, a covering; in reference to the double covering; 
the calyx and calyculus.) Blum. bijdr. 857. i 
Lin. syst. Decándria, Monogýnia. Calyx 5-cleft, girded 
by a calyculus at the base, which is composed of 2 com- 
bined bracteas. Corolla campanulate, with a 5-cleft reflexed 
limb. Stamens 10, inclosed, inserted in the calycine disk 3 an- 
thers bifid at the apex, the lobes undivided. Style erect; stigma 
truncate. Capsule subglobose, depressed, inclosed in the calyx, 
which is baccate, 5-celled, and dehiscing irregularly. Seeds nu- 
merous, cuneated, compressed, fixed to fleshy prominent recep- 
tacles.—Parasitical shrubs. Leaves scattered, coriaceous. Flow- 
ers solitary or in fascicles, axillary. Corollas pale-greenish. 
This genus is intermediate between Andrémeda and Gaulthéria. 
It differs from the latter in the structure of the corolla and an- 
thers; and from the first in the baccate calyx and dehiscence 
of the fruit. 
1 D. ròsa (Blum. bijdr. 858.) leaves ovate-lanceolate, acu- 
minated, strigose above and pilose beneath, as well as the 
branchlets ; pedicels solitary or twin. .S. Native of Java, 
on Mount Salak, in woods, where it is called by the natives 
Kila Ge Daijbula. 
Pilose Diplecosia. Shrub. 
2 D. ratròLia (Blum. l. c.) leaves oval, acutish at both 
ends, with recurved margins, glabrous; pedicels fascicled. Rh- 
S. Native of Java, upon trees on the mountains. 
Broad-leaved Diplecosia. Fl. Year. Shrub par. 
