Tab. 6949. 

 ESCALLONIA revoluta. 



Native of Chili. 



Nat. Ord. Saxifbagacej2.— Tribe Escalloxieje. 

 Genus Escallonia, Linn.jil.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PI. vol. i. p. G44.) 



Escallonia revoluta; ramis erectis pubescenti-tomentosis v. subvillosis, foliis 

 breviter petiolatis obovatis acutis v. cuspidatis supra medium argute in- 

 sequaliter dentatis coriaceis marginibus recurvis utrinque pubemlis v. 

 pubescentibus, racemis laxifloris simplicibus thyraoideuTe, floribus breTJter 

 pedicellatis, calycis tubo subgloboso, limbi lobis tubo aequilongis sulmlato- 

 lanceolatis, corollse albas petalis in tubum i-pollicarein cylindraceum dispositis, 

 ungue elongata lineari, limbo brevi breviter oblongo. 



E. revoluta. Persoon EncJi. vol. i. p. 235 ; DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 5 ; Hook, and Am. 

 Hot. Misc. vol. iii. p. 341 ; Jiemy in Gay. FL Chil. vol. iii. p. 55 ; A. Gran, 

 Bot. U.S. Expl. Exped. p. 564 ; Engler in Linncea, vol. xxxvi. p. 5 16. 



E. affiuis, Riiprecht in Serb. Acad. Petrop. 



Stereoxylon revolutum, Suiz and Pav. FL Per. 8f Chil. vol. iii. p. 15, t. 236. 



A common Chilian shrub, occurring in ravines and by 

 watercourses at the level of the sea at Valdivia, and 

 gradually ascending the Andes in proceeding northwards, 

 where it attains the latitude of Concepcion, and perhaps a 

 higher one. The character of revolute leaves is usually 

 rarely apparent, though some of the dried specimens show 

 it very strongly. The whole plant, and especially the 

 branchlets, vary greatly in amount of pubescence, the latter 

 being sometimes even villous. In the cultivated specimens 

 when fresh the pubescence is hardly apparent to the naked 

 eye, and the lithographer (not the artist) has made the 

 foliage appear too hispid in the plate. 



Escallonia revoluta was communicated by Mr. Lynch 

 from the Cambridge Botanical Gardens, where it forms a 

 robust shrub, flowering in September. 



Desce. A shrub ten to twenty feet high, copiously 

 branched ; branches woody ; branchlets pubescent tomen- 

 tose or even villous, as thick as a crow-quill. Leaves three- 

 quarters to one and a half inch long, rather coriaceous, 

 obovate, acute or cuspidate, acutely irregularly toothed 



AUGUST 1st, 1887. 



