Tas. 4274, 
ESCALLONIA Orcanensis. 
Organ Mountains Escallonia. 
Nat. Ord. EscaLLONIaAce®.—PENTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus semiglobosus ovario adnatus, limbus 5-dentatus 
5-lobusve. Petala 5 calyci inserta. Stamina 5; anthere ovato-oblonge. Stylus 
filiformis persistens. Stigma peltatum, sulco subbilobum. Capsula baccata, 
calycinis lobis styloque coronata, subbilocularis, basi poris irregulariter rampens 
dissepimento superne incompleto et ibi placentifero. Semina numerosissima 
scrobiculata.—Arbores fruticesve ex Amer. austr. orte sepe resinose. Folia sparsa 
eee aut integra. Flores subterminales varie dispositi, bracteati, albi v. rosei. 
Cand. 
EscaLLonta Organensis ; glabra, ramis erectis, foliis oblongis obtusis basi cuneatis 
breviter petiolatis supra medium serrulatis leviter resinoso-punctatis, pani- 
culis terminalibus multifloris, calycis lobis subulatis, petalis spathulatis. 
Escautonta Organensis. Gardn. Herb. Brazil. n.5720. Hook. Ic. Pl. 6. t. 514. 
Var. 8. foliis angustioribus, (TaB. NosTR. 4274.) 
A lovely shrub, which will probably prove hardy, first detected 
in the Organ Mountains by Mr. Gardner, and about the same 
time by Mr. Wm. Lobb, whose seeds, sent to Mr. Veitch of Mount 
Radford Nursery, Exeter, produced the plant from which this 
representation is taken. ‘The stem and branches are of a 
rich red brown, extending to the calyx: the leaves have their 
mid-rib, in part, and the serrated margins red, and the petals are 
deep rose-colour. Mr. Lobb’s plant has the leaves narrower 
than in Mr. Gardner’s specimens ; but that is the only difference 
between them. 
Descr. A shrub, in its native mountains, according to Mr. 
Gardner, from two to four feet high, branched: dranches erect, 
angled, leafy. Zeaves alternate, oblong, copious, erect, somewhat 
imbricated, narrower in our present plant than in that found by 
Mr. Gardner, glossy, rigid, dark green above with a red margin, 
rather obtuse at the point, tapering at the base into a short 
petiole; jetiole (in part) and serrated margins red. Canicle 
cymose, terminal, of numerous deep rose-coloured flowers. Calyz- 
‘ube hemispherical, somewhat angular : the /zmé of five, spreading 
DECEMBER Ist, 1846. 
