Tas. 5103. 
EPIGYNIUM tevucosorrys. 
White-fruited Hyigynium. 
Nat. Ord. VaccINIACE®.—DECANDRIA MonoGyNIa. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5010.) 
Epieyntum Jeucobotrys ; frutex epiphytica, ramulis verticillatis, radice tube- 
rosa crassa, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis grosse serratis obtusiusculis, racemis 
subterminalibus folio longioribus, bracteis minutis ciliato-serratis, pedicellis 
demum elongatis carnosis (floribusque albis) apice dilatatis, corolla urceo- 
lata obtuse pentagona; baccis depresso-globosis albis. 
Epicynium leucobotrys. Nutt. MSS. 
Whether or not Zpigynium of Klotzsch should rank as a 
genus, or perhaps more correctly as a section of Vaccinium, our 
present plant belongs to the same group as Lpigyniwm acumt- 
natum, K\., figured at Tab. 5010 of our volume for 1857, and 
we are indebted for the introduction of it to our greenhouses 
to the same venerable botanist as for that, Mr. Nuttall. It was 
imported living from the Duppla Hills, north-eastern Bengal, 
by his nephew Mr. Booth, who found it there growing on a 
species of Oak. “It is an evergreen shrub,” writes Mr. N uttall, 
“seven or eight feet high, very erect, with verticillate branches, 
a tuberous root, almost like that of a yam, but harder in sub- 
Stance, having numerous racemes of white, conic, pentagonal 
flowers, so diaphanous as (when held between the eye and the 
light) to show the ten, yellow, awned anthers within. It proves 
a hardy greenhouse shrub, bearing its pure-white flowers most 
copiously in the summer months, and its equally white and 
wax-like berries (reminding one of the “crow-berries ") in the 
autumn. 
Descr. Shrub from four to seven or eight feet high, erect. 
Branchlets verticillate. Leaves from the apices of the branchlets 
are very short. Petioles evergreen, oblong-lanceolate, scarcely 
acuminate, obtuse at the very point, spreading, scarcely serrated, 
MARCH Ist, 1859. 
