Pernettya Pentlandii was raised by J. Anderson Henry, 
F.L.S., from seeds sent from an elevation of 14,000 feet on 
the Quitonian Andes by his and our late correspondent, 
Dr. Jameson ; it flowered in June, fruited in November, and 
proved quite hardy at Trinity Lodge, Edinburgh. 
Descr. A rigid, branched, small shrub. Branches and 
branchlets angled, setulose or glabrous, leafy. Leaves 
crowded or sparse, two-thirds of an inch long and under, 
ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, serrulate, not mucronate or 
pungent, glabrous, very coriaceous, shining, rugose beneath 
when dry ; petiole very short; young ciliate-toothed. Flowers 
solitary, axillary, drooping; pedicels puberulous, longer or 
shorter than the leaves, red; bracteoles minute, few, scattered. 
Calyz-lobes ovate, acute, tumid and fleshy, but not other- 
wise much enlarged in fruit. Corolla one-third of an inch 
long, white, ovoid-globose; teeth minute, recurved. Sta- 
mens ten, filaments puberulous, dilated at the base ; anthers 
_ with four short bristles. Berry the size of a large pea, 
dark blue-purple—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, portion of branch, leaf, pedicel, and flower ; 2, stamens ; 3, ovary 
and disk ; 5, fruit; 6, the same cut across transversely :—all magnified. 
