punetata by Miquel; it differs slightly from De Candolle’s 
description, in the flowers being often in twos and threes. 
Engler, in his Mondgraph of Escallonia, &c., in the Linnea 
(vol. xxxvi. p. 544), refers Lechler’s specimens to Ff. 
macrantha, Hook. and Arn. (Tab. 4473 of this work), which 
is a very much larger plant, with numerous and much larger 
flowers. 
E. rubra var. punctata flowers freely in the open air 
against a south wall, in the month of July, in the Royal 
Gardens, and though not so handsome as H. macrantha, 1s 
a very attractive plant. 
Descr. A shrub, three to six feet high, much branched, 
evergreen, more or less clothed with resinous pubescence 
glands; branches slender, twiggy, with rich brown bark. | 
Leaves one to one and a half inch long, deep bright green, 
sessile or narrowed into a very short petiole, elliptic-ovate 
acute, finely serrated, the serration often irregular ; upper 
surface glossy with deeply impressed veins; under paler, 
smooth, glabrous or glandular-pubescent, or gland-dotted. 
Flowers one to four, rarely more, in terminal corymbs, 
suberect, pedicels a quarter to half an inch long, pubescent. 
Calyz-tube turbinate, limb of five spreading entire or serrate 
triangular-ovate acuminate lobes, rather longer than the 
tube. Corolla deep dark red; petals one-third to half an 
inch long, cohering in an obtusely five-angled tube, with 
thickened angles (the overlapping margins), tips of the 
petals about twice as broad as the claws, rounded, revolute. — 
Stamens equalling thie tube in length, anther-tips exserted. 
Stigma very shortly exserted.—J. D. H. 
Fig. i; Flower cut open longitudinally ; 2, stamen ; 3, top of style and stigma; 
4, disk surmounting the ovary and base of style :—all enlarged. 
