tomentum, or sometimes of a slightly ferruginous tint. Racemes 
terminal, forming a lax panicle, the lower ones spreading or de- 
curved. Rachis stout, downy. Pedicels downy, curved down- 
wards, hence secund, bracteated ; dracteas small, ovate. Calyx 
small, deeply 5-fid, spreading. Coro//a large, ampullaceous or 
lageniform, glabrous or downy, white or greenish rose-colour ; 
the lower portion forms an inflated ring, the rest of the tube is 
hemispherical, tapering into a short contracted mouth: /imé of 
five small rounded lobes. . Stamens ten: filaments singularly 
dilated a little above the base and very hairy ; anthers of two 
compressed cells, each with a decurved awn at the back. Ovary 
globose, granulated, hairy, surrounded by an hypogynous ten-lobed 
annulus. Style columnar. Stigma depresso-capitate. W. J. H. 
Cuurt. .An Arbutus which, like the other Mexican species of the 
genus, is tolerably hardy, but not sufficiently so to enable it to 
endure the cold of our winters without some kind of protection. 
It is, therefore, necessary to treat it as a greenhouse plant. It 
grows well in a mixture of light loam and peat-soil, and may be 
increased by cuttings or seeds, or by grafting it on stocks of the 
common Arbutus or of species of allied genera. J. S. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and Pistil. 3. Stamen :—magnijied. 
