Tas. 4612. 
VACCINIUM Routuisont. 
follison’s Whortleberry. 
Nat. Ord. Vaccinrez.—Drcanpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx ovario adnatus, limbo libero 4—5-partito partitionibus den- 
tiformibus, rarius integerrimo. Corolla campanulata, urceolata v. cylindrica, 
limbo 4~5-fido seepius reflexo. Stamina corolle lobis numero dupla, limbo caly- 
cis inserta, sepe inclusa, interdum exserta; anthere seepius apice bifida, dorso 
bipartite aut mutice. Stylus erectus, staminibus longior; stigma obtusum. 
Bacca calyce vestita, 4- ant 5-locularis loculis polyspermis, rarissime 10-locularis 
loculis monospermis.—Frutices aué suffrutices, rarius arbuscule. Folia sparsa. 
Flores azillares, gemini terni v. racemosi, bracteati. Corolle albide aut coccinea. 
Vaccinium (Mutice) Rodlisoni ; erectum, glabrum, ramulis angulatis, foliis ob- 
ovato-cuneatis brevissime petiolatis coriaceis sempervirentibus spe retusis 
nitidis, margine integerrimis subrecurvis oblique penninerviis reticulatis 
subtus pallidis, racemis terminalibus paucifloris bracteatis nunc bracteo- 
latisque, bracteis longitudine pedicellorum, floribus nutantibus, corollis 
(coccineis) elongato-urceolatis, limbi lobis 5 recurvis. 
From the collection of Messrs. Rollisons, Tooting Nursery, 
where it produced its rich scarlet flowers in August 1851. In- 
troduced by their collector, who found it growing on the lava of 
the “Silent Volcanoes” of Java,-on the highest land in the 
island. We have specimens of the same from Salak mountain, 
Java, from Mr. Thomas Lobb. It forms a handsome evergreen 
bush, with glossy Box-like leaves, and what is wanted in the 
number of flowers, is compensated by their beauty of colour. 
It does not appear to be anywhere described, either under 
Vaccinium or Agapetes. It is not Agapetes microphylla, Junghuns, 
for that has leaves three to four inches long. 
Duscr. A small shrub, two feet or more high, erect, glabrous, 
much branched, the édranches erect, somewhat angular, slightly 
hairy, everywhere leafy. eaves about three-quarters of an inch 
long, alternate, spreading, obovate, subcuneate, coriaceous, ever- 
green, glossy, entire, sometimes retuse, tapering below into a 
Short pefiole, penninerved, the nerves very oblique,: reticulated, 
NOVEMBER Is7, 1851. 
