Tas. 5279. 
VACCINIUM  Imrayt. 
Dr. Inray’s Vaccinium. 
Nat. Ord. VaccintAacE&.—OcTANDRIA MoNnoGyNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx ovario adnatus ; limbo libero 4—5-partito, rarius subintegro, 
partitionibus dentiformibus: Corolla campanulata aut urceolata, limbo 4-5-fido. 
Stamina libera, corolle lobis numero dupla, partim ima basi corolle, partim 
limbo calycis inserta. Anthere bdiloculares, bitubulose, dorso biaristate aut 
muticee, antice ad apicem tantum dehiscentes. Stylus erectus, strictus. Stigma 
truncatum. Germen inferum, disco epigyno plano aut convexo, levo, limboque 
calycino coronatum, 4-5-loculare, Joculis multiovulatis. - Baeca pulposa aut 
exsucca, calycis limbo vestita, subglobosa, 4—5-locularis, Joculis oligo- aut poly- 
spermis. Semina parva, subangulata, fusca aut flavida—Frutices aué suffrutices. 
Folia sparsa, caduca aut persistentia. Flores awillares, solitarii, gemini, terni, 
Jasciculati aut racemosi. Corolle albide (virescentes) aut coceinee. Klotzsch. 
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Vaccinium (§ Scytanthemum) Jmrayi; fruticosum glaberrimum, foliis brevi- 
petiolatis sempervirentibus ovatis acuminatis integerrimis vel obsolete ser- 
ratis penninerviis, corymbis multifloris axillaribus vel terminalibus, floribus 
lutescenti-viridibus, calycibus 5-6-dentatis, corollis crassissimis 5-6-fidis, 
laciniis ovatis erectis, marginibus involutis, antheris muticis. 
Vaccinium Imrayi. Hook. Ic. Plant. Rar. v. 3. t. 292. Walp. Repert. v. 2. 
p. 123; Annal. v. 2.p.1100. Klotzsch in Linnea, v. 24. p. 61. 
This is a remarkable-looking Vaccinium, native of the island 
of Dominica (not “St. Domingo,” as stated by mistake by Dr. 
Klotzsch), and was sent to our garden, along with good speci- 
mens for the herbarium, by Dr. Imray of that island, its dis- 
coverer. Dr. Klotzsch, in his memoir on the Linnean class 
Bicornes, published in the ‘ Linnea,’ /. ¢., has deemed it worthy 
to form a section or group of the genus Vacciniwm to which he 
has given the name Scytanthemum. It is a handsome evergreen 
shrub, two and a half to three feet high, with glossy coriaceous 
leaves, often three inches long. The flowers are large for the 
genus, and remarkable for their uniform yellow-green colour, 
unusual in this genus, and for the very carnoso-coriaceous tex- 
NOVEMBER lst, 1861. 
