collected it largely in Hermite Island, in nearly 56° S. lat. 
Specimens from more northern localities referred to this 
species require confirmation or verification. 
P. angustifolia, Lindl., was first recorded from Valdivia 
(about 40° S. lat.), and there are several wild specimens 
in the Kew Herbarium from the same locality. It was 
in cultivation at Kew between 1843 and 1853, as specimens 
dried by A. Williamson attest; but it disappeared many 
years ago, having probably been killed by frost. In 1902 
H. J. Elwes, Esq., F.R.S., presented seed to Kew collected 
by himself at Hnsenada, Lake Llanquihue, in about 
41° 30’ S. lat., from which a fresh stock has been raised. 
In a circular, issued about twenty-five years ago, Mr. 
L. 'T’. Davis, of Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland, 
states that he commenced some thirty years previously 
raising seedlings from “ P. angustifolia, the hardiest and 
best, free-fruiting variety of P. mucronata then in cultiva- 
tion.” From all the evidence before us, there is little 
doubt that this was a narrow-leaved variety of the 
genuine P. mucronata, and not the P. angustifolia, Lindl. 
At all events the plant commonly cultivated at the 
present time under the name of angustifolia, is certainly 
P. mucronata. 
Under cultivation every part of a plant is liable to 
variation, and this may be intensified by continued 
selection. In the case of vegetables grown for the table 
the root, the stem, the foliage, the inflorescence and the 
fruit have been in turn moulded to the demand of the 
cultivator. With decorative plants grown for the gratifi- 
cation of the eye and not of the palate, form and colour 
In the flowers and fohage have been the objects aimed at. — 
It is singular that Pernettya mucronata is, perhaps, the 
only case at present in which the possibilities of colour- 
variations in the fruit have been worked upon. Some of 
the results are indicated in the accompanying plate. — 
There is, perhaps, nothing to put beside them except the _ 
not uncommon cases in which under cultivation plants — 
with red fruits sport to yellow as in I. lex, Coffea, Cratequs 
and Solanum. ‘ 
Descr.—An evergreen, much-branched shrub, one to 
four feet high under cultivation, young parts soon be- 
coming glabrous. Branches thin, rigid, Leaves alternate, 
