Tas; 7805. 
VACCINIUM paprirotiom. 
Native of Madeira. 
Nat. Ord. Vaccinracgem. Tribe Evvacciniea. 
Genus Vaccinium, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 573). 
Vaccinium (Euvaccinium) padifoliwm ; arbuscula v. arbor parva, foliis deciduis 
ovato-oblongis acutis serrulatis subtus pubescentibus, racemis foliosis, 
pedicellis cernuis, bracteis foliaceis serrulatis, calycis lobis late ovatis, 
corolla campanulata roseo-luteola breviter 5-loba, lobis obtusis, antheris 
puberulis ecalcaratis tubulis loculos equantibus, baccis cceruleis. 
V. padifolium, Sm. in Rees Cyclop. vol. xxxvi. (1819), Vaccin. n. 22. Loud. 
Arboret. Brit. vol. ii. p. 1164 (exel. syn.). 
P. maderense, Link Enum. Hort. Berol. p. 375 (1821). DO. Prodr. vol. vii. 
p. 567. Lowe Man. Fl. Mader. p.580. H. Wats. in Godman Nat. Hist. 
Azores, p. 191. 
V. Arctostaphylos, Wil/d. Sp. Pl. vol. ii. p. 353 pro parte. Andrews Bot. 
Repos. t. 30, Ait. Hort. Kew Ed. vol. ii. p. 358 (pro parte). 
The Madeiran whortleberry was first published by Sir 
James Smith in Rees’ Cyclopedia in 1819, a work very 
naturally overlooked by the botanists of the day, as in- 
deed it is down to the present period. It was hence again 
published by Link in 1821, under the name of V. maderense. 
It is very closely allied to V. Arctostaphylos, Willd. of 
Asia Minor and the Caucasus, if not indeed specifically 
the same species, as is held by many botanists, notwith- 
Standing its wide severance in geographical area, in which 
respect it recalls Rhododendron ponticum, a plant found 
nowhere between Asia Minor and South Spain. V. Arcto- 
staphylos is figured at t. 974 of this magazine, and a com- 
parison of its figure with that of V. padifoliwm shows such 
differences as there are between them. : 
Another and indeed more closely allied plant is V. 
longiflorum, Wikstr. a form of V. cylindraceum, Smith (but 
kept apart by Guthnick in the “ Flora Azorica,” a native 
of the Azores, in which the corolla is sometimes a full inch 
long and cylindrical. The late Mr. H. Watson, who made 
JuLy Ist, 1893. : 
