height and width. It flowers in its native country accord- 
ing to the situation at any time between Christmas and 
May. At Kew, where it is quite hardy, the flowers are 
produced in early spring and last about a month. Like 
other arborescent species of Arctostaphylos it sheds its 
bark annually. This peels off in May or June in large, 
loose flakes, laying bare the green new bark which soon 
turns red. A. pungens, H. B. K., with which A. Manzanita 
has been confused, is a native of Mexico, an autumn 
flowerer with narrower leaves and shorter, smaller in- 
florescences. ; 
Descr.—A_ shrub or a tree, up to over 30 ft. high, with 
a wide spreading crown; young branches more or less 
pubescent and glandular, at length glabrescent. Leaves 
ovate or elliptic-ovate, obtuse or acute, shortly mucronate, 
rounded or acute at the base, 14-12 in. long, 3-14 in. 
broad, coriaceous, finely pubescent when young, soon 
glabrous ; petiole #—% in. long, pubescent. Panicle short, 
ovoid or corymbose, many-flowered, with the short 
peduncle up: to 13 in. long, glandular-pubescent with the 
exception of the usually glabrous pedicels; bracts per- 
sistent, long-acuminate from an ovate base; pedicels up 
to ¢ in. long. Calyw pinkish-white, segments ;’, in. long. 
Corolla urceolate, ovoid, somewhat over + in. long, white 
or pinkish, with minute lobes. Berry depressed-globose, 
4 in. long, 3-4 in. in diameter, ultimately brownish-red.— 
Orro Srapr. | 
Fig. 1, flower ; 2, pistil with disk and part of the calyx; 3 and 4, stamens :— 
all enlarged. 
