in Engler and Prantl’s ‘ Natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien,” 
have come to the conclusion that Bryanthus should be 
reserved for the species on which the genus was originally 
based, namely, B. Gmelini, Stell., a plant so far only 
known from Kamtschatka, the adjacent Komander- 
skie Islands and Ochotsk. It is a small shrublet, with 
tetramerous, rather inconspicuous flowers and _ rotate 
corollas. | ode . 
Descr.—A shvablor: 9 in. high, with ascending, rigid, 
very densely leafy branches, Leaves crowded, subsessile, 
linear, obtuse, with tightly revolute margins, }—% in. long, 
34-7 In. broad, smooth above, bisulcate and glandular- 
pubescent in the grooves. Flowers solitary from hiber- _ 
nating buds, arranged in terminal short or long, and 
someuinys very dense racemes ; pedicels slender, glint 
2 (usually 4) in. long. Sepals elliptic-oblong, §- 
ea glabrous, purpurascent. Corolla bright rose colo 
or purple, wide-campanulate, 5-fid beyond the middle; 
lobes broad, ovate, obtuse. Stamens normally 10; anthers — 
fa in, ‘long, exserted from the corolla. Ovary ’b-celled, 
glandular; styles up to { in. long. Capsule globose, % in. 
in diameter.—Ortto Srapr. 
Cultiv.—The plant here figured and described is cult 
vated in semi-shade in the rock garden at Kew, where it | 
has proved quite hardy, but has grown slowly. It is 
a loose tuft a foot through, the stems 6-9 in. high, an 
covered with heath-like evergreen leaves. It flowered 
freely for the first time in 1906, and in May it was 
attractive. . There is no marked difference between 
several species of Phyllodoce and Bryanthus as re: 
cultivation ; they have. the same heath-like habi 
foliage, and they are also alike in their preference 
peaty: soil.” "The present ‘species: is, perhaps,. the 
flowered, and it is also distinct in the spicate arrangement 
of the flowers on the stem, the other species having them 
in terminal clusters. All of them are very suitable f 
cultivation in the alpine garden or rockery. They ripen 
seeds in favourable seasons, and they may be increased 
by means of cuttings or layers.—W. Watson. 
Fig. 1, lower leaf; 2, upper leaf; 3, calyx and pistil; 4 ok, 5, ant 
6, ovary :—all enlarged. 
