Tas. 4473. " 
ESCALLONIA macranrTua. 
Large red-flowered Escallonia. 
Nat. Ord. SAXIFRAGEZ.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4274.) 
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Escattonra (Sect. Stereorylon, Presl) macrantha; ramulis glanduloso-pubes- 
centibus, foliis obovato-ellipticis obtusiusculis reticulatis serratis basi cunea- 
tis glabris subtus resinoso-punctatis, egg terminali, bracteolis deciduis, 
calycis glanduloso-pilosi laciniis subulatis. 
EscaLLONIa macrantha. Hook. et Arn. in Bot. Mise. v. 3. p. 341. 
Our first knowledge of this fine Hscallonia was from Mr. 
Cuming, who collected specimens in Chiloe (n. 26 of his Her- 
barium) ; but it was Messrs. Veitch who imported living plants 
to Exeter, from the same country, through their collector Mr. 
W. Lobb. As might be expected from its native locality, it 
proves hardy, and is assuredly the handsomest of all the 
species of Hscallonia known to us. It flowers in June, and 
continues in blossom for a long period. : 
Descr. A handsome shrub, two to three feet or more high, 
branched. Branches terete, the younger ones clothed with 
glandular pubescence. eaves alternate, obovato-elliptical, rather 
_ obtuse, cuneate at the base, strongly and doubly serrated at the 
margin, reticulated on the surface, glabrous, dark and shining 
above, beneath paler and dotted with resinous points. Panicle 
terminal : pedicels bracteolated, the bracteoles deciduous. Flowers 
large, red. Calye turbinate, clothed with stipitate viscid glands ; 
the lower portion of the tube adherent with the ovary, the upper 
half free, campanulate, cut half-way down into five, erect or 
slightly spreading, subulate ¢eeth. Corolla of five, spathulate 
petals, the claws erect and forming a tube, the /amine spreading 
horizontally. Stamens as long as the tube. Ovary two-celled. 
Style columnar, surrounded at the base by a large, furrowed 
Gland. Stigma thick, dilated, obscurely two-lobed. Fruit tur- 
binato-cylindrical, surmounted by the spreading persistent limb 
of the calyx and the style. W. J. H. 
OCTOBER lst, 1849. 
