Tas. 4688. 
VACCINIUM eEryTHRINUM. 
Red-twigged Whortleberry. 
Nat. Ord. Vacctnrir#.—Dercanpria Monoeyntia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4612.) 
Vaccinium erythrinum; erectum glabrum, ramulis rubris, foliis ovatis brevi- 
petiolatis obtusis coriaceis integerrimis sempervirentibus, racemis terminali- 
bus aggregatis multifloris foliaceo-bracteatis, bractcis flores longe superan- 
tibus, floribus pentameris secundis nutantibus, calycibus glabris, corollis 
urceolatis, staminibus inclusis, filamentis discoque magno epigyno hirsutis, 
antherarum muticarum loculis truncatis. 
omen 
While the recent labours of Dr. Wight on the Vacciniaceous 
plants of India have induced him to refer all known to him 
(including the genera Agapetes, Ceratostemma, and Thibaudia 
of authors) to the true Vaccinium, Dr. Klotzsch’s investiga- 
tions of the extire family have led him to the opinion that 
the genera required to be multiplied, so that we find in the 
‘Linnea,’ vol. xxiv. (for 1851), no less than fourteen new 
genera added, and the previously existing ones thus increased — 
to twenty-eight! According to Dr. Klotzsch’s views, our pre- 
sent plant, together with our V. Rollisone (Tab. 4612), would, 
we presume, constitute another new genus, for in its truncated 
anther-cells (not ending in long tubes) it seems to differ from all 
his genera, while, according to Dr. Wight’s views and my own, 
this would be a character of minor importance, seeing how much 
in habit and all other characters the species accords with Vacci- 
nium in its ordinary acceptance. Wherever this is placed it 
must be associated with V. Rollisoni, and it is a native of the 
same country, having been equally sent from Java to Messrs. 
Rollison’s Tooting Nursery, by their collector, Mr. Henshall. 
Than that, however, it is a far more lovely species, with much 
larger evergreen leaves, more numerous and larger flowers, and 
the young branches, and the petioles and even the midribs and 
DECEMBER Ist, 1852. 
