Tas. 4732. 
VACCINIUM ovatum. 
Ovate-leaved Whortleberry. 
Nat. Ord. VacctnrpE®.—OctTanpDrIA Monoeynia.. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4612.) 
Vaccinium ovatum ; valde ramosum, ramis patentibus purpureis rigidis junioribus 
puberulis, foliis sempervirentibus ovatis coriaceis nitidis acutis subearinatis 
brevipetiolatis dentato-serratis, racemis copiosis brevibus axillaribus termi- 
nalibusque, corollis globoso-campanulatis, filamentis hirsutis, antheris dorso 
muticis, loculis superne longe productis. 
Vaccinium ovatum. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept.v.1. p.290. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1354. 
Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. v, 2. p. 34. ; 
Vaccinium prunifolium. Hortulan. 
We received this into the Arboretum of Kew from a nursery, 
under the name of Vaccinium prunifolium ; but it is clearly the 
very little-known (as a garden plant) /. ovatwm of Pursh, first | 
discovered by Menzies in North-west America, and afterwards 
traced by Lewis and Scouler and Douglas, extending in the 
Oregon territory from the fortieth to the forty-ninth degree of 
latitude. It was introduced to the Horticultural Society by 
Douglas, and is perfectly hardy and very ornamental ; the leaves 
being evergreen and glossy, and the flowers, though much con- 
cealed by the foliage when looked on from above, are of a waxy, 
yellowish white, delicately tinged with pale pink. 5 Gas 
Duscr. A shrub about two to two and a half feet long, m 
branched, with rigid, straggling, dark-purple, terete brane: 
younger ones puberulous. Leaves rather copious, 0D ve 
petioles, ovate, or somewhat carinate, coriaceous, very acute, 
dentato-serrate, glossy, penninerved, deep green above, paler and 
yellower beneath. Racemes solitary from the axils of the leaves, 
but curved down to the underside of the branches, short, four to 
Six or more flowered. Calya with the adherent tube turbinate, 
AUGUST IsT, 1853. 
