Tas. 4827. 
ESCALLONIA prerocrapon. 
Winged-branched Escallonia. 
Nat. Ord. SaxtrraGEm®.—PEnTANDRIA Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TAB. 4473.) 
Esca.Lonta pterocladon ; fruticosa ramosissima, ramis alte sinuato-alatis alis 
ciliatis, foliis brevi-petiolatis parvis lanceolatis coriaceis nitidis glaberrimis 
glanduloso-serratis, floribus numerosissimis axillaribus solitariis nutantibus 
secundis spicas foliosas formantes, pedicellis brevibus bracteolatis, calycis 
tubo turbinato levi laciniis triangulari-subulatis marginibus parce glandu- 
losis, petalorum unguibus in tubum cylindricum approximatis, stylo basi 
glandula epigyna (seu toro) magna apice laciniata vaginato. 
“A decidedly hardy shrub, four to five feet high, an abundant 
bloomer, and fragrant.” These are recommendations for a bushy 
plant with leaves like a small-leaved myrtle, and very pretty, al- 
most Epacris-like flowers, white tinged with red. It inhabits 
Western Patagonia, where it was detected by Mr. Wm. Lobb; 
and it flowered in the open border at the Messrs. Veitch and 
Son’s Nursery in July, 1854. There are two South Chilian 
Species of this genus described and figured by Péppig, viz., 
Liscallonia alpina and LE. florida (Nov. Gen. et Sp. t. 13 et 14); 
but the former has obovate leaves, and only a few terminal, 
erect flowers upon the branches: the latter is extremely dif. 
ferent in the structure of the flowers, and neither of them has 
the curiously-winged branches. These wings indeed, in a mea- 
Sure, disappear on the older branches and stems, for they crack 
and -peel off. x 
Descr. A small much-branched shrub, with spreading 
branches: the old wood clothed with loose, cracked, papyra- 
ceous bark: the dranches red, straight, rigid, singularly angled, 
and winged with vertical ale, which are sinuated and downy or 
fringed at the edge. Leaves scattered, copious, small, the largest 
of them less than half an inch long, patent or often reflexed, per- 
manent, lanceolate, acute, coriaceous, dark-green, shining, penni- 
JANUARY Ist, 1855. 
