of these older ones, indicative of numerous branches. In the axils 
of the upper leaves the peduncles appear, which, in our cultivated 
specimens, are single-flowered, but in the wild ones, the peduncle 
is branched, and bears many rather drooping flowers. Indeed, in 
our plant, the two small, alternate, leaf-like bractee, near the 
base of the peduncle, show a disposition to bear pedicels. Calyx: 
the lower part turbinate and adherent with the ovary, the upper 
part free, cup-shaped, with five acuminated, at length elongated 
and reflexed teeth or segments, reddish, glabrous. Petals five, 
inserted upon the calyx, s athulate, erect, and forming a tube for 
the greater part of their length, and, indeed, slightly cohering 
with the back of the anthers and the margins, just below the oval 
spreading or reflexed limb. Their color is a deep red, paler in the 
limb, and there, when fading, becoming brown, and distinctly 
marked with a few dark veins. Stamens inserted upon the calyx, 
alternately with the petals, and nearly equal to them in length: fila- 
ments rose colour: Aniher oblong, yellow, opening by two longi- 
tudinal clefts. Germen inferior, imperfectly two-celled by means 
of the introflexed margins of the valves, and these latter at the ex- 
tremity, have two longitudinal receptacles, which are covered with 
very minute ovules. Sty/e filiform, purple, sheathed at the base 
by a large, conical, grooved, yellow, afterwards reddish gland; up- 
wards the style is greenish, and terminated by a two-lobed, cap! 
tate stigma. «i 
Raised from seeds, sent about two years ago by Mr. Crvuick- 
sHANKs from Chili, in the Botanic Garden of Liverpool, where, 
in September of the present year (1828) it has produced its richly- 
coloured blossoms : and from the structure of these, as from the 
form of the leaves, there can, I think, be no doubt that it is the 
Esc, rubra of Ruiz and Pavyon. Our cultivated individuals, m- 
deed, exhibit no traces of the resinous dots upon the leaves? but 
our native specimens in the Herbarium, sent also by Mr. CrvuiceK- 
SHANKS, show them very distinctly : so that their absence may; 
perhaps, be considered due to the cooler temperature to which 
plants are exposed in our greenhouses. Mr. Suepaerp, indeed 
finds, that the plants flourish when planted in the open air; al dif 
they can be made to bear the winter they would constitute a great 
ornament to our shrubberies. on ae 
I possess, in my Herbarium, a variety with white flowers: an 
the Esc. glandulosa of Smrru in Rees, and Loppices (tab. 1291) 
is, probably, not distinct. As far as I am able to judge from 
various individuals in my collection, the Genus is very liable 1 
vary in the degree of pubescence, in the presence or absence © 
glands, and of the resinous dots, — eo ESP ie 
Escantonia has been considered by Jussrev’and most authors 
to belong to the Ericinez. Mr. Brown detected its affinity with 
Rizes, yet seems to consider that it should constitute a distine 
rebes kos. with ANopTERUs and some other New Holland gene 
for which he proposes the name of EscanLone®, as here adopted. 
Fig. 1. Flower, with the Peduncle and Bractee. 2. Petal and Stamem, 
3. Calyx and Pistil. 4. The same ina more advanced state. 5. Section 
the Germen. 6. Leaf of the cultivated plant. 7. Leaf froma native specimen ’ 
—All more or less magnified. 
