likewise by Professor Linpuey, with specimens of an Ar- 
putus gathered at Vera Cruz, which we cannot distinguish 
from the present. The var. A. seems to be the more south- 
ern state of the species. 
The Glasgow Botanic Garden (where it flowered in the 
greenhouse, in December, 1833) is indebted for the posses- 
sion of this plant to the Horticultural Society of London, to 
which it had been introduced by Mr. Doveras. It is well 
worthy a place in every collection, bearing copious ever- 
green foliage, and flowers of a snowy whiteness, well con- 
trasted with the green of the leaves. 
Descr. With us the shrub has not exceeded a foot, or 
a foot and a half in height, branched, the young branches 
and short petioles clothed with patent rigid hairs. Leaves 
oval, but varying to ovate, or even nearly cordate, coriace- 
ous, rather acute, quite entire, of a dull full green colour, 
the younger ones pubescent or even woolly. Racemes from 
the axils of the nearly terminal leaves, generally drooping, 
compound, dense. Bracteas linear-lanceolate, ciliated, re- 
flexed. Calyx with its segments obtuse, spreading, Corolla 
ovate, pure white, the mouth with five small, blunt, spread- 
ing teeth, within yellowish and slightly hairy. Filaments 
much dilated at the base, and there fringed. Anthers deep 
purple, their awns long, deflexed, yellow. Germen sub- 
globose, downy. Style straight. Stigma obtuse, yellow. 
Fig. 1. Flower and Bractea, 2, Two Stamens. 3. Pistil magnified. 
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