168 Dr Graham's Description of New or Rare Plants. 



front, pale behind, ovato-elliptical, with a callous tip, but no mucro, 

 veined, serrulate, each serrature being tipped with a hair similar to those 

 on the stem, a very few also occasionally exist on or near the middle rib 

 behind. Petioles short, subappressed, and with rather tumid axillary 

 buds. Peduncles sparingly covered with a few fulvous hairs, solitary in 

 the axils of a few of the terminal leaves, of which they are equal to one- 

 half the length. Bractece ovate, scattered upon the peduncle, adpressed, 

 larger and fewer upwards. Calyx 5-cleft, persisting, white, glabrous with- 

 in and without, spreading, segments ovate, acute, gibbous -at the base. 

 Corolla (3 lines long) ovate, white, 5-toothed, teeth blunt and revolute. 

 Stamens 10, arising from a small green disk; filaments white, covered 

 with minute pubescence, swollen immediately above their origin, and 

 there somewhat concave on their inner surface, subulate upwards ; anthers 

 yellow, attached by their backs, ovato-oblong, each locularaent with two 

 small ascending awns, in front of which it opens by a pore. Stigma small, 

 red, terminal, very obscurely 5-lobed. Style erect, cylindrical, included, 

 colourless. Germen ovate, green, rather more than half the length of the 

 style, and equal to the filaments, slightly covered with obscure pubes- 

 cence, and depressed on the top, where the style is inserted. 

 This species is nearly allied to A. mucronata,vjh\ch. flowered in the Botanic 

 Garden lately, and is figured in Bot. Mag. t. 3093., but is easily distin- 

 guished by the character given above. They undoubtedly belong to the 

 same genus, but whether they should be left as species of Arhuttis, or re- 

 moved to Gualtheria or Arctostaphylos, or erected into a new genus, must 

 be chiefly regulated by the fruit, which I have not seen. l' doubt whe- 

 ther the calyx, though persisting, will become berried as in Gualtheria, 

 but the anthers are, as in that genus, provided with 4 awns. The pre- 

 sent species is a native of Mexico, and was raised by Mr Neill from seed 

 received from Mr Don. From Mr Neill we received it at the Botanic 

 Garden. In both establishments it flowered during May, and is per- 

 fectly hardy. 



Epacris ceraeflora. 



E. cercBflora ; ramulis tomentosis ; foliis lanceolatis, acuminatis, patentis- 

 simis; floribus patulis, pedunculatis, secundis; calycibus acutis, ci- 

 liatis, tubo coroUae longe brevioribus. 



Description — Stem erect, branched. Branches tomentous, purplish. 

 Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, dark green above, paler below, mucronate, 

 subpetiolate, spreading wide. Flowers collected near the extremities of 

 the branches, white, secund, peduncled, patent. Calyx segments lanceolate, 

 ciliated. Corolla, tube obscurely pentagonal, thrice as long as the calyx, 

 pitted on the outside between the calyx segments, and having nectarife- 

 rous depressions under the corresponding elevations within, somewhat con- 

 tracted upwards; limb revolute, segments subacute. Stamens subexserted; 

 filaments alternating with the nectariferous pores, and adhering through 

 their whole length to the inside of the corolla ; anthers dark leaden-co- 

 loured, pollen granules white. Stigma capitate, sublobate, flattened on 

 the top. Style glabrous, somewhat thickened above its base, and again 

 contracted, tapering a little towards the stigma. Germen green, gla- 

 brous, subrotund. Unripe capsule subturbinate, pitted at the insertion 

 of the style. Seeds erect, on a central placenta. 



This species, a native of Van Diemen's Land, was raised at the Botanic 

 Garden, Edinburgh, from seeds communicated by Mr Newbigging, and 

 likewise by the llev. Mr Craig, in January 1831. It flowered for the 

 first time in April and May 1832, the plants being still very small. It 

 appears to be ripening seed abundantly. 



Francoa appendiculata. 



F. appendiculata ; caulescens, foliis lyratis, denticulatis utrinque pubes- 



