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* PERNETTIA mucronata. 



Pointed-leaved Pernettia. 



DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Eeice^. Jiiss. {Introduction to the Natural System of 

 Botany, p. 182.) 



PERNETTIA Gaudichaud. Calyx 5-partitus siccus. Corolla globosa, 

 limbo 5-dentato. Stamina 10, hypogyna ; Jilamentis basi dilatatis, antkeris 

 muticis: lobis apice angustatis bidentatis. Ovarium 5-loculare, polyspermum ; 

 squamis 10 hypogynis ambientibus. Capsula baccata polysperma — Frutices 

 (Australi-Americani), foliis parvis sempervirentibus, pedunculis axillaribus 

 paucifioris. 



P. mucronata ; foliis ovatis serratis mucronatis pedunculis laxis brevioribus, 



squamis hypogynis integris. 

 P. mucronata ; Gaudichaud in Ann. des sc. vol. 5. p. 102. 

 Arbutus mucronata ; Lin.Jil. suppl. 239. Forst. Comment. G'ott. 9. p. 31. 



Graham in Bot. Mag. t. 3093. 



For the opportunity of publishing this interesting plant 

 we are indebted to William Harrison, Esq. by whom it was 

 communicated from his garden at Cheshunt, in July, 1833. 

 It has there already acquired a size which is quite remark- 

 able for so small a plant, considering how young the speci- 

 men still is. Within three years it has formed a bush three 

 feet six inches in diameter, and two feet six inches high. It 

 is a hardy evergreen shrub, of considerable beauty, on ac- 

 count of the neat appearance and dark colour of its foliage ; 

 its flowers are pretty, but they are small, and do not make 

 much appearance. Mr. Harrison cultivates it in peat, as an 

 American plant. 



It is usually called an Arbutus ; but it agrees with that 

 genus neither in appearance nor in structure. In both 



* Named by M. Gaudichaud " after Dom Pernetty, the author of the ac- 

 count of a voyage to the Falkland Islands, a work remarkable for its interest as 

 ■well as for its candour and exactness." The original species of the genus was 

 mentioned by this traveller under the name of " Bruyere dfeuilles pointues." 



