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PERNETTYA angustifolii. 

 Narrow-leaved Pernettya, 



DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 

 Nat. ord, Ericace^, § Arbute^. 

 PERNETTIA. Botanical Recfister, vol. 20. fol. 1673. 



P. angustifolia ; erecta ramosa, ramulis minutissime puberulis angulatis, 

 foliis lineari-lanceolatis mucronato-acuminatis remote serratis glabris 1- 

 nerviis, pedicellis axillaribus solitariis unifloris folio dimidio brevioribus 

 glabriusculis nudis basi ima tautum bracteolatis. 



Fruticulus semjjervh'ens, rigidus, erectus, ramosus, glaber. Folia quatn 

 in P. phillyreifolia duplh minora et tninus rigida; Flores adhuc minor es ; et 

 pedicelli e bracteolis quibusdam erumpentes nee per dimidiam longitudinem et 

 ultra squamulis imbricati. 



In the gardens this plant is called Pernettya phillyrei- 

 folia, a Peruvian species collected by Dombey. But upon 

 comparing it with authentic specimens of the latter, for which 

 I am indebted to the Administration of the Royal Museum of 

 Paris, it proves to be different in several respects. The leaves 

 are much smaller in all directions, and not so rigid ; the 

 flowers too are smaller, and the pedicels are quite destitute of 

 scales upon their sides, unless at the very base ; in P. philly- 

 reifolia, on the contrary, the pedicels are clothed with small 

 scales nearly to the calyx, or at least as far as the middle. 



Fig. 1. represents the calyx spread open so as to show the 

 10 hypogynous scales, which stand in pairs opposite the sepals; 

 fig. ^. is one of the stamens with the cloven 4-horned anther. 



This species is said to be a native of Valdivia. It was 

 sent me by Mr. Cameron, the excellent manager of the Bir- 

 mingham Botanic Garden, and has also been communicated 

 by Messrs. Lowe and Co. of Clapton. 



It is a very pretty little shrub, hardy, but like all the 

 others of the genus very subject to die during the hotter part 



