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ANDROME'DA phylliregefolia. 

 PhyUirea4eaved Andromeda. 



DECANDRIA MONOOYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Ericaceae. 



ANDROMEDA. Botanical Register, vol. 10. fol. 807. 



A phyllirecefolia ; foliis sempervirentibus oblongis convexis juxta apicem ser- 

 ratis, racemis pilosis axillaribus nutantibus foliorum longitudine v. lon- 

 gioribus, sepafis ovatis corolla ovata duplo brevioribus, filamentis apice 

 sigmoideis, antheris dorso bisetis. 



A. phylliresefolia. Hook. ic. plant, vol. 2. t. 122. 



Pieris 1 pliylliresefolia, DeCand. prodr. 7. 599. 



A very neat greenhouse shrub, introduced lately by 

 Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it flowered for the first time in 

 January last. It was originally discovered in West Florida, 

 at a place called Apalachicola, by the late Mr. Drummond, 

 from whom we have a specimen. 



We place the plant, with Sir W. Hooker, in Andromeda, 

 for these reasons. In the first place there seems no sufficient 

 ground for separating from Andromeda the genera proposed 

 by the Dons, which, to our apprehension, are neither limited 

 by solid characters, nor so contrived as to form useful divi- 

 sions. Secondly, the plant before us will not suit any of them 

 exactly ; so that M. DeCandolle, who admitted the proposed 

 divisions, although he thrust it into Pieris, a name in which 

 he admits there is no common sense, does so with doubt, and 

 questions whether it may not form a new genus of itself. 

 For ourselves we cannot separate it from Andromeda poli- 

 folia. 



One of the most striking characters in this very distinct 

 species is the peculiar darkness of its leaves, which thus are 

 able to set off* the snow-white flowers to great advantage. 

 They look like pearls on a negro's neck. 



