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EPACRIS* nivalis. 

 Snowy Epacris, 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Epacrideje R. Br. {Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 183.) 



EPACRIS Forst. — Calyx coloratus, multibracteatus, bracteis textura 

 calycis. Corolla tubulosa, limbo imberbi. Stamina epipetala; antheris 

 supra medium peltatis. Squamulce 5, hypogynse. Capsula placentis co- 

 lumnar centrali adnatis. Fruticuli ramosi, scepius glabri. Folia sparsa, 



petiolata v. basi simplici. Flores axillares, in spicam foliatam scepius 

 digesti, albi v. purpurascentes. — R. Br. prodr. 550. 



E. nivalis ; floribus pendulis racemosis, foliis lanceolatis sessilibus attenuato- 

 acuminatis subtus striatis, pedunculis calycebis brevioribus, corollis cam- 

 panulatis basi constrictis : tubo calycem bis superante. 



E. nivalis. Loddiges' botanical cabinet, t. 1821. 



Frutex sempervirens, ramosus, 2-3-pedalis, floribus niveis pendulis onustus. 



Ramuli arachnoideo-pubescentes, fusco-purpurei. Folia ovato-lanceolata, v. 



lanceolata, reflexo-patentia, acuminatissima, glabra, subtus striata. Sepala 



et bractese ovatce, acutce, albce, margine lanulosce. Corolla foliorum longi- 



tudine, campanulata, intra calycem constricta. 



Introduced from New Holland by Henry Moreton Dyer, 

 Esq., vice-president of the Horticultural Society, who gave 

 seeds of it, in 1829, to Messrs. Loddiges, in whose Botanical 

 Cabinet an excellent figure appeared in July last. 



It forms an evergreen bush, which, when loaded like 

 an Andromeda with hundreds of snow-white flowers, is 

 exceedingly ornamental. Any greenhouse will afford it 

 protection enough in winter; and in summer it will bear 

 the open air of this climate. It increases by cuttings. 



* From \x), upon, and «*g<s, the summit of a mountain ; alluding to the 

 native situation of several of the species. 



