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EPACRIS impressa; z;«r. parviflora. 



Small-Jlowered Pitted Epacris. 



PENTANDRIA MO'NOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Epacridace^. 



EPACRIS. Bot. Reg. vol. \S.fol. 1531. 



E. impressa ; ramulis pubescentlbus, foliis sessilibus ovatis acuminatis pungen- 

 tibus margine scabrlusculis subtus obsolete nervosis, floribus axillarlbus soli- 

 tarlis pendulis subsessllibus, sepalis acutis margine lanulosis, corolla cylin- 

 dracea recta basi foveata. 



E. impressa. Lab. nov. holl. \. 43. t. 58. R. Brown prodr. 407. Sweet fi. 

 australas. t. A. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. \ 69 \. Bot. 3Iag. t. 3407. 



ft. parvijiora ; foliis acutissimis pungentibus margine scabris, corolla; atro-rosese 

 tubo cylindraceo limbi laciniis acutissimis. 



The supposed species of Epacris from Van Diemen's 

 Land are so very difficult to limit, that it is not improbable 

 that many of them are mere varieties of each other. It 

 must be obvious enough to any one who is acquainted with 

 them in gardens, that the same parcel of wild seeds yields 

 strikingly different individuals ; and this is conformable to 

 what occurs in their native haunts. 



Mr. Gunn, whose accurate observations are invaluable 

 as regards the Botany of Van Diemen's Land, and who has 

 studied these plants with considerable attention, has lately 

 sent over numerous wild specimens of what he regards as 

 one species, concerning which he observes, that "the colours 

 vary from a deep red, through all the paler shades of blush, 

 to pure white, so that colour constitutes no distinction ; size 

 is as variable." He distinguishes four chief varieties, viz. 

 1. red flowering, tall; 2. red flowering, dwarf; 3. white 

 flowering, tall; 4. white flowering, dwarf; in addition to 

 which many others might be named. 



