the Australian Cranberry, as being *' of a very delicate 

 peach-bloom colour, having something of the consistency 

 and taste of the Siberian Crab." We wish, if it ripens its 

 fruit in this country, it may be found worthy of even this 

 description. 



Branches mouse-colour, taper. Leaves close, an inch 

 long, quite smooth, coriaceous, linear, acute at each end, 

 beneath whitish, the surface being covered by numerous 

 minute stomata, and marked by parallel veins, which only 

 traverse the lower stratum of parenchyma. Racemes re- 

 curved, 3-flowered. Pedicels short, having at their base 

 4 hard, decussating bracteae. Calyx 5-leaved, the sepals 

 small, ovate, hard, pale, bordered with pink, and over- 

 lapping each other. Corolla hypogynous, campanulate, a 

 little contracted in the middle, easily separable into 5 petals, 

 being, however, truly monopetalous, the tube bearing in 

 the middle in the inside a bearded ring. Stamens 5, nearly 

 sessile at the recesses of the corolla, traces of their fila- 

 ments being visible as far as the bearded ring. Anthers 

 1 -celled, opening longitudinally, thickest at the apex. 

 Ovarium seated in a cyathiform disk. Style slightly hairy. 



J. L. 



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