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of greenish flowers ; JR. sanguineum^ the flowers 

 of which are crimson, and somewhat tubular; 

 R. aureum^ which has the flowers of a golden 

 yellow, and quite tubular ; and H. cereum, which 

 has roundish leaves covered with white waxy 

 dots on their upper surface, and racemes with 

 few flowers, which are rather large, and of a 

 pure white. A few species, such as R. saxatile 

 and R. Diacantha^ appear to be intermediate 

 between the Currant and the Gooseberry, as 

 they have the racemes of fruit common to the 

 one, with the spines and habit of growth of the 

 other. There is said to be another species 

 nearly allied to R. mnguineum^ with dark-purple 

 flowers, which has not yet been introduced. 



ORDER XCV.— ESCALLONIACE^. 



Of the genera included in this order (which 

 were formerly included in Saxifragacese), Escal- 

 lonia is the most important, as it contains seve- 

 ral species of ornamental South American shrubs. 

 The flowers of the different species vary consi- 

 derably : in E. rubra^ they are produced singly, 

 and the corolla, which is pink, is tubular, with 

 a short, five-cleft limb ; but in E. montevidensis 

 the flowers, which are white, are produced in 

 panicles, and have spread petals. The flowers 



