CHAP. LVI. ESCALLONIACE A. ESCALLO‘NI4A. 993 
Is. each, and of seeds, 6d. a packet ; at Bollwyller, plants are 2 franes each ; 
and at New York, 25 cents. 
Genus II. 
ESCALLO‘'N/A Mutis. Tur Escationta. Lin, Syst. Pentandria 
Monogfnia. 
Identification. Mutis in Lin. fil. Supp., t. 21. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p.2.; Don’s Mill, 8. p. 192. 
Synonyme. Steredxylon Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Per. Prod., p. 38. 4 y k 
Derivation. From Escallon, the pupil and companion of Mutis, during his travels in New Spain. 
Gen. Char., §c. Tube of the calyx semiglobose, adnate to the ovarium ; 
limb 5-toothed or 5-lobed. Petals 5, arising from the calyx. Stamens 5; 
anthers ovate-oblong. Stigma peltate. Style filiform, permanent. Cap- 
sule baccate. Seeds numerous. (Don’s Mill., iti. p. 192.) — Subevergreen 
half-hardy shrubs, natives of South America, and more especially of Chili, 
with the leaves full of resinous glands. Propagated with the greatest ease 
by cuttings ; and growing freely in common garden soil. 
% EF. rubra Pers. (Hook. Bot. Mag., t.2890., and 746 
our fig.'746.), Steredxylon ribrum Ruiz et Pav., is a 
smoothish evergreen shrub, with numerous, twiggy, 
rounded branches, which, when young, are clothed 
with glandular hairs. The leaves are obovate-oblong, 
acuminated, serrated, and, in their native country, full 
of resinous dots beneath. A tuft of young leaves 
springs from the axil of each of the older ones, indica- 
tive of numerous branches. The peduncles are 2—7- } 
flowered. Lobes of the calyx denticulated. Petals XY od | 
spathulate, red, conniving, but spreading a little at ° DEL 
the apex. A native of Chili, on the mountains of Colocolo, in the fissures 
of rocks, and about Valparaiso. It was introduced in 1827. When trained 
against a wall, it grows to the height of 6 ft. or 8 ft.; flowering from July to 
September. It is readily propagated by cuttings, planted in sandy soil, under 
a hand-glass ; and the plants, when placed against a wall, require no protec- 
tion whatever during winter. In the Bot. Misc., iii, p.252., three forms of 
this species are recorded : — 
E. r. 1 glabritscula Hook. et Arn., with glandular branches, leaves highly pubescent, and red 
flowers, which may be considered as the species. 
E. x. 2 albifiiya Hook. et Arn. ; E. glanduldsa Bot. Cab., t. 291. ; with white flowers, 
E. r. 3 pubéscens Hook, et Arn., with pubescent branches, and red flowers. 

There are plants of these varieties at Kew, the Horticul- 
tural Society’s Garden, Messrs. Loddiges’s, in the Goldworth 
Arboretum, and in the Addlestone Nursery, which have 
stood out as bushes in the open garden, for several years, 
without the slightest protection during winter. 
_ « FE. montevidénsis Dec. Prod., iv. p.4.; E. floribanda 
var. B montevidénsis Schlecht.; E. bifida Link et Otto 
Abbild., t. 23., Bot. Reg., t. 1467.; and our fig. 747.3 is a 
smooth shrub, with white flowers, very like those of the 
hawthorn, which are produced in great abundance from July 
to September. It is a native of Brazil, on sandy banks and 
pastures; and was introduced in 1827. It forms a remark- 
ably vigorous-growing bush, with long, flexible, rope-like 
shoots, and is very prolific in flowers. It is so hardy as to 
have stood through several winters, as a bush, in the open 
ground of the Kensington Nursery; so that we might almost 
have been justified in placing it among the hardy shrubs. 

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