ESCALLONIA 527 



Leaves variable in size, from i to ii ins. long, half or less than half as wide ; 

 doubly toothed, glossy green above, paler beneath, smooth on both sides 

 except for a line of down along the midrib above. Flowers white or rose- 

 tinted, produced from June to October in terminal panicles i^ to 3 ins. long, 

 petals nearly in. long, the bases forming a tube, the ends expanded. Calyx 

 and flower-stalks downy and glandular. 



A hybrid between E. pterocladon and rubra raised in the nursery of Messrs 

 Veitch of Exeter. It is a most attractive evergreen, flowering more or less 

 continuously from June until the frosts come, and quite as hardy as 

 E. rubra. 



E. FLORIBUNDA, Kunth. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 6404.) 



An evergreen shrub up to 10 ft. or more high when grown on walls in 

 this country, but occasionally attaining the dimensions of a small tree in 

 S. America ; branchlets slightly viscid, but not downy. Leaves i^ to 4 ins. 

 long, J to i in. wide ; obovate or narrowly oval, tapering at the base, rounded or 

 often conspicuously notched at the apex, entire or very minutely toothed, 

 smooth and bright green above, furnished with small resinous dots beneath ; 

 stalk \ to J in. long. Flowers pure white, \ in. across, with a hawthorn-like 

 fragrance, produced in terminal compound panicles, the largest of which are 

 as much as 9 ins. long and 5 ins. wide, but usually much smaller ; the lower 

 sections of the panicles come from the upper leaf-axils. 



Introduced in 1827 from S. America, where it is widely spread, reaching 

 from Venezuela to the south of Peru. Flowers in late summer and autumn. 



E. MONTEVIDENSIS, De Candolle, is a close ally found on the eastern side 

 of S. America, in S. Brazil, and in Uruguay near Mount Video. It differs in the 

 young branches being not sticky ; in the flowers, twice as large ; in the flatter 

 and more rounded flower-truss ; in the more pointed calyx-lobes being 

 furnished with minute glandular teeth, and in the smaller toothed leaves. 



These two are the handsomest of white-flowered Escallonias in cultivation. 

 They can only be grown on walls except in the very mildest parts of the 

 kingdom. 



E. ILLINITA, Presl. 



An open, loose-habited, evergreen shrub up to 10 (perhaps more) ft. high ; 

 branchlets not downy, but furnished with stalked glands, and resinous when 

 young. Leaves obovate or oval, from f in. to i\ ins. long, nearly to quite half 

 as wide ; tapered at the base, rounded or abruptly pointed at the apex, finely 

 toothed, not downy on either surface, but glossy green above and more or less 

 clammy with a resinous secretion when young ; stalk \ to in. long. Panicle 

 3 or 4 ins. long, i| ins. diameter, cylindrical, thinly hairy and glandular ; each 

 branch of the panicle one- to five-, more often three-flowered, and springing from 

 the axil of a leaflike bract. Flowers white, \ in. wide at the top, the claws of 

 the petals forming a tube \ in. long. Calyx green, bell-shaped, with five 

 linear lobes. 



Native of Chile ; introduced early in the nineteeth century. This plant has 

 an odour distinctly suggestive of the pigsty, but by no means so offensive as 

 that comparison would suggest, and not so strong as that of E. viscosa (q.v.\ _ 

 a closely allied species. E. illinita is one of the hardiest of the genus. It has" 

 for many years been grown in the open at Kew, and survives even severe 

 winters although sometimes badly cut. 



