528 ESCALLONIA 



E. LANGLEYENSIS, Veitch. 



An elegant, evergreen, or in hard winters, semi-evergreen shrub, becoming 

 eventually 8 ft. or more high, and producing long, slender, arching shoots in 

 one season ; branchlets copiously furnished with stalked glands. Leaves \ to 

 i in. long, about half as wide ; obovate or narrowly oval, toothed, stalkless ; 

 smooth and glossy green above, specked beneath with minute resin-glands. 

 Flowers of a charmingly bright rosy carmine, \ in. across, produced during 

 June and July (a few later) in short racemes of about half a dozen blossoms 

 terminating short leafy twigs ; calyx and flower-stalk slightly glandular. 



This very attractive shrub was raised in Messrs Veitch's nursery at Langley 

 about 1893, by crossing E. Philippiana with E. punctata. Although not quite 

 so hardy as the first of these, it is hardy enough to stand all but the severest of 

 frosts, and even then will break up again from the ground. It is distinct from 

 other Escallonias in its slender arching branches, which bear the racemes on 



ESCALLONIA LANGLEYENSIS. 



the upper side. The colour of the flowers, too, is different from that of any 

 other Escallonia except 



E. EDINENSIS, a hybrid of similar origin and almost identical in leaf and 

 flower, raised in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. 



E. MACRANTHA, Hooker. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 4473.) 



An evergreen shrub, 6 to 10 ft. high, forming a dense bush of luxuriant 

 habit, the glutinous branchlets covered with down, intermingled with which are 

 numerous erect glands. Leaves broadly oval or obovate, tapering at the base ; 

 I to 3 ins. long, \ to if ins. wide ; doubly toothed, smooth, and of a dark 

 shining green above, dotted beneath with numerous resinous glands ; stalkless. 

 Racemes terminal, sometimes branched and forming a panicle, 2 to 4 ins. long. 

 Flowers bright rosy red, about f in. long and wide ; petals spreading at the top, 

 their claws erect and forming a tube ; calyx bell-shaped with narrow, pointed 



