ESCALLONIA 529 



lobes, and covered with sticky glands ; flower-s'alk downy. Fruit top-shaped, 

 with persistent calyx and style. 



Introduced from the Island of Chiloe by Wm. Lobb, about 1846, and now 

 one of the commonest evergreen shrubs in the south-western maritime districts, 

 where it is frequently used to make hedges. In the London district and 

 further north it needs in most places the protection of a wall, making indeed 

 one of the handsomest of evergreen wall-coverings. It thrives admirably in 

 most of the southern seaside resorts, flowering during June and the succeeding 

 months. 



E. INGRAMI, Hort., appears to be intermediate (perhaps a hybrid) between 

 E. macrantha and E. punctata ; its leaves are smaller and proportionately 

 narrower than those of E. macrantha; flowers of a similar colour, but scarcely 

 so large, 



E. ORGANENSIS, Gardner. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 4274.) 



An evergreen shrub of robust habit, 4 to 6 ft. high, with stout, angled, very 

 leafy branchlets ; not downy but slightly glandular-resinous. Leaves narrowly 

 obovate or oval, stiff, the largest 3 ins. long by I in. wide ; toothed except towards 

 the tapering base, rather blunt at the apex, smooth ; stalk very short, reddish. 

 Flowers clear rosy red, \ to i in. across, produced late in the year in short, 

 densely flowered, terminal panicles ; petals forming a tube at the base, upper 

 part spreading ; flower-stalks and calyx quite smooth or minutely glandular, 

 the latter with five narrow, awl-shaped lobes. 



Discovered in ravines near the summit of the Organ Mountains ot Brazil 

 by Mr Gardner in 1841, and introduced to England by W. Lobb very soon 

 after. Not hardy except in Cornwall, etc., but worth growing on a wall for 

 its beautiful rosy flowers. 



E. PHILIPPIANA, Masters. 



A deciduous shrub of robust habit and graceful form, 6 to 8 ft. high, the 

 branches very leafy, often arching. Leaves obovate, \ to f in. long, \ in. or 

 less wide, tapering at the base, toothed ; quite smooth on both surfaces. 

 Flowers pure white, \ to \ in. across, produced during June and July in the 

 uppermost leaf-axils and at the end of short twigs, the whole forming a leafy 

 raceme | to \\ ins. long ; calyx top-shaped, with five triangular lobes. 



Native of Valdivia ; introduced by Pearce for Messrs Veitch, between 1860 

 and 1866, and first flowered in their nursery in 1873. Tnis is undoubtedly 

 the hardiest of all known Escallonias ; it has survived without any injury 32 

 of frost at Kew, quite unprotected. It is also very distinct ; besides being 

 deciduous, its petals dp not, as in so many species, form a kind of tube. 

 Both in leaf and flower it bears a considerable resemblance to the Australian 

 shrub Leptospermum scoparium an ally, however, of the myrtle. It is 

 undoubtedly one of the most pleasing of later flowering shrubs. 



E. PTEROCLADON, Hooker. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 4827.) 



An evergreen, bushy shrub, usually 4 to 8 ft. high, but twice as high when 

 trained against a wall, or grown in very mild localities ; branchlets downy 

 and distinctly angled. Leaves narrowly obovate, to I in. long, \ to \ in. 

 wide ; tapering at the base to a very short stalk, toothed ; dark shining green 

 above, paler beneath and smooth on both surfaces except for a line of down 

 on the midrib above. Flowers in slender racemes ii to 3 ins. long, terminal - 



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