supplementary to Eric, of Plants and Hort. Brit. 459 



leathery leaves, and their rugged dark-green surface, and bright cinnamon 



or rusty colour underneath ; it also differs essentially in the bracteas that 



surround the flowers being straight and erect, not reflexed, as in R. arbd- 



reum ; but the most distinguishing character is, its bearing an appendage 



on every alternate filament, a little above the base, sometimes one on each 



side. (Sweet's Flower-Garden, June.) 



CLXXI. Epacridece. 



504. E'PACRIS. 



variabilis .B.C. variable * i_J or 2 ja.f Pk N.S.W. 1829. C s.p Bot. cab. 1816 



Messrs. Loddiges raised this, with several others, differing in form and 

 colour of flowers, in 1829, from seeds sent home by Mr. MacLeay to 

 Mr. Dyer, who kindly communicated the seeds to them. The picture 

 represents it an ornamental species, as the pendulous tubular corols are 

 thickly placed on the branches, and are of a pinkish colour. (Bot. Cab., 

 June.) 

 nivalis i?. C. mowy-flwd a i_| or 3 mr W N.Holl. 1829. C s.p Bot. cab. 1829 



Raised from seeds presented to Messrs, Loddiges, in 1829, by H. 

 M. Dyer, Esq. The plants, in two years, grew to the height of two 

 feet, and flowered in great abundance in the month of March. (Bot. Cab., 

 July.) 



E'pacris onosmseflora is figured in the Bot. Mag., July, t. 3168., and is 

 stated to inhabit peaty bogs at Blackheath, on the Blue Mountains of 

 New Holland, at an elevation of 3400 ft. above the sea's level. It beau- 

 tifies the green-house with its blossoms in March. 



Acrotriche ovalifolia is figured in the Bot. Mag. for July, t. 3171., where 

 it is stated of it, " As an ornamental plant for the green-house, it cannot 

 boast of much beauty, until the flowers are examined with a microscope, 

 when the delicate structure of the corolla, the singular tuft of hairs at the 

 extremity of the segments of the corolla, and the rich orange-coloured 

 anthers, lying in the sinuses of those segments, become apparent." This 

 species inhabits, at least as one situation, the exposed summits of sandy 

 ridges in New Holland, and bears white drupaceous fruit. It may be 

 added, that the subfaces of the leaves of Acrotriche cordata are especially 

 elegant objects, being scored lengthwise with parallel and alternate stripes 

 of green and glaucous, ciliated at the margin, and tipped with a short 

 prickle. 



CLXXXVI. Co7npositce § ksterecs. ^'ster laeVis L. is figured in the 

 Botanical Register for June, t. 1500., and there stated to differ from A. 

 cyaneus (noticed in p. 349.), in being totally destitute of glaucousness ; in 

 having its leaves more acuminate, and rougher at their edge ; in the radical 

 leaves being narrower (these are either serrate or entire) ; and in having 

 the involucres obconical, not campanulate, with the bases of their scales 

 much less pale than the bases of those of A. cyaneus ; and in the florets 

 of the ray being of a pale blue colour. 



Composites § Anthemidece. Chrysanthemum fndicum var. plenum, the 

 double yellow Indian chrysanthemum, is figured in the Bot. Reg. for June, 

 t. 1502. This variety " is not much cultivated, because of its not flowering 

 except after very hot and dry summers, such as that of 1831 ; but when its 

 blossoms are produced they are extremely neat, and form a striking addi- 

 tion to the few flowers that December produces." (Bot. Reg., June.) 



CCXXI. Labiates § ~Nepete<z. Phlomis tuberosa L. is figured in Maund's 

 Botanic Garden for June, t. 360., where the following interesting specula- 

 tion is offered on the tubers of this vigorous-growing and comparatively 

 showy herbaceous perennial : — " The presence of these tubers does not 

 seem to be of primary importance to the existence of the plant, it being 

 furnished with an ample portion of fibrous roots from its crown, whence 

 offsets, and consequently increase, are afforded. Its fibres descend deeply, 



