GAYLUSSACIA PSEUDO-VACCiNIUM: 
(Bilberry-like Gaylussac-wort.) 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
VACCINACE^, 
Generic Character. — Limb of Calyx five-cleft. 
Corolla tubular, ventricose at the base ; limb five- 
toothed. Stamens ten, inserted in the limb of the 
calyx, inclosed ; anthers mutic, drawn out from the 
top into two little tubes. Style erect. Stigma depres- 
sedly capitate. Drupe nearly globose, clothed by the 
calyx, ten-celled. Cells one-seeded. Seeds lenticular, 
smooth. — Don's Gardening and Botany. 
Specific Character. —Plant an evergreen shrub, 
downy or smooth. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, obso- 
letely serrated towards the top, with a few ciliae at the 
base of the younger leaves. Racemes axillary, erect, 
secund, bracteate, of a fine crimson colour. Corolla 
cylindrically urceolate, crimson. Calyx teeth roundish, 
acuminated. Ovarium glabrous. 
Synonymes. — Andromeda coccinea ; Vaccinium 
brasiliense. 
Under the above generic title, twenty-six species of Vaccinium — or Andromeda- 
like shrubs are enumerated by Steudel in his excellent 44 Nomenclator Botanicus," 
many of which, yet unintroduced, if we may judge from description would be 
valuable acquisitions to our collections of ornamental plants. " The genus," says 
Dr. Lindiey, " differs from Vaccinium in the same way as Arctostaphylos from 
Arbutus — it has but a single seed in each cell. The species are chiefly found in 
Brazil, where they are common, Peru, and the North of India." Thibaudia, 
another nearly-allied genus, is distinguished by its five-celled berry, each cell con- 
taining many seeds. 
G. pseudo-vaccinium is one of those hard -wooded greenhouse plants with fine 
glossy green foliage, which contribute so much to the maintenance of interest in 
plant-houses during winter. Between April and June, it produces copious quan- 
tities of somewhat globular bright crimson blossoms, disposed in racemes nestled 
amongst the leaves, but protruding beyond them, and all turned to one side. In 
its native localities, it forms a spreading shrub, varying in height from one to two 
feet and a half ; so that, in this country, we may at least expect it to reach from 
eighteen inches to two feet. A handsome specimen, which flowered with Messrs. 
Loddiges last year, and from which we were kindly permitted to make the annexed 
representation, was exhibited at the May meeting in the gardens of the Horti- 
cultural Society, at Chiswick. 
It is a native of Brazil within the tropics, where it grows in open sandy 
plains. It was discovered by Auguste de St. Hilaire, near the town of Caravellos, 
