EPACRIS AUTUMNALE. 
(AutTimnal Epacris.) 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
EPACRIDACEJ3. 
Generic Character.— Ca^J/o? scaled, or the parts of 
it laid over each other like the tiles of a house. Corolla 
a tuhe. Stamens inserted in the throat of the tuhe. 
Capsule five-celled. 
Specific Character. — Plant a branching evergreen 
shrub, growing three or four feet high. Leaves ovate, 
with a mucronate termination, smooth, sessile. 
Flowers on short peduncles. Corolla with a deep crim- 
son tube many times longer than the calyx, and paler, 
slightly spreading segments. 
Synonymes.— Cxtnningliami. E. refulgens. 
All the Epacris family are more or less useful and ornamental greenhouse 
plants. Their compact habit, elegance of growth, the gaiety produced by their 
numerous blossoms usually depending in long lines from the under-sides of the 
branches, and the extended duration of the flowers, are all characters which 
the cultivator must necessarily esteem. To these we may add that for the most 
part they are in the full tide of their beauty in the gloomy months of February 
and March. 
The plant here depicted is inferior in interest to few of the charming species 
and varieties with which we are acquainted. Its habit is that of a vigorous- 
growing shrub, combining with strength of stem all the elegance peculiar to the 
tribe, and producing richly-coloured flowers about an inch long. Unlike most of 
its kindred, it commences blooming towards the end of October or beginning of 
November, and continues to flower through the winter till April. This feature, 
which is not the least interesting or useful, has suggested the specific name. 
We are indebted for the opportunity of procuring our drawing to the kindness 
of Mr. Low of Clapton, in whose Nursery our Artist prepared it in November 
last. Mr. Low obtained it from Mr. Cunningham of Edinburgh. 
It is evidently of hybrid extraction. Although we are unable to state the 
exact source of the plant from which our delineation was executed, yet we have 
seen others so similar in character at the Nursery of Messrs. RoUisson, Tooting, 
raised by Mr. Storey of Isle worth, between E, impressa and E. ^randiflora, that 
we can have little doubt of their common origin. 
