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EPACRIS IMPRESSA. 
(impressed fpacris.) 
CLASS. OHDEft. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
EPACRIDE^. 
Generic Character. — See Vol. 1, p. 52. 
Specific Character. — A shrub, from tliree to five feet high. Branches downy. Leaves ovate-lanceo- 
late, ending in a sharp point. Flowers pendulous, rather large for the size of the leaf. Corolla 
tube three times the length of the Calyx, beautiful rose colour, the limb divided into five acute 
segments. 
This plant is a native of Van Diemen's Land, and the south coast of New 
Holland, from whence it was introduced, in 1825, by Messrs. Mackey, nurserymen, 
of Clapton, Mr. Baxter, their collector, having furnished them with seeds of it. 
The usual time of flowering is in the beginning of March, and it continues to 
ornament the green-house for several months. Our drawing was made in March 
from a beautiful plant. 
It requires the shelter of the green-house, and precisely the same kind of treat- 
ment as that recommended for the E. grafidiflora. Vol. 1, p. 52 ; and is propagated 
by half ripened cuttings, planted in sand, and covered with a bell-glass. 
VOL. II —NO, V. 
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