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EPACRIS VARIABILIS. 
(variable EPACRIS. ) 
CLASS. ORDER.. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
EPACRIDE^. 
Generic Character. — See Vol. I. page 52, 
Specific Character. — An evergreen greenhouse shrub from two to three feet high. Stem branched, 
smooth. Leaves ovate, sessile, tapering to the point. Corolla tabular, three or four times longer 
than the calyx. Flowers red, or blush. 
This delicate and handsome species of Epacris is a native of Van Diemen's 
Land, from whence it was introduced in 1829. 
In the greenhouse, about the months of February and March, it produces, in 
dense clusters, its charming pendulous blush flowers, which continue in perfection 
for a long time, and which, from the change in colour they assume during their 
gay existence, never fail to attract and interest every observer. 
Ample directions for culture, &c., will be found in Vol I. page 52, Vol. 11. 
pages 88, 120, and 144, and Vol. III. page 115. 
The drawing was made from a plant that flowered in the greenhouse at Chats- 
worth last spring. 
