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EPACRIS COCCI'nEUS. 
(SCARLET-FLOWEUEIJ EPACRIS.) 
CLASS, ORDER. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
EPACRIDACE^. 
Generic Character. — Vide vol. i. p. 52. 
Specific Character. — Plant a shrub, usually growing from eighteen inches to two feet high. Stem 
roundish, erect, branching. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, pungent, sessile, tiiickly-set, somewhat 
recurved. Corolla shortly campanulate, expanding into five short, broad, acute segments ; deep 
scarlet. Stamens situated round the mouth of the corolla. Anthers yellow, distinctly visible. 
To a genus like Epacris, the species of which are so highly valued, both for 
their graceful beauty and the early period at which they flower, the addition of 
any novelty, from whatever source, must be considered as a boon by all the lovers 
of exotic floriculture. No striking deviation in form or habit from the species and 
varieties at present known would, we conceive, be so acceptable as a species with 
blossoms of a more brilliant and showy colour, and a correct drawing of such a 
plant we have now to introduce to our readers. 
The subject of this figure has been before noticed by us as a seedling raised in 
the garden of Alderman Copeland, Leyton, Essex, under the management of 
Mr. Kynoch. It flowered in the collection of that gentleman in the early part of 
the present year, and was then purchased by Messrs. Low and Co., of Clapton, in 
whose establishment we were favoured, towards the conclusion of last February, 
with an opportunity of obtaining the annexed plate. 
Since that time, a variety of E. impressa has been figured in the Botanical 
Register, with the remarks accompanying which. Dr. Lindley furnishes an extract 
from a communication of Mr, Gunn, a respectable traveller and botanist in New 
Holland, the purport of which is, that seedling Epacrises vary so considerably in 
colour in their native districts, that it is impossible to establish specific distinctions, 
or even varieties, upon the hue of the flowers alone. Were we to act in accordance 
with this statement, we should be constrained to consider our plant a mere casual 
