194 EPACRIS. 
Epacris delicata, Delicate-flowered Epacris* — Plant a branching shrub, three 
feet high. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Floivers pendulous, very large for 
the size of leaf. Corolla tube four times the length of the calyx, white, slightly 
tinted with pale rose colour; limb divided into five pure white ovate-acuminate 
segments. Stamens situate round the mouth of the tube. 
Perhaps for delicate beauty and size of flowers, this variety is almost unequalled 
amongst Epacrises ; its growth too is free and graceful, and the produce of flowers 
profuse. 
The management of these plants is precisely the same as that of Cape Heaths, 
that is, they require the temperature of an airy greenhouse, a sandy heath mould 
moderately broken, perfect drainage, a good supply of water, and care that neither 
drought nor burning sunshine injures their tender roots. 
Increase is effected by cuttings put in early in the spring ; they should be 
planted in pots of sand, and be covered with a glass, treating them in every respect 
like those of Erica. 
The generic name Epacris applies to the natural habit of the species to grow on 
the top of hills ; hence the derivation, from epi, upon, and akros, the uppermost. 
