GAYLUSSACIA PSEUDO- VACCINIUM. 
(Bilberry-like Gayliissac-wort.) 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Gknbric Character. •— Limb of Cali/x five-cleft. 
>roUa tubular, ventricose at the base ; limb five- 
othed. Stamens ten, inserted in the limb of the 
lyx, inclosed ; anthers mutic, drawn out from the 
p into two little tubes. Style erect. Stigma depres- 
dly capitate. Drupe nearly globose, clothed by the 
lyx, ten-celled. Cells one-seeded. Seeds lenticular, 
looth.— Gardening and Botany. 
Specific Character. —P tani an evergreen shrub, 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
downy or smooth. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, obso- 
letely serrated towards the top, with a few ciliae at the 
base of the younger leaves. Racemes axillary, erect, 
secund, hracteate, of a fine crimson colour. Corolla. 
cylindrically urceolate, crimson. Calyx teeth roundish, 
acuminated. Ovarium glabrous. 
Synonymes. — Andromeda coccinea ; Vaccinium 
brasiliense. 
Naiural Order. 
VACCINACE^. 
Under the above generic title, twenty-six species of Vaccinium — or Andromeda-' 
ke shrubs are enumerated by Steudel in his excellent Nomenclator Botanicus,” 
any of which, yet unintroduced, if we may judge from description would be 
iluable acquisitions to our collections of ornamental plants. “ The genus,” says 
'r. Bindley, “ differs from Vaccinium in the same way as Arctostaphylos from 
'rhutus — it has but a single seed in each cell. The species are chiefly found in 
razil, where they are common, Peru, and the North of India.” Thibaudia^ 
lother nearly-allied genus, is distinguished by its five-celled berry, each cell con- 
ining many seeds. 
G. pseudo-vaccinium is one of those hard-wooded greenhouse plants with fine 
^'ossy green foliage, which contribute so much to the maintenance of interest in 
ant-houses during winter. Between April and June, it produces copious quaii- 
Dies of somewhat globular bright crimson blossoms, disposed in racemes nestled 
Qongst the leaves, but protruding beyond them, and all turned to one side. In 
3 native localities, it forms a spreading shrub, varying in height from one to two 
et and a half ; so that, in this country, we may at least expect it to reach from 
|!ghteen inches to two feet. A handsome specimen, which flowered with Messrs. 
Dddiges last year, and from which we were kindly permitted to make the annexed 
jpresentation, was exhibited at the May meeting in the gardens of the Horti- 
Itural Society, at Chiswick. 
It is a native of Brazil within the tropics, where it grows in open sandy 
ains. It was discovered by Auguste de St. Hilaire, near the town of Caravellos, 
