catum refers to the colour of the calyx. The drawing was 
_ made at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. at Fulham, 
where the plant is cultivated in the open ground in bog- 
earth. It flowers in May and June. 
A flexuosely branching deciduous shrub, seldom ex- 
ceeding 2 or 3 feet in height. Leaves oblong, elliptical, 
sublanceolate, pointed, very finely serrate, about an inch 
- and half long, about the half of one broad or more, slightly 
villous underneath along the veins. Racemes compound, in 
oblong flexuose subleafless panicles; partial ones several- 
flowered, lateral and terminal, alternate, contracted to 
nearly a corymbose form; peduncle straight, stiff, not much 
longer than the pedicles, generally with a scale or two of 
the floral bud remaining at. the base; pedicles reddish, shin-— 
ing, deflected, nearly of the length of the corolla, furnished 
above the base with red membranous lanceolate downy- 
edged caducous bractes. Flowers white and red, smelling 
like honey. Calyx continuous with the germen, short, 
oblately campanulate, 5-cleft, lobules pointedly ovate, 
slightly ciliate, recurved at the tip. Corolla ovately cylin- 
drical, the diameter three times less than the length or 
_more, plaitedly angular at the upper part, mouth narrow, 
5-cleft, segments minute, somewhat pointed, slightly vil- 
lous at the edge. Stamens 10, a third shorter than the 
corolla, upright: filaments cylindrically contiguous, white, 
flat, linear, furred, the length of the anthers: anthers of 
the colour of rust, without any appendage at the base, 
headed by two awns longer than the cells. Style green, 
round, straight, nearly protruded from the mouth of the 
corolla; stigma capitate, papulous. 
_ The principal distinctions between Vaccinium (which 
varies with 8 and J0 stamens) and AnprRomepa, are the 
berry of the first, and the capsule of the latter. 
