of the ovarium, thickly covered with a viscous substance, and
little sessile glands. Calyx tube semiglobular, campanulate
or bell-shaped, terminated by 5 subulate teeth, which are
erect before the flower expands, afterwards divaricately
spreading. Petals 5, white, obovately spathulate, with a
loiigish flat unguis, spreading when first expanded, the
points afterwards reflexed. Stamens 5, inserted in the calyx :
Jilaments smooth, inserted in the back of the anthers : anthers
oblong, blunt at each end, two-celled. Style seated on the
ovarium, smooth. Stigma large, fleshy, peltate, capitate,
slightly 2-lobed, punctate, and viscous. Ovarium sharply
angular, viscous, and glandular.
For the fine specimen of this handsome evergreen shrub,
we are indebted to A. B. Lambert, Fsq. in whose garden at
Boy ton it flowered in November la s t: it is a native of Chile,
and in Mr. Lambert’s Herbarium are fine specimens of it,
received from Mr. Caldcleugh, who gathered them in Chile.
Mr. Lambert informs us that the shrub has attained the
height of five or six feet, by the side of a sheltered wall in
his garden : it forms a handsome upright bushy shrub, and
produces its flowers in Autumn, when little else is in flower.
We have no doubt but F. glandulosa of Loddiges’ Botanical
Cabinet, is the same plant, though there is a considerable
difference in the two figures : but as Mr. Lambert received
it from Mr. G. Wheeler’s Nursery under that name, and
Mr. Wheeler having procured it from Messrs. Loddiges,
there can remain no doubt about i t : though the figure in the
Botanical Cabinet represents the plant quite smooth, and
the teeth of the calyx considerably too broad and blunt,
which in ours is subulate and acute.
The present species succeeds well in a light rich soil,
if planted in the border ; and it should be protected with a
mat or some other slight covering in severe frost: if grown
m a pot, a mixture of two-thirds sandy loam, and one-third
peat, will suit it w e ll: cuttings nearly ripened will root free-
ly in pots of sand, under a hand-glass.
The generic name is derived from Escallon, a Spaniard,
an American Traveller.
r Galyx, seated on the angular Ovarium, with the 2 bractes on the pedicle. 2. The
S Petals seated on the base of the Calyx. 3. The 5 Stamens, seated on the base of the
caiyx. 4. th e angular Ovarium, terminated by the Style, and slightly 2-lobed Stigma.