. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . ary, seldom opposite, upright,equal to the leaves or longer, round or slightly compressed,recurved after the flower has faded. Cali/x slightly coloured,5-pai1:ed, upright, persistent, segtnents wideset, acute, mi-nutely eiliate, toothed on each side the base by a smallirlandi Corolla like that of the conofeners, about an inchand half across, vandng from a deep \iolet purple to white,deepishly five-furrowed at the naiTow part of the tube, fauxclosed by a white pubescence. FJlaynenfs hirsute wherethey join to the corolla, prominent on
. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . ary, seldom opposite, upright,equal to the leaves or longer, round or slightly compressed,recurved after the flower has faded. Cali/x slightly coloured,5-pai1:ed, upright, persistent, segtnents wideset, acute, mi-nutely eiliate, toothed on each side the base by a smallirlandi Corolla like that of the conofeners, about an inchand half across, vandng from a deep \iolet purple to white,deepishly five-furrowed at the naiTow part of the tube, fauxclosed by a white pubescence. FJlaynenfs hirsute wherethey join to the corolla, prominent on one side, smooth,white, dilated towards the anthers. Anthers yellow hirsutelyfuiTcd at the top without, having a membranous laminaon each side their middle. Germens 2, ovate, interceptedon each side by a yellow green melliferous gland. Sfi/leswhite. Stigmas white-woolled. Follicles 2, sometimesnaiTowed in the middle, subangidar, narrower towards thetop, one of them often miscarrying. Seeds oblong, convexOn one side, ^ith a longitudinal ca^^ty on the 302 VACCIXIUM TVhortie-berry. OCTANDRIA (DECANDRIA. Pursh.) MOXOGYXL^. Nat. ord. :. Jussieii gen. 159. Div. II. Germcn inferum autseminiferum. Erice-E. Brovon frod. 55*7VACCINIUM. Cal. superus 4-(5-) dentatus aut integer. Cor. cam-panulata 4-(5-) fida laciniis reflexis (^-partita omnind reflexa in Oxycocco),Stam. non epipetala, quandoque exserta; anth. bicornes Sc dorso , inferum. Bacca parva, infera, globosa, umbilicata, 4-loc., oligo-sperma. Frutices, squamis gemmarum scepe joersistentibus in ramidoram basi ;fol. alternn, in quibusdam sdmpervirentia ; Jlores pedicellati, solitarii, axil*lares, v. plurimi terminates bracteati, interdum 5Jidi, lO-andri. Juss. 1. c162. annotinis seu , foliis oblongis acutis serrulatis glabris, racemis aggregatis ter- minalibus corymbosis bracteatis, pedicellis longis nutantibus, corollis cylindraceis, laciniis erecti
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