structure of fruit, raise doubts as to the sufficiency of the 
character of Lyonia as more than a section. . 
An upright evergreen shrub, 2-3 feet high, covered 
pretty closely with leaves. Branches round, dark green, 
covered with a few appressed hairs. Leaves oblong, acute, 
coriaceous, crenate, very smooth, flat, nearly veinless, on a 
short pilose stalk. Racemes terminal, compound, many- 
flowered, thyrse-shaped. ^ Rachis rather hairy, rounded. 
Flowers drooping. Bractes subulate, coriaceous, longer 
than the pubescent. flower-stalks. Calyx jointed with the 
pedicle by means of a short 5-cornered base, on which the 
sepals, corolla, &c. are placed, of five sepals; the sepals 
ovate, fleshy, with a valvular estivation, a littie hairy at 
their back. Corolla monopetalous, hypogynous, ovate, 
white, 5-cornered, 5-toothed: the teeth very small, ovate, 
spreading. Stamens 10, inserted in the base of the corolla, 
twice shorter than the corolla. Filaments wedged, flat. An- 
thers oblong, opening by a double pore at the end, with two 
spurs at back. Ovary roundish, in a short green 5-cor- 
— discus. Style a little declinate. Stigma simple, pro- 
truded. 
