Leaves rather crowded, one-half to three-quarters of an inch 
long, spreading and reflexed, oblong-ovate or -lanceolate or 
ovate, acute, very thickly coriaceous with cartilaginous sub- 
serrate margins, convex when dry, with recurved margins, 
not punctate beneath; petiole very short and midrib above 
towards the base usually puberulous, nerves very obscure. 
Flowers in very short drooping racemes, crowded, shortly 
pedicelled ; pedicels with two small opposite concave ovate 
bracteoles. Calyx-tube short; lobes broadly ovate, obtuse 
acute or acuminate. Corolla one-third of an inch long, rose- 
pink ; tube cylindric-oblong or -urceolate, terete, quite gla- 
brous, not ribbed; teeth five, small, recurved. Stamens wholly 
included, filaments slender as long as the anthers, hirsute 
with long hairs; anther-tubes as long as the cells, which 
latter are very membranous and dehisce along the margins 
exposing the pollen. Fruit like that of the V. Myrtillus, 
acid.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, flower; 3 and 4, stamens; 5, ovary; 6, transverse section of 
ditto :—all enlarged, 
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