soms in the month of May. In the native specimens, the 
blossoms and berries seem to be quite as numerous as the 
leaves. On one specimen, scarcely more than two inches 
high, but much spreading, I have counted upwards of thirty 
flowers. 
Descr. The main stem of this plant creeps under ground, 
and in its native country, sometimes to the length of several » 
inches, from its upper extremity sending up several short, 
tufted branches, from two to four inches high, woody and 
greenish brown, rounded. Leaves copious, alternate, obo- 
vate, attenuated below, distinctly serrated, glabrous, some- 
what shining, much and conspicuously reticulated, espe- 
cially beneath, where the colour is paler, but not glaucous. 
From the axils of the leaves the peduncles spring, solitary, 
or rarely two together, drooping, short, single-flowered, 
-accompanied by oue or two concave, membranous, decid- 
uous bracteas at the base. Calyx obscurely five-lobed. 
Corolla urceolate, very delicate, white, with a tinge of deep 
blush, the mouth contracted, and having five, recurved, 
blunt, teeth. Stamens ten: Anthers with the cells much 
prolonged upwards, and bearing two long, slender awns at 
the back. Berry globose, glaucous, blue-black. 
Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. 3. Flowers. 4, Stamen. 5. Pistil and Calyx. 6. 
Fruit (nat. size) ; all but fig. 6 magnified. 
