( 1964 ) 
PACHYSANDRA PROCUMBENS. ‘TRAILING 
- Pacnysanpra. — : 
ee ee re ee 
Class and Order. Pre s 
_Monazcia TeTRANDRIA. 
Generie Character. 
Masc. Cal.4-phyllus. Cor.0, Stam. crassa, calyce triplo 
longiora. =~ 
Fam. Cal. 4-phyllus. Styli 3, persistentes. . Caps. tri- 
cornis, 3-locularis. Sem. 2. | oy 
_ Specific Name and Synonyms. 
Pacnysanpra procumbens. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 5. p. 260. 
Bot. Reg. 33. _ ie 
Pacuysanpra procumbens ; caule procumbente, foliis brevi- 
bus, ovalibus, superne crenato-dentatis, calycibus mi- 
nutim ciliatis, capsula puberula. Michaux Fil. Bor.- 
Amer. 2. p. 178. t.45. ‘Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. 1. p. 117. 
_ Persoon Syn. 2. p. 551. Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. p. 339. 
The Pacnysanpra was first described in Micnavx’s Flora 
of North-America, and received its name from the remarkable 
thickness of its stamens*. It has very little beauty to re- 
commend it to the flower-garden ; but the curious Botanist 
_ willregard it with some interest, as affording a rare instance 
of so great a similarity in the organs of fructification with so 
wide a difference in habit as exists between this plant and 
LS ener 
* Tlayys avn. 
