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ARBUTUS PILOSA. Hairy ArBurtus. 
KERR ERE ERE EEE EEE RK 
Class and Order. 
Decanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Enrice. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. urceolata, limbo reflexo 5-dentato: 
Anthere dorso bi-aristate. Bacca 6-locularis, placentis 
laminas polyspermas sistentibus. Spr. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Argutus pilosa ; caule frutescente procumbente piloso, foliis 
ovato-ellipticis ciliato-serrulatis coriaceis apice muticis 
callosis, pedunculis axillaribus unifloris elongatis nu- 
tantibus, antheris quadri-aristatis. Graham. 
Arsurtus pilosa. Graham in Ed. New Phil. Journ. ined. 
Descr. Stem branching from the root, prostrate, red, 
tWigey, covered with thickset, harsh, spreading, rusty- 
coloured hairs. Leaves (nine lines long, four and a half 
broad) scattered, spreading, and being turned to the light, 
are distichous, coriaceous, naked and shining on both sides, 
dark green in front, pale behind, ovato-elliptical, with a 
callous tip, but no mucro, veined, serrulate, each serrature 
Seng tipped with a hair similar to those on the stem, a very 
few also occasionally exist on or near the middle-rib behind. 
Petioles short, subappressed, and with rather tumid, axillary 
buds. Peduncles sparingly covered with a few fulvous 
hairs, solitary in the axils of a few of the terminal leaves, 
of which they are equal to one-half the length. Bractee 
ovate, scattered upon the peduncle, adpressed, larger and 
ewer upwards. Calyx five-cleft, persisting, white, gla- 
ous within and without, spreading ; segments ovate, acute, 
gibbous at the base. Corolla (three lines long,) po 
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