266 _ ppeixpnsn. oNoGENKA. 
pat. *LYONIA}, (Species of ANDROMEDA. Willd. ) 
“3 We 5- toothed. Corolla subglobose, pubes- 
~ cent. Capsule 5 -celled, valves 5, septiferous in 
_ the middle; having their margins closed by 5 
— other external narrow valvens Seeds Numerous, | 
subulate, longitudinally imbricated. 
~ leaves; flowers small, colleeted into interrupied naked 
ani s or lateral and axillary fasciculi; peduncles ex- 
-serted, destitute of bractes.—(Corolla covered with more 
or lene: of the pubescence of the leaves; anthers awnless, 
_ filaments each with an oval dilation at the base; style cy- 
__ Tindric, stigma indistinct; capstle subglobose or ovoid, 
; pentangular; dissepiments indivisible; the 5 lobes of the 
receptacular axis connate, situated at the summit of the 
capsule; seeds slender, caudate.) 
Leaves sempervirent. ; 
Species. 1. L. ferruginea. Ows. Under side of the 
Yeaves and nearly all the rest of the plant, not excepting 
the flowers, invested with brown umbilicate furfuraceous 
écales; leaves obovate and flat, reticulated, but scarcely 
Sos on the se te pedicells aggregated in 3s and 53 
3-4 of an inch long; flowers very small, globuiar- 
: ‘ovate; capsule cylindric-ovoid, furnished with very con- 
wt accessary valvule, which are deciduous, about 
it.—I have not been able to find these 
other of the 4ndromedas exceptthe 
in ‘im the genus here ‘proposed. 
a.Pu. Diflers from the preceding in being 
, With the leaves more oblong, convex and re-~ 
a in, having the veins on the upper side, 
in sartieular Wace or hidden, and the flowers globose. 
Manx also oe that it flowers sta diGerent time. _ 
- Shrubs with deciduous or sempervirent and alternate 
dth of the proper valves, and ‘a little unci- 
