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“A shrub rese embling Azalea, w h purple flowers; youn- ©- 
~ ger leaves revolute; flowers faciculated, terminal. 
Species. KR. oa The anes the ge- 
nus. ac “io 
7" #885, EPIGMA. L.(T railing- Arbutus.) 
Calix large, 5:parted, tribracteate at the base. 
Corolla salverform, border 5-parted, spreading; 
“tube internally villous. Capsule 5-celled; Re- 
ceplacle 5-parted. 
Herbaceous subcespitose evergreens; leaves alternate; 
owers in eke axillary and terminal racemes. 
+ Sprcins. | EB. repens. eHlowers fragrant, Anant ear 
ly in the spring-—The mountains -of the West India isl- 
ands afford a second:species of this gente os 
$86. * PTEROSPORA.} 
Calix 5-parted. Carolla monopetalous, ovate, 
margin 5-toothed rellected. Juthérs excentri- 
cally peltate, 2-celled, adnate. to- the filaments 
. by the margin; bisetose. Capsule 5-celleds im- 
perfectly 5-valved; dissepiments medial septa — 
and valves united towards the base and Goales- 
ee with the receptacular axis; Receptacle 5- 
* fobed, Seeds very numerous and minyti each 
~ furnished with a terminal wing. ciate | 
A ent annual, destitutao of vbichies Wilting. re 
bit of Monomrepa'tg which itis allied. Suen a ie 
! ther radseal nor cauline; stem sir . 
heros oouered preddi shy ‘resembling those of Andeo- 
, peduncles rather longs Iflowered, cernanus, ke 
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be ARdot . wis Every part of the: 
