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with 
Shrubs /falterne > entire deciduous leaves crowied toward the tips of 
the branches. Flowers in 1-3-flowered umbels borne on second year wood 
just below the leaf-cluster. Sepals 6. Corolla shallow, campanulate, 
slightly unsymmetrical, 5S-lobed, white. Stamens 10, included, the filaments 
hairy at the base. Ovary 5-chambered, forming a septicidal capsule. 
1. Re albiflorum Hook. A shrub 1-2 m. tall, the branches ascending 
or decumbent at the base, stiffish, the lateral branches short, bark brown, 
finely furrowed, the new bark brown, shining ,bearing reddish hairs the first 
season; leaves 5-8 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide, appearing as though whorled 
at_the tips of the branches, oblanceolate or elliptical, obtuse or acutish 
at both ends, the margins entire, both surfaces hirsute with reddish hairs 
in youth, becoming glabrous, the upper surface ¢los when living, the lower 
pale; flowers rather showy, the pedicels 8-10 mn. long, rusty-hirsute; she : 
sepals elliptical-oblong, rusty-hirsute, the margins glandular; corolla white, 
18-20 mm. in diameter; capsule 7-7.5 mm. long, enclosed within the erect 
sepals. , 
sleds ania A bins canlnicaees A 
Frequent in the northern part of our range forming brush with Menziesia 1 
glabella in subalpine burns and moist slopes, usually above 5000 ft. @ the Capo.’ 
glossy, more acute leaf and rmugose appearance distinguish this species from 
Menziesia glabella; poisamous to sheep. 
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