18 PYROLA UMBELLATA. 
the Bicornes of Linneus and the Erice of Jus- 
sieu. Eaiiea/ Sins 
_ The generic character is as follows. Calya 
mostly five parted ; petals five ; anthers inverted, 
opening by two tubular pores ; capsule five celled, 
fice valved. 
The species umbellata has its leaves wedge 
shaped and toothed, flowers. somewhat wmbelled, 
calyx five toothed, and style immersed. 
Its more minute description is as follows : 
Root woody, creeping, sending up stems at 
various distances. The stems are ascending, 
somewhat angular, and marked with the scars of 
the former leaves The leayes grow in irregular 
whorls, of which there are from one to four, ‘They 
are evergreen, coriaceous, on yery short petioles, 
wedge shaped, subacute, serrate, smooth, shin- 
ing, the lower surface. somewhat. paler.. The 
flowers grow in a small corymb, on nodding pe- 
duncles, which are furnished with linear bractes 
about their middle. | Calyx of five roundish suba- 
cute teeth or segments, much shorter than the 
corolla, Petals five, roundish, concave, spreading, 
cream coloured, with a tinge of purple at base, 
Stamens ten, Filaments sigmoid, the lower half 
fleshy, triangular, dilated, and slightly pubescent 
at the edges ; the upper half filiform. . Anthers” 
