PARTRIDGE BERRY. 29: 
The species procumbens has a prostrate stem 
with ascending branches. Leaves im a terminal 
tuft, obovate with a few ciliate serratures. Flowers 
axillary. 
Class Decandria, order Monogynia, Natural 
orders Bicornes Linn. Erica: Juss.) fa) vacac Beay, 
The stem, or as it might be called root of this 
plant is horizontal, woody, often a quarter of an 
inch in thickness. The branches are ascending, 
but a few inches high, round and somewhat 
downy. Leaves scattered, near the extremities of 
the branches, evergreen, coriaceous, shining, oval 
or obovate, acute at both ends, revolute at the 
— edge, and furnished with a few small serratures, 
each terminating in a bristle. Flowers axillary, 
drooping, on round downy stalks. Outer calyx of 
two concave, heart shaped leafets, which may with 
perhaps more propriety be called bractes. Inner 
calyx monophyllous, white, cleft into five roundish 
subacute segments. Corolla white, urceolate, five 
angled, contracted at the mouth, the border divid- 
ed-into five short, reflexed segments, Filaments 
white, hairy, bent in a semicircular manner to ac- 
commodate themselves to the cavity between the 
corolla and germ. Anthers oblong, orange col- 
oured, ending in two double horns, bursting out- 
wardly, for their whole length above the filaments, 
