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GENUS VI.— M ENZIESIA. Smith. 



Calyx free from the ovary, 4- or 5-cleft or -partite. Corolla 

 hypogynous, deciduous, monopetalous, globose- or ovoid-urceolate, 

 with as many erect or rcflexed teeth as there are segments of 

 the calyx. Stamens twice as many as the calyx-segments, i. e. 8 

 or 10 ; filaments subulate ; anthers with 2 horns, or obtuse at the 

 apex, generally without awns, but sometimes these are present. 

 Fruit a capsule, with 4 or 5 cells opening septicidally by 4 or 5 

 valves breaking away from the central placental column, the valves 

 separating at the dissepiments. Seeds very numerous. 



Heathlike shrubs or undershrubs, with alternate leaves, and 

 blue, pink, or crimson flowers in terminal racemes. 



This genus of plants was named in honour of Archibald Menzies, F.L.S., surgeon 

 and naturalist to the expedition under Vancouver, in which he collected many speci- 

 mens of plants on the north-west coast of America, New Holland, Van Diemen's 

 Land, Arc. 



Sub-Genus I.— DABOECIA. Don. 



Calyx deeply 4-cleft. Corolla-limb 4-toothed. Stamens 8 ; 

 filaments flattened, shorter than the anthers ; anthers elongated, 

 sagittate at the base ; cells obliquely truncate, and separated at 

 the apex. Stigma truncate, indistinctly 4-lobed. Capsule 4-celled, 

 4-valved. 



SPECIES I.— MENZIESIA POLIPOLIA. Juss. 



Plate DCCCLXXXV. 



Daboecia polifolia, Bon. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 217. D. C. Prod. Vol. VII. 



p. 713. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 434. 

 Erica Daboecii, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 509. 

 E. Dabeoci, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 35. 

 Andromeda Daboecia, Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. xiii. p. 338. 



Leaves evergreen, ovate-oval or -elliptical, apiculate, with revo- 

 lute entire margins, dark-green and sparingly clothed with gland- 

 tipped hairs above, densely felted with pure-white wool beneath, 

 where the midrib is prominent and glabrous in the basal half. 

 Flowers in terminal lax racemes. Pedicels shorter than the 

 corolla, with strapshaped herbaceous bracts at the base. Calyx 

 deeply 4-cleft. Corolla 4-toothed. Stamens 8 ; anthers sagittate 



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