AND GENERA OF PLANTS. 265 



Hab. Common on the banks of the Oregon, near the sea. An evergreen, elegant shrub, three to 

 five feet high, and erect. Also in Upper California near Santa Barbara, but with the stems more 

 hirsute. Fruit dry and scarcely edible. 



Metagonia myrtifolia, Vaccinium myrtifoUum. Mich. Flor. Bor. Am. 1. p. 

 229. V. crassifolium, Andrews. 



Hab. North Carolina to Florida. Flowers small, subcampanulate, pentangular, in contracted 

 bracteolate racemes. Berries rather dry and insipid. 



Metagonia terniflora, Vaccinium terniflorum, Dunal. in Decand. 7. p. 575. 



Hab. In Peru, (Pavon.) Calyx four-parted. 



Metagonia didymantha, Vaccinium didymanthum, Dunal. in Decand. ibid. 



Hab. In Peru. Calyx five-parted. 



Metagonia? alaternoides, Vaccifiium alaternoides. (Humb. p. and Kunth. 

 nov. gen. 3. p. 265.) 

 Hab. In the Andes of Peru. 



Metagonia Penceoides, Vaccinium penceoides. (H. B. and Kunth. 3. p. 264.) 



Hab. On the mountain Tanguragua, in Quito. Corolla tubular-campanulate, quadrifid. 



Metagonia *prostrata; Stem prostrate, pubescent; leaves crowded, oblong- 

 lanceolate, at either end acute, serrulate, beneath strongly nerved, subciliate; 

 petioles pubescent, minute; peduncles short, thick and axillary, one to three- 

 flowered; calyx bibracteolate; corolla conic-ovoid, pentangular, five-cleft; 

 berry pyriform. 



Hab. In Peru, between Cuenca and Loxa. (Dr. Jamison.) A prostrate shrub; stems eight to 

 twelve inches long, terete. Leaves very numerous, secund, thick, small and coriaceous, near half 

 an inch long and about two lines wide, serrulations distant and shallow, the lower portion of the 

 leaf subciliate on the margin. Peduncles short and approximate, thick and very smooth, clad 

 with several pairs of bractes, indicating so many abortive flowers. Germ and berry pyriform, 

 smooth, wrinkled and fleshy: segments of the calyx triangular, acute, conspicuously crowning 

 the berry. Corolla conic, pentagonal, about the length of the germ, the border connivent and 

 five-cleft. Every part of the inflorescence, apparently scarlet. Style included; the stigma mi- 

 nutely five-lobed, subcapitate. Filaments pubescent, anthers awnless, short, with terminal and not 

 oblique pores. Berry five-celled, insipid, the cells each containing many more seeds than in the 

 true Vacciniums, the seeds brown, puncticulate, angular and somewhat cuboid, closely allied ap- 

 parently to G. penseoides. The general colour of the plant, when growing, is purple. 



Metagonia empetrifolia, Vaccinium empetrifolium. (H. B. and Kunth. nov. 

 gen. et spec. 3. p. 263. t. 248.) 



Hab. In Peru on the mountain Antigoma. Corolla tubular-campanulate, four-cleft, scarlet. 



