266 DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES 



Metagonia.? acuminata, Vaccinium acuminatum. (H. B. and K. ibid.) 



Hab. In the mountains of New Grenada and Peru, in Alpine elevations. Flowers white, corolla 



four-cleft. 



Metagonia crenulata, Vaccinium crenulatum. (Dunal. in Dec and. 7. p. 570.) 



Hab. In Peru. 



Metagonia mar^ma^a, Vaccinium marginatum. (Dunal. ibid.) 



Hab. In Peru. 



Metagonia? villosa, Vaccinium villosum. Smith in Rees' Cycl. no. 29.* 



Hab. In Mexico (mutis.) Corolla purple, pentagonal, with the angles villous. 



Metagonia? Schlechtendalii, Vaccinium Schlechtendalii. G. Don. Gen. Syst. 

 3. p. 856. 



Hab. Mexico. Calyx bracteolate. Berry globose, umbonate. 



Obs. The Madagascar species may also, in all probability, be referred to 

 this group of species, with several others; but the whole must now be left to 

 the decision of future observers. 



Order ERICACE^. 

 Tribe ARBUTEtE. Decand. 



Arbutus Menziesii; not uncommon on the banks of the Oregon, below Fort 

 Vancouver, in rocky places, where it becomes a tree thirty to forty feet high. 

 The flowers abundant, yellowish-white; the berries orange yellow, dry and 

 coated with a thin layer of granular tubercular pulp. Very nearly allied 

 to A. Andrachne. 



ARCTOSTAPHYLOS. (Gal. Decand.) 



t Fruit even, berried. Leaves coriaceous, persistent, mostly entire. 

 Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. 



Hab. Around Vancouver, and the hills of the Oregon to the Pacific. 



Arctostaphylos *pumila; glaucous, dwarf and erect; somewhat closely 

 pubescent; leaves obovate, obtuse, entire, lucid above, below narrowed with 

 a petiole; flowers on short terminal bracteate racemes; pedicels obtusely bi- 

 bracteolate at base ; corolla bearded within ; awns of the anthers slenderly 

 hirsute, nearly twice their length, filaments sparingly bearded, twice the 

 length of the anthers; calyx ciliate. 



