268 DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES 



Xerobotrys, argutus. Arctostaphylos tomentosa (3? arguta, Decand. ib. 

 Certainly not our species, which is very rarely even minutely serrulate. 



Xerobotrys? cordifolius. Arctostaphylos cordifolia. Lindl. Decand. Prod. 

 7. p. 586. 



Xerobotrys? glaucus. Arctostaphylos glauca. Ibid. Decand. Ib. 



Xerobotrys * venulosiis; erect; branchlets, petioles and margins of the leaves 

 pubescent; leaves elliptic, or elliptic-ovate, acute, sometimes subserrulate, 

 rather long petiolate, thick, smooth and shining; racemes terminal, corym- 

 bose; bractes scale-like, very short; calyx ciliate; corolla bearded within; 

 filaments pilose; awns of the anthers very long; the berry globose and 

 smooth. Andromeda? venulosa. Decand. Prod. 7. p. 607. 



Hab. Round Monterey, Upper California. A shrub about a foot high, at length wholly smooth. 

 Branches brown and smooth, those of the young shoots, hoary and villous, clad with the persisting 

 brown bud scales. Leaves about an inch long, half to three quarters of an inch wide, thick and 

 mostly acute at base, green on both sides, even and reticulated, so that both surfaces appear similar. 

 Flowers v/hite, in short crowded fastigiate racemes. Bractes almost imbricated, ovate, acute, 

 pubescent, not half as long as the short peduncles, which are bibracteolate at base. Berries smooth, 

 depressed-spherical, of a similar form and structure with those of X. tomentosus, corolla short and 

 ovate. 



Tribe ANDROMEDEtE. (Ital.)? 

 Gaultheria Shallon. 



Hab. In shady woods, Oregon, very common. About two feet high, and filling up extensive 



tracts. The berries black, and somewhat agreeable. 



*PORTUNA. (Andromeda, PuRSH.) 

 Leucothoe, but with the anthers bifid, biporous, and dorsally awned at the 

 base, the filaments smooth. Capsule globose. Seeds six to ten in a cell, ob- 

 long, flat and alated or membranaceous, imbricated longitudinally, with a ter- 

 minal hylum. — An evergreen shrub of the Southern States, with coriaceous, 

 eUiptic, ciliate serrulate leaves, and terminal panicles of white flowers, the 

 corolla ovate-cylindric. (The name alludes to its proximate relation to 

 Leucothoe. ) 



VoRTvyiAjIoribunda. Andromeda Jiorihunda. Pursh. Flor. Bor. Am. 1. p. 

 488. Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 1566. Bot. Reg. 807. Leucothoe floribunda, D. 

 and G. Don. Zenohia florilpunda, Decand. 7. p. 598. Capsule as large as a 

 pepper corn. The five lobes of the placenta, at the summit of the capsule. 

 Seeds longitudinally arranged, unusually large. 



