564 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
elongated, tubular, biaristate at the apex. Stigma truncate. Capsule 
with a loculicidal dehiscence. Placenta 5-lobed: lobes cuncated, thick, a 
little arched. Seeds angular. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous; scattered, dilated, with 
the margins usually toothed. Flowers racemose, Pedicels solitary or 
aggregate. —Undershrubs, deciduous; natives of North America. 
a 1. Z,specro’sa D. Don. The showy-flowered Zenobia. 
Tdentification. D. Don in Edinb. New Phil, Journ., July, 1834; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 830. 
Synonyme. Andrémeda specidsa Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 256. 
Engravings. Bot. Cab., t. 551.3; and our fig. 1049. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves oval, obtuse, mucronate, crenate, or serrate, veiny. 
Flowers white, drooping, disposed in racemes. 
Branches in the flower-bearing part naked of leaves. 
(Don’s Mill.) A low deciduous shrub. North 
Carolina, in swamps. Height 2 ft. to 3 ft. Introduced 
in 1800. Flowers large, white; June. 
ad + ~ 
1049. Z. specidsa. 1050. Z, s. nitida. 1051. Z.s, pulverulénta. 
Variches, 
a Z, 5.2 nitida. A. s. nitida Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. i. p. 294.3; A. 
cassinefolia Vent. Malm. 79.; and our fig. 1050. — Leaves oblone- 
ovate, serrate, green on both surfaces. Flowers white, : 
= @ Z.s. 3 pulverulénta, A. speciosa pulverulénta Pursh 1. c. ; A. pul- 
verulénta Bartram Itin. 476. ; A. cassinefolia B Vent. Hort. Cels. 60.5 
A. speciosa var. y glatca Wats. Dend. Brit. t.26.; A. dealbita 
Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1010.; A. ovata Soland MS. in Herb. Banks. ; 
and our jig. 1051. — Leaves roundish-ovate, distantly crenate, co- 
vered with white powder, as are the branches. Flowers white. 
Genus VIII. 
lallalle 
LYONJA Nutt. Tue Lvonta. Lin. Syst. Decdndria Monogynia. 
Identification. Nutt.Gen. Amer., ]. p. 268.; Ed. Phil. Journ. 3 ’s Mi 
fynonyme, andromeda sp. Lin. and various authors. np ents Bowls Ble bake 
erivation. In commemoration of John Lyon, an indefatigable collector of North Ameri 1 
who fell a victim to a dangerous epidemic amidst th i nina Peat 
had so often been the theatre of his labours, Dee BSE EES SENS SEES aan 
Gen. Char, Calyx 5-parted. Corolla ovate or tubular, with a 5-toothed con- 
tracted mouth. Stamens enclosed ; filaments flattened, dilated, very short, 
downy; cells of anthers membranous, dehiscing lengthwise, altogether 
mutic. Style robust, pentagonal, fusiform, thickened at bottom. Stigma 
simple, truncate. Capsule pentagonal, 5-celled, with a loculicidal dehis- 
