570 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM ,BRITANNICUM. 
Spec. Char., &c. Glabrous, except that the branchlets are beset with short 
white hairs. Leaves elliptical-lanceolate, acute, ovate, or taper at the base, 
serrated. Flowers white, disposed unilaterally in long lateral and terminal 
racemes. (Don’s Mill.) An erect evergreen shrub. Canada to Florida. 
Height 2 ft. Introduced in? 1812. Flowers white; June. 
Genus X. 
PI'ERIS D. Don. Tue Pieris. Lin. Syst. Decandria Monogynia. 
Identification. TD. Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ., 17, p. 159. ; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 832. 
Synonyme. Andrémeda sp. Waliich. ay) 
Derivation. Pieris, a general appellation of the Muses, who were called Pierides, from their birth- 
place, Pieria, in Thessaly. 
Gen. Char. Calyx deeply 5-parted. Corolla tubular or ovate, with a con- 
tracted, 5-toothed, revolute border. Stamens enclosed ; filaments dilated, 
bisetose at top; cells of anthers short, incumbent, dehiscing lengthwise. 
Style robust, pentagonal. Stigma truncate. Capsule with a loculicidal de- 
hiscence. Seeds scobiform. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, evergreen ; coriaceous. Flowers droop- 
ing, terminal, racemose.— Shrub or low tree, evergreen, native of Nepal. 
2 1. P. ovatiFo'Lia D. Don, The oval-leaved Pieris. 
Identification. Ed. Phil. Journ., 17. p. 159.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 832 
Synonymes. Andrémeda ovalifdlia Asiat. Res. 13. p.391.; A. capricida 
Hamilton MSS. 
Engravings. Asiat. Res., 13. p. 391.; and our fig. 1070. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves oval, acuminated, 2 in. to 4 in. 
long, 1 in. to 2in. broad, rounded at the base, entire, s 
downy when young. Flowers upon downy pedicels, 
and disposed unilaterally in lateral, leafy, lengthened & 
racemes, many in a raceme. Racemes numerous. 
Segments of calyx ovate and acute. Corolla oblong, 
downy, pale flesh-colour. (Don’s Mull.) An evergreen 
low tree. Nepal, at Suembu, and Sirinagur. Height 
20 ft. to 40 ft.; in British gardens 2 ft. to 3 ft. In- 
troduced in 1825. Flowers white ; May. ata tee cue 
Genus XI. 
PHYLLO’DOCE Sal. Tur Puytiopoce. Lin. Syst. Decandria 
Monogynia. 
Identification. Sal. Par., t. 36.; D. Don in Ed. Phil. Journ., July, 1834; Don’s Mill., 3. p, 832. 
Synonymes. Andrémeda sp. L.; Menziésia sp. Swartz, Smith. 
Derivation. Phyllodoce, the name of one of the nymphs of Cyrene, daughter of the river Peneus. 
Gen, Char. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla globose, with a contractéd 5-toothed 
mouth. Stamens 10, enclosed; filaments slender, glabrous ; cells of anthers 
short, truncate, mutic. Stigma peltate, 5-tuberculate. Capsule 5-celled, 
with a septicidal dehiscence. Seeds compressed, shining. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen ; lincar, obtuse, spreading. 
Flowers terminal, solitary, or many together in a kind of umbel.— Shrubs, 
evergreen, very diminutive. Natives of the North of Europe, Asia, and 
North America. 
