84 New Genera and Species of 



Sempervirent, procumbent, and much branched, spreading in a cir- 

 cular manner; ihc branches subverticillate and fasciculate, ascending at 

 the extremity, invested with a loose gray cuticle, which separates and 

 exposes a reddish bark. Leaves coriaceous, about five lines long, and 

 scarcely half an inch in breadth, slightly pointed at the tip, crowded, 

 particularly towards the summit of the branches, mostly somewhat ver- 

 ticillate, but often opposite, and sometimes alternate ; the upper surface 

 bright green, under a lens, (particularly in the young leaves) appearing 

 covered with minute short glandular hairs, when old nearly smooth; 

 the true margin remarkably revolute ; the edges nearly meeting on the 

 under side ; apparent margin minutely denticulate ; petiole very short 

 but distinct, articulated to the branches. Male Flowers sessile in tho 

 axils of the leaves at the summit of the last year's branches. PcrianOi 

 composed of 5 or G oblong, or obovate-oblong, smoothish scales, the inner 

 ones scarcely petaloid, forming an oval bud, from the apex of which tho 

 stamens protrude. Stamens mostly 3, sometimes 4 ; filaments 2 lines 

 long, slender, smooth, inserted into a minute receptacle ; anthers 

 roundish, two-celled, opening longitudinally on the outside, no rudiment 

 of an ovary. — Fertile Flowers inconspicuous, collected in very 

 small heads at the summit of the branches. Each head composed of 

 10 to 12 flowers, surrounded with a number of short brownish concave 

 bracts. Scales of the perianth about 5, ohovatc, obtuse-, the inner ones 

 smaller, tinged rose-color, nearly smooth. Ovary obovatc, 3 — 4-celled ; 

 each cell containing a single ovule ; style three times as long as the 

 ovary, purplish red, cleft below the middle; the divisions somewhat 

 spreading. 



Hab. — Sandy fields in pine barrens near Cedar Bridge, 

 Monmouth County, New Jersey! Also near Pemberton Mills, 

 about ten miles from Burlington, in the same state, S. W. 

 Conrad, Esq. ■' 



Obs. — This very interesting addition to the botany of the 

 United States, was first discovered by the late Solomon W. 

 Conrad, Esq. Professor of Botany in the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, a short time before his death, but the infirm state of 

 his health did not permit him to examine the plant. My friend 

 Dr. Pickering, of Philadelphia, supplied me with some of 

 Mr. Conrad's specimens, on which were a few male flowers, 

 and afterwards the same plant without fructification, was 



