376 WOODY PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
mens, whose anthers have long, tubular cells, ending in two 
awns. 
Tae CuusterED ZAEnopia. Z. racemosa. De Candolle. 
A low shrub, four to six feet high, with irregular, straggling 
branches, much resembling the whortleberry bushes. Leaves 
on very short petioles, broad-lanceolate or oval, acute at each 
extremity, serrulate, of nearly the same color on both surfaces, 
somewhat downy on the veins beneath. Flowers in regular 
racemes, one to three, or four inches long, on the ends of the 
floral branches, and usually protected by the leaves; they are 
all turned downwards and have been likened to rows of teeth. 
Partial flower-stall very short, with two small, colored bracts 
at base. Calyx of five lanceolate, pointed, greenish or brownish 
white segments, embracing the corolla, and, aiter that is fallen, 
closely adhering to the ovary. 
Corolla oblong-cylindrical, contracied at the mouth, semi- 
transparent at the line of the segments, which are rounded and 
diverging or revolute at the extremity. Filaments dilated at 
base, short, white, tapering toa brown point, supporting the 
brown anthers, which are cleft, each division having two awns. 
Style exserted. The ovary becomes a dry, globular capsule, 
which opens in five recurved valves, surrounded by the persist- 
ent calyx and bracts, and remaining usually till the flowers of 
the next year appear. 
This is a beautiful but much neglected plant. Few exotics 
have such elegance of appearance. Few are so little known. 
This, like the plants of the previous genera, may be easily cul- 
tivated. ‘They require a peat soil or sandy loam. Don says 
of them, “ Being very ornamental, they are desirable shrubs in 
every garden. hey are propagated by layers or by seeds. 
The seeds should be sown in pots or in pans, in sandy peat soil; 
they should be covered slightly with earth, as they are ex- 
tremely small.”’—Gen. Sys., IL, $31. 
Orydendrum arboreum, Andrémeda arlorea of American bot- 
anists, is a handsome, small tree, belonging to this group, which 
might be easily introduced here, as it grows freely a little far- 
ther south. 
