NAT. ORDER. 
V - . ., Dumosce. 
PEINOS VEETICILLATUS. WINTEE BEEEY, 
Class VI. Hexandria. Order I. Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx, Perianth inferior, of one leaf, six-cleft half way 
down, flat very small, permanent. Corolla, of one petal, wheel- 
shaped. Tahe, none. Limb, flat, deeply cloven into six orate 
segments. Stamen, filaments, six awl-shaped, erect, shorter than 
: the Corolla. Anthers, oblong", obtuse. Germen, superior, orate, 
terminating- in a style shorter than the Stamens. Stigma, obtuse. 
Berry, roundish, six-celled, much larg'er than the Calyx. Seeds, 
solitary, bony, obtuse, convex on one side, ang-ular on the other. 
Spe. Char. Calyx, inferior, six cleft. Corolla, wheel-shaped, and 
from three to seven cleft. 
" The stem is shrubby, and branched all the way up ; the bran- 
ches are alternate, horizontal, spreading", and of a bluish g'rey or ash- 
color ; the extremities, or new shoots, being- g-reenish ; the leaves are 
oval, tapering- at their base, ending- in a point, and sawed on their 
edgfes ; they are of a dark, or somewhat olive-g-reen color, and smooth 
above, but downy on the nerves and veins beneath, alternately ; they 
are alternately arrang-ed along the branches, and are supported by 
short foot-stalks ; the Jloivers are often dioicous, small and white, and 
grow together in axillary and lateral groups of from three to four in 
number, rarely solitary; the corolla is monopetalous, rotate, six and 
sometimes seven cleft ; the stamens are generally six in number ; the 
berries are globular, and vary a little in size, as represented in the 
plate, but are generally of the magnitude of a marrowfat pea. As 
winter advances, they become of a more purplish color. That the 
Vol. IV. — 40. 
