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GENUS F/.-MENZIESIA. Smith. 
Calyx free from the ovary, 4- or 5-cleft or -partite. Corolla 
hypogynous, deciduous, monopctalous, globose- or ovoid-urceolate, 
with as many erect or reflexed teeth as there are segments of 
the calyx. Stamens twice as many as the calyx-segments, i.e. 8 
or 10 ; filaments subulate ; anthers with 2 horns, or obtuse at the 
apex, generally without awns, but sometimes these arc present. 
Fruit a capsule, with 4 or 5 cells opening septicidally by 4* or 5 
valves breaking away from the central placental column, the valves 
separating at the dissepiments. Seeds very numerous. 
Ileathlike shrubs or uudershrubs, with alternate leaves, and 
blue, pink, or crimson flowers in terminal racemes. 
This genus of plants was named in honour of Archibald Menzies, F.L.S., surgeon 
and naturalist to the expedition under Vancouver, in which he collected many speci- 
mens of plants on the north-west coast of America, New Holland, Yan Dienien's 
Land, &c. 
Sub-Genus I.— DABOECIA. Don. 
Calyx deeply 4-cleft. Corolla-limb 4-toothed. Stamens 8 ; 
filaments flattened, shorter than the anthers ; anthers elongated, 
sagittate at the base ; cells obliquely truncate, and separated at 
the apex. Stigma truncate, indistinctly 4-lobed. Capsule 4-celled, 
4-valved. 
SPECIES I.— MENZIESIA POLIFOLIA. Jus*. 
Plate DCCCLXXXV. 
Daboecia polifolia, Don. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 217. D. G. Prod. Vol. VII. 
p. 713. Gr. & Gcdr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 434. 
Erica Daboecii, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 509. 
E. Dabeoci, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 35. 
Andromeda Daboecia, Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. xiii. p. 338. 
Leaves evergreen, ovate-oval or -elliptical, apiculate, with revo- 
lute entire margins, dark-green and sparingly clothed with gland- 
tipped hairs above, densely felted with pure-white wool beneath, 
where the midrib is prominent and glabrous in the basal half. 
Flowers in terminal lax racemes. Pedicels shorter than the 
corolla, with strapshaped herbaceous bracts at the base. Calyx 
deeply 4-cleft. Corolla 4-toothed. Stamens 8 ; anthers sagittate 
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