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opening septicidally, with 2 or 3 valves separating at the apex at 
the partitions. Seeds numerous. 
A small prostrate diffusely-branched shrub, with opposite ever- 
green coreaceous leaves and small pink flowers with red calyces. 
This genus is named after the celebrated French botanist Loiseleur-Deslongchamps, 
who published a Flora of France in 1810. 
SPECIES I.-LOISELEURIA PHOCUMBENS. Desv. 
Plate DCCCLXXXIV. 
Reich. Ic. PL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLIX. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2710. 
Azalea procumbens, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 865. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. 
p. 217. Hook & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 273. Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 49. 
Koch, Syu. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 548. Reich, fil. 1. c. 
The only species. 
In barren rocky places on mountains in the Scotch ITighlands ; 
from Stirling and Perthshire northwards, extending to Sutherland, 
Orkney, and Shetland. 
Scotland. Shrub. Late Summer. 
A small much-branched prostrate shrub, growing in dense mats. 
Stems woody, rooting, tortuous, diffusely branched, with dull-brown 
bark splitting off in scales. Shoots of the year glabrous. Leaves 
opposite, crowded, J to J inch long, coriaceous, evergreen, oblong- 
oval, attenuated into short indistinct petioles, with the margins 
very broadly revolutc, dark-green, shining, glabrous, and with 
the midrib impressed above, densely felted with short white wool 
beneath, with the midrib very thick, prominent, glabrous, leaving 
only a slender strip of the felted portion visible between it and the 
reflected part of the margin. Mowers erect, 2 to 5, in an umbellate 
raceme. Pedicels red, \ to J inch long, with sub-herbaceous ovate 
bracts (which are woolly within) at the base, destitute of bracteoles. 
Calyx red, 4-partite. Segments oblong-lanceolate, blunt. Corolla 
pink, regular, widely funnel-shaped, ^ inch across, 5-cleft, with the 
lobes oblong, obtuse. Stamens 5, included, without appendages ; 
anthers opening by clefts instead of merely pores, as is usually the 
case in the Ericacea3. Capsule sub-globular, acuminated, crimson, 
.'i bout the size of a hemp-seed, splitting at the apex into 2 or 3 
valves, each of which is again split at the apex. 
Trailing Azalea. 
French, Azalee Couchee. 
This plant is abundant in the North, on most of the Scottish Highland moun- 
tains, among <;rass and moss, and nowhere more plentiful than on the Cairu-gourm 
range, where it forms large dark-green patches. 
