Blossom one leaf, egg-shaped, slightly five-cleft; border small, rolled back.
Honey-cup ten small substances, awl-shaped, upright, very short, surrounding the seed-bud within the chives.
Chives. Ten threads, awl-shaped, turned inwards, shorter than the blossom; fixed into the receptacle. Tips two-horned; horns two cleft.
Pointal. Seed-bud roundish and flattened; Shaft cylindrical, the length of the blossom. Summit obtuse.
Seed-vessel. Capsule roundish obtusely five-sided, flattened, five cells, five valves; covered on all sides by the inner cup, transformed and swelled to a roundish berry, coloured, open at top.
Seeds many, nearly egg-shaped, angular and hard.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gaultheria foliis ovatis, obtuse-dentatis, apice confertis; caulis flexuosus, filiformis.
Gaultheria with egg-shaped leaves, bluntly toothed, and crowded together at the top; stem grows zigzag and thread-shaped.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.