Agauria. | LXXVI. ERICACEE (OLIVER). 483 
1. AGAURIA, Hook. f. (Leucothois sect. ex parte, DO. Prod. vii. 
602) ; Benth. et Hook. f, Gen. Pl. ii. p. 586. 
Calyx free, persistent, deeply 5-fid. Corolla tubular-urceolate, with 
5 short ovate teeth. Stamens 10, hypogynous or very slightly adnate 
to base of corolla ; filaments subulate-filiform, pilose ; anthers dehiscing 
by 2 rather broad slightly oblique pores. Ovary 5-celled; style about 
equalling the corolla ; ovules indefinite, ascending from a basal pla- 
centa. Capsule loculicidally 5-valved, without a central persistent 
axis.—Small trees or shrubs, glabrous in our species, with alternate 
oval or oblong-lanceolate acute coriaceous petiolate leaves and flowers 
in unilateral axillary racemes, often clustered at the extremities. 
A small genus confined to Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands. 
l. A. salicifolia, Hook. fil. I.c. p. 586, var. pyrifolia. Tree of 
15-25 Leaves 23-3 in. long, }-2 in. broad ; petiole usually about 
3 in, long. Racemes shorter than or overtopping the upper leaves ; 
flowers ‘red brown.’—Leucothoé angustifolia (mistake for salicifolia), 
DC. var. purifolia, Hook. fil. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 15 and vii. 205. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons Mountains, 4-9,000 ft., and Clarence Peak, Fernando 
Po, 8,500 ft., Mann! 
Occurs also in the Mascarene Islands. 
2. ERICA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 590. 
Calyx deeply 4.fid or 4-partite, persistent. Corolla marcescent, 
qmpanulate or suburceolate in our species; teeth ovate-rotundate. 
Stamens 8, hypogynous, free ; filaments glabrous ; anthers dehiscing by 
large oblique pores, with or without appendages. Ovary 4-celled, with 
indefinite ovules in our species. Capsule globose, loculicidally 4. 
valved; valves separating more or less from the axis.—Wiry shrubs 
with short needle-like or narrow-linear usually verticillate leaves. 
lowers pedicellate, racemose or variously clustered. 
in A very large genus of the Western continents of the Old World, most numerous 
*pecies at the Cape of Good Hope. 
l. B. arborea, Linn.; DO. Prod. vii. 690. Shrab of 5-6 ft. 
(occasionally 50 ft. in Madeira, Lowe); extremities shortly pubescent- 
°mentose with intermingled short patent minutely barbellate hairs. 
ves harrow-linear, ascending, 3-4 in. long, minutely puberulous he 
Slabrate, Shortly petiolate. Flowers usually clustered towards the 
xtremities of short lateral branches, often confluent and forming leafy 
racemes, Calyx deeply 4-fid; segments elliptical or ovate-elliptical. 
Corolla 2-4 times longer than the calyx. Anthers included, bifid 
e _ dehiscing by a very oblique pore, each with a basal sane? or 
he obtuse membranous appendix from the back.—E. acrophya, 
te in Flora, 1838, p. 604. sion iad Fast Benet 
a. Abyssini j ! Q. Dillon an me : : 
Le ott ene, Slinger Pies rcopene ste by ree 
and jy.told good as distinguishing the Abyssinian plant from the South Europe 
€itan species 
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