ERICACEAE. — GAULTHERIA 555 
lata, acutiuscula, mucronata, basi cuneata, 1.5-3 em. longa et 6-10 mm. 
lata, crenato-serrata, glabra, supra nitentia, subtus pallidiora paleolis 
minutis parte conspersa. Racemi puberuli; ovarium sericeo-villo- 
sulum. Fructus maturesceus coeruleus, demum albus; capsula extus 
sericeo-villosa. Ceterum ut in typo. 
Western Szech'uan: west and near Wén-ch'uan Hsien, wood- 
lands, on most rocks, alt. 2000-2600 m., July and September 1908 
(No. 920, type; shrub 30-45 cm. tall, flowers white, fruit snow-white) ; 
Wa-shan, wet rocks, alt. 2000-2800 m., July and September 1908 (No. 
920°; shrub 15-45 cm. tall, flowers white, fruit snow-white); Mupin, 
humus-clad rocks, alt. 2300 m., October 1910 (No. 920^; 15-30 cm. 
tall, fruit white). 
This variety is quite common on humus-clad rocks in moist woods in western 
Szech’uan. The fruit at first blue becomes snow-white at maturity and is most 
attractive. From the type it differs chiefly in its narrower cuneate and acutish 
leaves, in the more pubescent branchlets and in the villose ovary and capsule. 
Gaultheria nummularioides D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 150 (1825).— 
Wallich, Cat. No. 1524 (1828). — Royle, Ill. 260, t. 63, fig. 2 (1839). — 
Clarke in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. III. 457 (1882). — Franchet in Nouv. 
Arch. Mus. Paris, sér. 2, X. 44 (Pl. David. II. 82) (1887). 
Gaultheria repens Blume, Bijd. Fl. Nederl. Ind. 857 (1826). 
Gaultheria Nummulariae De Candolle, Prodr. VII. 592 (1839). 
Gaultheria Griffith, Icon. Pl. As. t. 518, fig. 2 (1854). 
Pernettya repens Zollinger, Cat. No. 138 (1854). 
Western Szech'uan: Wa-shan, woodlands, alt. 2300-2600 m., 
September 1908 (No. 924; prostrate over rocks, fruit blue-black); 
south-east of Tachien-lu, alt. 2600-3000 m., October 1910 (No. 4124; 
creeping shrub, fruits black); without precise locality, alt. 2500 m., 
July 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 3911). 
This species is rather common in moist shady places growing on humus-clad 
rocks, old tree trunks and mossy banks. 
Gaultheria nummularioides, var. elliptica Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 
Fruticulus prostratus ramis saepe adscendentibus. Folia elliptica 
V. ovato-elliptica, acuta mucronataque, basi late cuneata, 8-10 mm. 
longa et 3.5-5.5 mm. lata, nervis supra impressis et venulis leviter 
mpressis. Ceterum ut in typo. 
Western Szech’uan: Hung-ya Hsien, near Wa-wu-shan, on 
Moist rocks, alt. 1000 m., September 8, 1908 (No. 2708). 
