C ee AEN n Tos 
Diplycosia.] LXXXII. ERICACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 459 
9. D. discolor, Clarke; branchlets scabrid-pilose, leaves ovate or 
elliptic narrowed at both ends serrate very white beneath, racemes pubescent, 
calyx-teeth ovate acute. Gaultheria discolor, Nutt. in Bot. Mag. t. 5034; 
Belg. Hortic. viii. (1858) 198, t. 52, fig. 2. 
Buoran; Duphla Hills, Nuttall. Mou ; Nattoung expedition, Parish, 
Habit of Gaultheria fragrantissima. Leaves 2 by 3-1i in, glabrous, often 
3-nerved to near the apex; petiole d in. Racemes 2 in. ; pedicels 4 in.; bracts d in., 
ovate-lanceolate, caducous; bracteoles 4 in., lanceolate, usually close to the ovary, 
caducous. Corolla à by } in., ovoid, white, mouth red within. Anther-cells oblong, 
not produced at the apex, muticous or with 1 or 2 most minute points, Fruit nearly 
as of G. fragrantissima but rather smaller; calyx sometimes enlarged, blue-black, 
with ovate lobes ; sometimes (in the same branch with ripe seeds) hardly altered, of 5 
ovate spreading lobes, below and much shorter than the truit. 
3. D.? semi-infera, Clarke; branches scabrid, leaves oblong or ovate 
not acuminate, racemes pubescent, ovary half-inferior, calyx succulent closed 
over the fruit with erect linear teeth from the centre.—Vaccinioid. Griff. Itin. 
Notes, 127, nn. 484, 485. 
Buoran; alt. 7-9000 ft, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3482). 
A stout shrub. Leaves 14 by 1-3 in., base cuneate or rounded, erenate-serrate, 
coriaceous, glabrous, punctate beneath; petiole 0-4 in. Racemes 1-2 in., sometimes ` 
dense; pedicels 4-4 in.; bracteoles small, usually close under the ovary. Corolla 
1 in, ovoid-conie. Stamens (in 2 of the few available flowers examined) small, 
irregular, imperfect, apparently corresponding to the stamens of the dimorphie 
flowers of Gaultheria fragrantissima. Ovary in the bud fully half-inferior ; upper 
half conoidal, 5-ribbed, densely adpressed-pilose, containing the ovules, Berry i-iin. 
diam., globose, almost inferior ; the depressed conical vertex opening by 5 hairy valves 
loeulieidally. Seeds angular, as of Gaultheria.—This berry is quite unlike the fruit 
of Gaultheria and Diplycosia and probably indicates a new genus, which cannot be 
founded without better flowers for examination. 
3. CASSIOPE, D. Don. 
Small, fastigiate shrubs. Leaves small, rigid, densely imbricate, adpressed to 
the branches, entire or ciliate. Pedicels axillary, bracteate at the base only, 
curved in flower, erect in fruit. Sepals 5, free, thickened at the base, imbricate 
in bud; spreading and unaltered in fruit. Corolla campanulate, white or pink ; 
lobes 5, short, recurved. Stamens 10 (or 8-12), slightly attached to the base 
of the corolla, filaments linear; anthers ovoid, truncate, with 1-2 horns divari- 
cate from beneath the summit of each cell. Ovary 5-celled ; style cylindric, 
stigma simple; ovules many in each cell. Capsule globose, apex depressed, 
loculicidally 5-valved. Seeds minute, long-ellipsoid, somewhat curved ; outer 
coat of long, somewhat loose cells.—Species 10, in the frigid regions of the 
N. hemisphere. 
1. C. fastigiata, D. Don in Edinb. Phil. Journ. xvii. (1834) 158; leaves 
1 in. ovate-oblong, pedicels 0-4 in. woolly. DC. Prodr. vii. 611; Bot. Mag. t. 
4790. Andromeda fastigiata, Wall. Cat. 764, and in Asiat. Research. xii. 394 
and Pl, As. Rar. 51, t. 284; Royle IU. 260, t. 63, fig. 1. A. cupressiformis, 
Wall.; D. Don in. Mem. Wern, Soe. iii. 411, and Prodr. 150. 
ArrmxE HiwALAYA; alt. 10-14,000 ft., common from Kashmir to Bhotan. 
Forming dense tufts 6-12 in. high. Leaves somewhat 4-fariously imbricate, 
thickened on the back, ciliate. — Pedicels 2-4-nate or solitary. Sepals 1-4 in., 
elliptic, acute, nearly glabrous ; margins scarious, often toothed. Corolla H in., 
widely campanulate, white. Filaments glabrous or sparingly pilose ; anthers truncate, 
each cell 1-horned.—‘‘ Heather” (of English travellers). 
