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GAULTHERIA rerruaGinea. 
Rusty ‘Gaultheria. 
Nat. Ord. Ertcackm.—Drcanpria MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-lobus, demum ampliatus, plus minus baccatus et capsu- 
lam ambiens aut fovens. Corolla ovata, ore seepe contracta, 5-dentata. Stamina 
10, inclusa; filamentis seepe villosis; antheris 4-aristatis nempe apice bifidis, 
loculis 2-aristatis rarissime muticis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma obtusum. Squame 
hypogynz 10 distinctee aut concrete. Capsula depresso-globosa, 5-locularis, 
5-sulcafa, 5-valvis, valvis septiferis, loculicido-dehiscentibus. Placente axi ad- 
nate. Semina.numeroga, parva, testa subreticulata—Frutices aut rarius arbus- 
cule, ex America, rarius ex India, orti. Folia alterna, sempervirentia, dentata aut 
integerrima. Pedicelli nunc avillares uniflori, nune in racemum terminalem dis- 
positi, bibracteolati. Corolle albe, rosee, aut coccinee. De Cand. 
GAULTHERIA ferruginea ; ramulis rachibus pedicellisque ferrugineo-hirsutis glan- 
dulosoque pilosis, foliis breviter petiolatis ovatis mucrone calloso acutis supra 
levibus subtus reticulatis parce pilosis serratis superioribus ciliatis, racemis 
terminalibus multibracteatis, bracteis coloratis dorso hirsutis demum glabra- 
tis, ealycibus corollisque urceolatis hirsutis roseo-coccineis. 
GavuLrHeErta ferruginea. Cham. et Schlecht. in Linnea, v. 1. p. 524. 
Prodr. v. 7. p. 595. 
GAULTHERTIA tomentosa. Spreng. Syst. Veget. Cur. post. p. 159, non Kunth. 
ANDROMEDA hirsuta. Arrab. Fl. Flum. v. 4. p. 1. t. 99. 
Raised at the Comely Bank Nursery, Edinburgh, from seeds 
sent by the late Mr. Gardner from the Organ Mountains, Brazil. 
It appears also in the sets of that zealous botanist’s distributed 
collections. It is certainly variable in the shape of the leaves, 
and in the degree of hairiness, and in the deciduous nature of 
the hairs, in the presence or absence of glandular hairs, and 
variable in the length and direction of the racemes, and in the 
size of the bracteas. We have every reason to believe that Cha- 
misso and Schlechtendal’s and De Candolle’s G@. ferruginea 1s 
identical with this; but we fear a considerable number of the 
species from tropical America, given in De Candolle’s third divi- 
sion of Gaultheria, “floribus racemosis, bracteis amplis sicco- 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1853. 
