Tas. 8829, 
GAULTHERIA cunzrATA. 
Western Szechuan. 
FEricacgeagE. Tribe ANDROMEDEAE. 
GauttTuertis, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 582. 
Gaultheria cuneata, Bean; species nova sinensis, G. pyroloidei, Miq., 
e Japonia et G. pyrolaefoliac, Hook. f.,ex Himalaya orientali quam maxime 
affinis, ab ambabus tamen foliis angustioribus, ovario fructuque dense 
pilosis apte distinguenda. | 
Fruticulus nanus sempervirens, 0°3-0°5 m. altus ; coma compacta densiuscula ; 
novelli crebre foliati, dense pubescentes. Folia alterna, persistentia, 
coriacea, obovata vel anguste ovalia, acuta, basi cuneata, breviter 
crenulata crenulis. singulis apice glandulosis, 1*2-2°8 cm. longa, 0°6-1°2 
cm. lata, supra saturate viridia, nitida, glabra, subtus pallidiora, nitida, 
glandulis parcis punctata, nervi laterales supra impressi, subtus prominuli ; 
petiolus 1°5 mm. longus. FRacemi puberuli, 2°5-3°8 em. longi, terminales 
et axillares ; pedicelli puberuli, 2-bracteolati, bracteolis scariosis. Flores 
albi, cernui, aestate adulta aperti. Calyx albescens, 5-lobus, lobis 
triangulari-ovatis, 2 mm. longis, minute ciliatis. Corolla alba, urceolata, 
6 mm. longa, 5-dentata, dentibus perbrevibus recurvis. Stamina 10, 
inclusa; filamenta puberula, basin versus incrassata; antherae 2-lobae, 
lobis singulis apice 2-cornutis; pollen album. Ovariwm 5-gonum, dense 
sericeo-puberulum; stylus columnaris, glaber, corolla aequilongus. 
Fructus 5-lobus, pubescens, capsularis, nisi ipso apice calyce albo 
accrescente carnoso involutus ideoque baccam albam globosam 9 mm. 
latam simulans. Seméina plurima, minuta, brunnea, nitida.—G. pyroloides, 
Miq., var cuneata, Rehd. et Wils. in Plant. Wilson. vol. i. p. 554.— 
W. J. Bean. 
The Chinese Gaultheria now figured was originally 
described by Messrs. Rehder and Wilson as a variety, 
var. cuneata, of G. pyroloides. The name G. pyroloides 
was originally given in 1864 by Miquel to a Japanese 
plant which he had identified (Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.- 
Bat. vol. i. p. 30) with one collected by Sir Joseph 
Hooker in Sikkim in 1849. The name he used was 
attributed by Miquel to Hooker and Thomson. But 
these authors never published such a name, although we 
know that Hooker at one time intended to call the 
- OcroneR~DEcEMBER, ‘1919. 
