FLORA CAPENSIS. 
| Orper LXXVIII. VACCINIACEZ. 
| (By N. E. Brown.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite, regular. Calyzx-tube adnate to the ovary; 
limb 5-lobed or 5-toothed, persistent or deciduous. Corolla gamo- 
petalous, tubular, campanulate, globose or urceolate, 4—7- (usually 5-) 
| lobed or toothed, deciduous ; lobes imbricate or valvate. Stamens 
4-14, usually twice as many as the corolla-lobes, epigynous or in- 
j serted at the base of the corolla; filaments free or connate ; anthers 
dorsifixed, 2-celled; cells usually produced into tubes at the apex, 
opening by terminal pores or elongated slits. Ovary inferior, 2-10- 
eelled, often crowned with an epigynous disk; style slender or fili- 
form; stigma simple, subcapitate or minutely 4~5-lobed; ovules 
usually numerous, rarely 2 to few in each eell, axile on tumid or 
bilobed placentas, anatropous. Fruit a many- (rarely few-) seeded 
berry, Seeds smal] or minute, usually compressed, testa coriaceous ; 
albumen fleshy ; embryo minute, axile. 
Shrubs, undershrubs, or small trees, sometimes epiphytic. Leaves alternate ; 
stipules 0. Inflorescence various, usually bracteate. 
Distr1B. Genera about 32; species about 350, chiefly natives of the Tropics 
on mountains, with a few in the temperate regions; only 3 or 4 occur in Africa. 
I. VACCINIUM, Linn. 
Calyx superior, 4—-5-lobed. Corolla urceolate, campanulate or 
subtubular, 4—5-lobed or -toothed. Stamens 8-10, free; anthers 
produced into 2 tubes opening by pores or slits at the apex, some- 
times spurred on the back. Ovary inferior, turbinate, hemispherical 
or globose, 4—5-celled or falsely 8-10-celled by spurious partitions 
from the placenta; style slender; stigma simple or subcapitate > 
ovules numerous or few in each cell. Fruit a berry. ne 
Shrubs or undershrubs, rarely trees; leaves evergreen or deciduous, entire or 
serrulate ; flowers in fascicles or racemes, rarely solitary, bracteate. ables 
Species over 100, chiefly natives of the North Temperate zone and mountains 
of the Tropics, 3—4 in Africa. ! ae 
4. V. Exul (Bolus in Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 1941); a shrub 2-5 ft. 
high; branchlets terete, becoming angular-striate when dried, pube- 
pubescent ; blade 3-12 in. long, 3~$ in. 
ee broad, ovate-lanceolate or 
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scent, leafy ; leaves rather rigidly coriaceous ; petiole 1-1} lin. longyi. 
