2 VACCINIACES (Brown). [ Vaccinium. 
lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, slightly thickened and recurved 
along the serrulate margins, more or less pubescent on the basal part 
of the midrib, otherwise glabrous on both sides, reticulately veined, 
with the veins more conspicuous beneath; racemes axillary, }—} in, 
long, 5-8-flowered; rhachis angular, glabrous; flowers nodding; 
bracts 1-2 lin. long, 4-1 lin. broad, lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, acute, 
boat-shaped, minutely ciliate; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, jointed under 
the ovary, glabrous ; calyx glabrous ; ovary-part 4 lin. long, broadly 
obconical ; lobes 3 lin. long, 2—1 lin. broad, deltoid-ovate, acuminate, 
erect; corolla urceolate, 4—5-lobed, glabrous, white ; tube 2 lin. 
long, 14-14 lin. in diam.; lobes % lin. long, } lin. broad, ovate- 
oblong, obtuse, recurved; stamens 8-10, epigynous, about { lin. 
longer than the corolla-tube ; filaments 1} lin. long, flattened, hairy ; 
anthers 12 lin. long, minutely scabrous, produced into 2 tubes open- 
ing by oblique pores at the apex; ovary 4~5-celled ; style filiform, 
2 lin. long; stigma simple; fruit not seen. 
Katanart ReGion: Transvaal; amongst rocks on the summit of the Devils 
Kantoor, near Barberton, 5500-5600 ft., Galpin, 659! Bolus, 7616! 
V. africanum (Britt. in Trans, Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 23, t. 4, fig. 3-5) 
from Nyasaland, is a very close ally of this, differing in its glabrous stems, 
longer pointed leaves (which are much more conspicuously reticulate with more 
prominent veins on both sides) and longer racemes. 
Orper LXXIX. ERICACEZ. 
(By H. Bouvs, Ff, Guturiz, and N. B. Brown.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite, regular. Calyx free, 4-5-toothed, -lobed 
or -partite; teeth, lobes or segments equal or unequal, imbricate, 
valvate or open in bud, persistent. Corolla hypogynous or in — 
Lagenoearpus arising from the middle of the ovary, gamopetalous — 
and 2-5- (rarely 6-10-) lobed or of 3-7 free petals, very variable in 
form, imbricate, contorted or rarely valvate in bud, persistent or 
deciduous. Stamens 3-10, rarely 12 or more, hypogynous except in 
Lagenocarpus, sometimes adnate to the base of the corolla ; filaments 
free or rarely connate; anthers 2-celled, basifixed or dorsifixed, free _ 
or connate ; cells often free down to the middle or beyond, with or 
without a crest, spur or arista at the base or on the back at or towards _ 
the apex, sometimes produced at the apex into tubes, opening by 
pores or longitudinal slits. Disk none or annular or tumid, crenate 
or lobed. Ovary superior or in Lagenocarpus half-inferior to the 
corolla, 1-12-celled; style filiform or cylindrie; stigma simple, 
capitate or peltate, entire, lobed or dentate. Ovules 1 to many in 
each cell, axile, pendulous or rarely erect, anatropous. Fruit a 
loculicidal or septicidal capsule, rarely baccate or drupaceous, 1- to 
many-seeded. Seeds usually minute, angled or compressed ; testa 
sometimes Jax and produced at the ends; albumen fleshy, embryo 
minute, axile. 
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