Part 1, 1914] ERICACEAE 73 
A widely branching shrub 1-4 m. tall, with nearly glabrous or sparingly pubescent foliage; 
leaf-blades leathery, oblong to narrowly elliptic or sometimes oval or obovate, 2-8 em. long, 
acute or acuminate at both ends, distinctly serrulate, usually shining above, short-petioled; 
panicles copiously leafy-bracted; pedicels 3-8 mm. long; calyx flattish, 3-4 mm. broad, the 
lobes ovate or half-orbicular; corolla white or pinkish, subglobose, 2-3 mm. in diameter: cap- 
sules subglobose or spheroidal, 3-3.5 mm. long, 5-6-ribbed. 
TYPE LOCALIty: South Carolina. 
DIstRiBuTIoN: Coastal plain, Virginia to Florida and Louisiana. 
32. EPIGAEA IL. Sp. Pl. 395. 1753. 
Low or depressed evergreen shrubby plants, with creeping stems and branches. Leaves 
alternate; blades leathery, entire, firm in age, petioled. Flowers perfect or dioecious, often 
heteromorphous, in axillary clusters. Calyx subtended by several bractlets; lobes 5, imbri- 
cate, persistent. Corolla white or pink, salverform; limb usually with 5 lobes. Stamens 10, 
included; filaments adnate to the base of the corolla-tube; anthers elongate, awnless. Disk 
10-lobed. Ovary 5-celled, 5-lobed, pubescent; style elongate, straight; stigma §-lobed, the 
lobes sometimes slightly elongate. Ovules numerous in each cavity. Capsule depressed- 
globose, loculicidally 5-valved, hirsute. 
Type species, Epigaca repens L. 
1. Epigaea repens L. Sp. Pl. 395. 1753. 
Plants bright-green or sometimes purple-tinged, hirsute, the stems branched at the base, 
the branches creeping, 0.5-3 dm. long; leaves persistent, the blades leathery, oblong, ovate, 
oblong-ovate, or suborbicular, 2-10 cm. long, apiculate or acute, reticulate, ciliate, rounded 
or cordate at the base; petioles 6-50 mm. long; clusters few-many-flowered; bracts ovate to 
lanceolate, acute; calyx glabrous or nearly so, the lobes lanceolate to ovate, acuminate, 5~9 
mm. long; corolla pink or white, the tube cylindric, nearly twice as long as the sepals, the 
lobes spreading, ovate, obtuse, or abruptly-pointed, about half as long as the tube, pubescent 
within; capsules spheroidal, pubescent, 7-9 mm. broad. 
TYPE Locality: Virginia. 
wae Newfoundland to Saskatchewan, and southward to Florida, Kentucky, and 
, ee Lam. Tab. Encyc. $l. 367; Andr. Bot. Rep. 2: pl. 102; Bot. Cab. pl. 160; Bot. 
Reg. 3: pl. 201; Goodale, Wild Fl. Am. 1. 37; Meehan’s Mo. 3: pl. 2; Garden 45: 193; Britt. & 
Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 2774; ed. 2. f. 3247; Hervey, Wild Fl. Am. #1. 12; Mathews, Field Book 331. 
33. GAULTHERIA L. Sp. Pl. 395. 1753. 
Evergreen shrubs, various in habit, with horizontal (rootstocks) or erect stems. Leaves 
usually alternate; blades leathery, mostly broad, toothed, sometimes obscurely so. Flowers 
solitary in the axils, or in racemes or panicles. Calyx persistent; lobes longer than the tube 
and hypanthium, often accrescent. Corolla campanulate, conic, ovoid or urceolate with 5 
spreading or recurved lobes. Stamens 10, included; filaments adnate to the base of the 
corolla-tube; anthers usually 2-awned, opening by terminal pores. Disk 10-lobed. Ovary 
5-celled, 5-lobed, glabrous; style columnar; stigma entire. Ovules numerous in each cavity. 
Fruit berry-like, fleshy, the capsule inclosed in the accrescent hypanthium and calyx, which 
is often highly colored and aromatic. 
Type species, Gaultheria procumbens \,. 
Corolla campanulate, prominently 5-lobed. 
Corolla slightly exceeding the calyx; calyx glabrous; leaf-blades of an 
oval or suborbicular type. 1. G. humifusa. 
Corolla much exceeding the calyx; calyx pubescent; leaf-blades of an 
ovate type. 2. G. ovatifolia. 
Corolla urceolate, ovoid, or conic, slightly 5-lobed. . : ; 
Flowers arising singly from the leaf-axils; flower-stalks with scales just 
under the calyx. 3. G. procumbens. 
Flowers in scaly-bracted raceme-like panicles which arise from scaly 
buds; flower-stalks with scales remote from the calyx. 
Corolla slightly exceeding the calyx; panicles few-flowered, mostly 
