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3-9 em. long, thick, acute or short-acuminate, gland-tipped, obscurely serrulate or nearly 
entire, dull on both sides, somewhat reticulate, sparingly pubescent, with the hairs along the 
edge and near the petiole longer and gland-tipped, rounded or subcordate at the base, short- 
petioled; panicles 3-11 cm. long, loosely flowered, the rachis glandular-hirsute, the branches 
less copiously pubescent; calyx 6-7 mm. wide, the lobes deltoid, acute, glandular-pubescent, 
ciliate; corolla pink (?), ovoid-urceolate, 6.5-7.5 mm. long, glandular-pubescent, the lobes 
recurved ; filaments stout, slightly dilated, pubescent; capstiles spheroidal, 4-5 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LocaLiry: Near Othamalacatle, Hidalgo. 
DisTRIBUTION: Southern Mexico and Guatemala. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. #1. 53, B, 4-6; Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: pl. 20, f. 13. 
23. Gaultheria trichocalycina DC. Prodr. 7: 595. 1839. 
A branching shrub with finely glandular-pubescent twigs; leaf-blades ovate, usually 
broadly so, 1-3 em. long, thickish, acute, usually abruptly gland-tipped, shallowly serrulate, 
dull on both sides, reticulate, finely pubescent on both sides, or nearly glabrous at maturity, 
deeply cordate at the base, short-petioled; panicles 4-8 cm. long, rather loosely flowered, the 
rachis glandular-hirsutulous, the branches similarly pubescent; calyx 6.5-7.5 mm. wide, the 
lobes ovate, acute, glandular-pubescent, ciliolate; corolla ovoid-urceolate or globose-urceolate, 
6-7 mm. long, glandular-pubescent, the lobes recurved; filaments stout, short-pubescent; 
capsules not seen. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Between Pueblo Viejo, Vera Cruz, and Real del Monte, Hidalgo. 
DistRIBuTIon: Middle Mexico. 
24. Gaultheria Shallon Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 284. 1814. 
A diffuse shrub with stoutish branches and copiously glandular-pubescent twigs; leaf- 
blades ovate, oval, orbicular-ovate, suborbicular, or individually somewhat reniform, leathery, 
2-13 cm. long, abruptly pointed or short-acuminate, glabrous at least at maturity, veiny 
beneath when old, distinctly serrulate, abruptly narrowed, rounded or subcordate at the base, 
short-petioled; panicles mostly 7-15 cm. long, the rachis copiously glandular-pubescent, the 
branches short (less than 1 cm.), stout, pubescent like the rachis; bracts more or less pubescent, 
and ciliolate; calyx 6-8 mm. wide, the lobes ovate to triangular-lanceolate, acute or slightly 
acuminate, pubescent; corolla white or pink, urceolate, 8.5-11 mm. long, pubescent, the lobes 
recurved; filaments pubescent; fruits purple, becoming black; capsules 5-7 mm. in diameter. 
Type Locaity: Falls of the Columbia River. 
DistrRisutIon: Alaska and British Columbia to southern California. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. pl. 12; Bot. Mag. pl. 2843; Bot. Reg. pl. 1411; Bot. Cab. 
pl, 1372; Toounsberry, Guide Wild Fl. pl. 88. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES 
GAULTHERIA OVATA DC. Prodr. 7: 596. 1839. 
GAULTHERIA LONGIFOLIA Morren, Ann. Soc. Hort. Gand 1: 441. pl. 43, f. 2. 1845. 
Nativity not known. 
GaAULTHERIA INSIPIDA Benth. Pl. Hartw. 225. 1846. 
34, ERICA L,. Sp. Pl. 352. 1753. 
Shrubs or partially woody plants, with much-branched stems. Leaves small, usually 
ntiumerous and approximate, whorled or apparently whorled; blades often narrow, and appar- 
ently very narrow by the strongly revolute margins, short-petioled. Flowers solitary or in 
terminal clusters. Calyx persistent; lobes usually 4, much longer than the tube, equal or 
nearly so. Corolla urceolate to cylindric; lobes usually 4, very short. Stamens usually 8, 
included; filaments slender; anthers short, appendaged or unappendaged. Ovary usually 
4-celled, somewhat lobed, globular or slightly elongate; style slender; stigma mostly 4-lobed. 
Capsule globose or nearly so, included in the more or less persistent corolla. 
Type species, Erica cinerea I,. 
Leaves whorled in 3’s; calyx glabrous or nearly so; anther-appendages toothed. l. E. cinerea. 
Leaves whorled in 4’s; calyx copiously pubescent; ‘anther- appendages entire. 2. E. Tetralix. 
