Ericacee.] THE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS. 257 
Thibaudia variegata (Wall. Cat. No. 751). Shrubby ; leaves shining, coriaceous, broad-lanceolate, 
tapering towards base, subdenticulate, short petioled, and generally crowded together ; inflorescence 
axillary racemose, bracts small, calyx and peduncles smooth, flowers variegated with pink and red. 
Ceratostemma variegata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. p.413. Agapetes variegata, Don. 1. c.—Tab. 79, fig. 1. 
(a) a flower ; (6) the same, with the corol removed and the calyx cut open; (¢) the corol opened ; (d) 
the pistil; (e) two anthers. i 
Hab. Pundooa Mountain. Wail. Mountain forests near Chittagong, Silhet, and the Garrow Hills 
where it is called Jalamoot, flowering in the cool season, when it is highly ornamental, with the seed 
ripening in July (Rowb.) 
Gaylussacia serrata (Lindley). Shrubby; leaves narrow-lanceolate, serrate ; acute, stiff, coriaceous, 
shining, short petioled and crowded together, especially towards the extremities of the branches; stipules 
coloured subulate, racemes axillary, many-flowered ; flowers drooping, long pedicelled, white tinged 
with green, bracts small subulate. Thibaudia serrata, Wall. Cat. No. 6299. Agapetes serrata, Don. 
—Tab. 79, fig. 2. (a) a flower; (b) the same, with the corol opened ; (d) an anther; (e) transverse 
section of berry. 
Hab. Chirraponjee, one of the Silhet mountains; in flower in February. 
103. MONOTROPES. 
This family consisting of the tribes Pyrolee and Monotropeea, sometimes themselves 
considered orders, includes but few genera and species; and these nearly confined to 
the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America; but Monotropa, a genus common to 
the northern parts of Europe and America, has also species in the Himalayas. Of 
these one is considered by Mr. Don as identical with the American M. Morisoniana ; 
this is found in Kemaon, in the neighhourhood of Mussooree, and Kedarkanta; the 
other a smaller species, 17. humilis, Don, was obtained by Dr. Wallich from Gossainthan, 
who includes both under his 7. Nepalensis. Chimaphila umbellata is diuretic and tonic. 
104. ERICACEZ. 
The Heath-tribe are so well known as ornamental plants, that it need only be stated 
that with generally monopetalous corollas, those of Ledum scarcely cohere, and that 
while others contribute a few, this order gives nearly the whole of its species to the 
gardens and green-houses of Europe. This fact at once indicates that they are inhabi- 
tants of the cold and temperate parts of the world; and we accordingly find the species 
of the two tribes Ericee and Rhodoree distributed through Europe and North America, 
and along Siberia to Kamschatka and Japan. The heaths are known to be especially 
abundant at the Cape of Good Hope: a few species of other genera are found in the 
mountains of South America, in the Islands of Java and Mauritius, and the south of 
China. In Australia their place is supplied by Epacridee. A few species are found on 
the Neelgherries and the Island of Ceylon, but several all along the Himalayas; so that 
we have Ericacee in the northern, and Vaccinace@ chiefly in the southern parts of those 
mountains. Gaultheria ovalifolia is found on the Neelgherries, G. fragrantissima at 
Narainhetty in Nepal, and G. nuwmmularioides on Gossainthan ; of these the last is the 
only one I have found in the more northern portions of these mountains; but another 
species, G. trichophylia, figured with the former in pl. 63, is common on the Choor and at 
Jumnotri, as well as on the mountains surroundingCashmere. The species of Andromeda 
are five in number, A. formosa, lanceolata, villosa, and ovalifolia, all found in the moun- 
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