372 Bi'RMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIOXS. 



Y. (Agapetes) AcrxixATUM, D. Dm. Jraulmain district. 



Corolla 2 liucs long, uni-shapcd. Plowers in slioit umbel-liku racemes arising 

 laterally from the branches. 



Sub-genus EpiGYxruir, Klotsch. 



Flowers small, urn-shaped or urceolate-campanulate. Pedicels short, slender, not 

 or only at the very joint thickened. Kacemes one-sided. Berries globose. 



* Epiphytical slinih. Bracts deciduous. 



Y. priiTLi-ii, Kz. Epiphytic on the Martaban Hills at 5000 to 6000 



feet. var. ft Taipo Hill at 4U00 feet. 



Branchlets pubescent. Corolla villous inside at the mouth. Anthers with 2 

 bristles at the tubes. 



Y. (ThIBAUDIa) LOEAXlniFLOKA, Wall. (M.). 



** Terrestrial sJiriibs or trees. Bracts decidaoiis. 



Y. (EriGYxrcji) Doxiaxum, Klotzsch. Hills East of Toung-ngoo at 3000 to 



6000 feet. 



All parts, also the pedicels, corolla, and calyx, glabrous. 



Y. EXAEisTATUJr, Kz. Jlartabau at 3000 to 6000 feet. 



Young shoots and racemes (sometimes also the calyx) pubescent. Corolla glabrous. 



Possibly only an exaristate form of T'. Lexclieiiaultii, Wight. V. Malaccense, ono 

 of this vicinity, clitfers in the puberulous corolla (Kurz). 



The succulent berries of dilferent species of J'accinium, as Billierries, Whortle- 

 berries, Cranberries, are pleasant and acid, and valued as antiscorljutics. 



§ § Corolla h/pogijnous or perigijnous. 

 * Flowers usualhj regular. 



Order ERICACE^. 



C'aly.c more or less deeply 5- or 4-lobed, or toothed, the tube atlnate to the 

 ovary, or quite free, sometimes very short. Curolla inferior or superior, the tube 

 ovoid and globular to elongate, the lobes valvate or imbricate, very rarely as many as 

 corolla-lobes, inserted within the corolla, but free from it. Anthers, 2-cellecl opening 

 at the summit by 2 separate pores or oblong slits, or rarely by 2 longitudinal slits. 

 Hypogynous disk very small or none. Ovary usually with as many cells as corolla- 

 lobes, rarely more or fewer (3 or 2), the cells with 1 or several ovules attached to 

 the axial placentas. Fruit either capsidar, or succulent and indehiscent. Albumen 

 fleshy. Embryo straight, often small. Shrubs or small trees, terrestrial or epiphytic, 

 with simple, usually alternating pcnninerved or 3-nerved leaves. Flowers solitary and 

 axillary, in short clusters or heads, or in terminal racemes or corymbs. 



ERICIE^. 

 Corolla deciduous or persistent. Fruit a capsule. 



■•" Capsule loeulicidally o-6-ralced {Aiidroinedica-). 



GAULTnEKiA, Linnaus. 



Calyx 2-bracted at the base. Corolla urccolate, the rcvolute limb 5-cleft. 

 Stamens 10. Anthers 2-cleft, the cells terminating in 2 awns. Hypogynous scales 

 10, usually united at the base. Calyx fleshy or succulent in fruit. 



G. prxcTATA, Bl. vars. /3 and 7 in the ilartaban hills at 6000 to 7000 feet. 



The forms here brought together vary greatly in the length of the petiole, the 

 pubescence of the corolla inside, size of plant, etc., and require further study. 



