serves adequately to separate it from G. acuminata as 
well as from G. acuminata var. nitida (Benth.) Camp. 
Judging from the glandular pubescence of the inflores- 
cence axis, it would seem that Gau/theria acuminata var. 
Rekoi represents a form somewhat intermediate between 
G. acuminata and the recently described G. Pringlet 
Camp, which is also from the State of Oaxaca. The new 
variety may be distinguished from Gaultheria Pringlei 
by the lack of gland-hairs on its corollas. ‘The prescence 
of these gland-hairs on the corollas is a diagnostic char- 
acter of Gaultheria Pringlei which serves to separate it 
from G. acuminata.” 
The fruits of Gaultheria acuminata var. Rekot are used 
as food by the Mazatec Indians of Huautla de Jiménez, 
who call the plant ya-to-skwa-ree, and its fruit to-shwa. 
Gaultheria Schultesii Camp sp. nov. 
Frutex usque ad 0.7 m. altus, ramulis albido-puberulis 
et sparse glanduloso-pubescentibus. Folia caulis princi- 
palis subrotundata vel late ovata, 1.5-2 cm. longa; folia 
ramorum floriferorum oblonga vel ovalia, 1-8 cm. longa, 
0.6-1 cm. lata, subcoriacea, supra venis albido-puberu- 
lentibus exceptis glabra, subtus punctata, margine ser- 
rulata (serraturis minute glandulosis), petiolo 1-2 mm. 
longo. Flores axillares, solitarii in summo ramulorum 
digesti; pedicellis dense albido-puberulis et sparse gland- 
uloso-pubescentibus, 4-8 mm. longis; bractea albido- 
puberula, margine ciliata; corolla globoso-urceolata, 
rosea, hirsuta, circa 7 mm. longa, apice contracta et 
quinque lobata, lobis cirea 1 mm. longis; calyx quinque- 
lobatus, lobis circa 2 mm. longis, glabris, margine cillatis ; 
stamina decem, filamentis circa 2.5 mm. longis, basi dila- 
tatis et subearnosis, pubescentibus, antheris circa 1.5 mm. 
longis, quadricornutis; ovarium globosum, puberulum ; 
stylus glaber. 
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