Gaultheria Schultesii is a graceful shrub sometimes 
reaching the height of 0.7 meter and generally growing 
in rocky areas. ‘The branches are white-puberulent and 
bear scattered gland-hairs. On the main stem the leaves 
are almost round or occasionally broadly ovate and 1.5—-2 
cm. long; on the flowering branches the leaves are oblong 
to oval, 1-3 em. long and 0.6—1 em. wide, basally sub- 
cordate to truneate (rarely obtuse) and apically obtuse 
(rarely acutish). he upper surface of the leaves is gla- 
brous except for a minute puberulence on the veins; the 
lower surface is punctate, the punctations representing 
the bases of early deciduous hairs; the margin is minutely 
glandular-serrate. ‘The flowers are solitary in the axils at 
the ends of the branches, their pedicels white-puberulent 
and sparsely glandular-pubescent. The corolla is globose- 
urceolate and pink or red in color, hirsute, about 7 mm. 
long and apically contracted. Except for the ciliated 
margin, the 5-lobed calyx is glabrous. There are ten sta- 
mens, the filaments are pubescent and about 2.5 mm. 
long, basally dilated and subcarnose; the anthers are 
about 1.5 mm. long and bear four awns. The ovary is 
puberulent at anthesis. From material other than the 
type, it would appear that the mature fruit is black- 
purple at maturity and gaultherioid in structure. 
Mexico: Oaxaca, District of Ixtlin, Cerro Cuasimulco near San 
Pedro Yolox, long. 96°25’, lat. 17°44’, alt. 2600-2700 m., June 24, 
1939, Richard Evans Schultes 678 (Tyrer in Herb. N.Y. Bot. Gard.); 
District of Villa Alta, half way to the summit of Cerro Zempoaltepetl, 
long. 96°04’, lat. 17°10’, alt. 2500-2800 m., May 25, 1939, Richard 
Evans Schultes 517 (Keon. Herb. Oakes Ames No. 6116; Herb. N.Y. 
Bot. Gard.); District of Villa Alta, at the summit of Cerro Zempoal- 
tepetl, February 19-27, 1937, W.H.Camp 2659, sheet II pars (Herb. 
N.Y. Bot. Gard.). 
In connection with the description of Gaultheria Schul- 
tes, Dr. Camp writes: ‘‘Gaultheria Schultesi is, like 
many others of this group, subject to a certain variability 
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