118 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 



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VACCINIUM. 



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Calyx adherent, limb 4-5-lobed. Corolla tubular, 4-5-cleft. Stamens 8-10, epig-ynous, 

 anthers adnata, 2-celIed, often furnished with 2 bristles on the back, the cells ending in a tube 

 open at the apex. Ovary 4-5-celled, placentas ascending, usually bearing the ovules on the 

 margin. Berry 4-5-celIed, often spuriously 10-celled, through the adherence of the walls to the 

 thickened placentas. Seed several in each cell, testa coriaceous or somewhat bony : albumen 

 fleshy: embryo orthotropous, radicle next the hilum. Trees, shrubs, &c. 



According to this character, it is of no moment whether the lobes of the calyx are large 

 or small, whether the corolla is long or short, thick or thin: the anthers may or may not be 

 bristled, but are always expected to have the cells more or less prolonged into tubes, and to 

 have the number of cells of the ovary equal to those of the lobes of the calyx and corolla, 

 with, more or less distinctly, free ascending placentas and a plurality of ovules. Such is the 

 genus racamwrn, as understood by me, when naming the following and several other still un- 

 published species m my Herbarium. 



DuNAL, in his monograph of the order VacciniacecB, retains Jgapetes and Tkibaudia; End- 

 hcher, Miesner and Lindley unite them. Kunth is followed by Miesner, in expressing a doubt 

 M to whether Ceratostema is distinct from Thihaudia, and Hooker states that he "cannot 

 tuHlerstand ^hat are the essential distinguishing marks between them." Among the following 

 ilLt^'r'T >"^%^^,f ¥'J''^ ^y different Botanists to Ceratostema, Agapetes, Thl 

 DeSl« to^lTnt"^ ?.^ Faeam^m. To determine among so many genera it became indis- 

 Lreful di Lil^^^^^^^^ ?/f f'^ "^"^^ ^^'«- After the closest scrutiny and 



severa a kl 111 r ■'"''% °^ f l^^ ^°^^^° 'P''''' ^^ ^y collection, side by side' with 

 from le charts .^ T'"" i "" ^*^ ^"^'"''^ "^^ ^^^«P^' ^ f°""*i ^^ utterly impossible, 

 tZ leLf the rm??n 'd? ""'t.^' p"' T". '\^" °"^ ^^^"« ^«^^«g '^' Asiatic ones, the struc- 

 CeraSna wlZhlf\l^^?^^^^^^ ^""^^' P^^'^^P^' have been all referred to 



forThe r receotbn Lf .T i' ^^^*«"^f' ^^ile Don and Du^al form the genus Jgapetes 

 aiLd by Xaohicd d-,l"l tubular flowers been a constant feature, I might ol that account, 

 essential^eZ l If t'^^^^^^^^^ followed these authors, and, assuming that as its 



therefore, as a geLic c^^^^^^ ^r^'' ^^^'' ^'^'^''•' '^ ^"^^ ^^^"^ ^^Ing the case, and is 



I « the eorollf d^ ibtdTst^-^^^^^^^ eharaLr of Vaceiniu., 



"limbo c'ilyds' iisfjL'Chich t if""" ^^^ceolate or cylindrical. He describes the stamens as 

 "Bacca calyce vestit^.loW ^^ T'^H *^?- ^"^^^" ^«^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^•^"^i^ed, and the fruit 



monospermis^ wWch eS the W ^./''"^^."' ^""'t' P^^^spermis, rarissime 10 locularis loculis 

 opportunity of e^amininf The ova^''' V' T *"^, "P?^^^"^^^ ^« ^^' fr"it of all I have had an 

 either genL The coTJudin'L'Va; 7of"^^^^^^^^^ ^^--^ '<> - ^^^ ^^^-^l^ '' 



1 seed in each being its essentialirdisH-w t-^ ^ .""^ ^^"^^' ^^^ fruit having 10 cells with 



of the 2 genera arf nearly worif-o/^ ^^"^ '^^ ''^'' ^''''^' ^"""^'^ '^^'''^''' 



m each of the 5 cells con^veTts ra^i^-,^,^! rw' ^''^^^'' abortion of all the ovules but 2 

 examination, even that is not necessarv «^ « ? Gaylussacza and, unless care is bestowed in the 

 always presents the appearance of 10 c'eflt 1^/^'^^"'^ f '^'°" ^^ ^ "early mature fruit almost 

 »n examination of tlie ovary wHI show fW K T! '^^i ''' '^^^^ ^^^ I fed nearly certain that 



ovary 

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^^pecie, of ra»«„„ ^.i ^:^y^Z.:C1Z. 



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n n VI Fr\'' '^ *h« character, aptt ffom f "" "^'^^^ '' «^3^' »>"* Judging ^om the really 

 bl wJ' ^'f'^T^' rhibaudiah^Zl iZ dti-'^'^r."^' non-essentikl ones introduced by 



between themselves, and their attachment to l«h^°^^*v°^ "^^'^ ^° *^« ^°^«^ *>f ^^' ^^^'^''^' 



actiment to the base of the corolla. But if that is to be taken 



