GauUheria.'] Lxvi. kkicace^. 141 



fruit and then often succulent. Corolla urceolate ; lobes 5, short, spreading, 

 imbricate in the bud. Stamens 10, hypogynous, included in the corolla- 

 tube; anther-cells opening iu a terminal or oblique foramen, each "nith 3 

 erect awns (4 to the antlier). Ovary 5 -celled, with several ovules in eacli 

 cell; style inserted in a central depression; stigma capitate or peltate. 

 Fruit a globular capsule, opening loculicidally in 5 valves, more or less en- 

 closed in the enlarged usually succulent and berry-like calyx. Seeds small ; 

 embryo cylindrical in the centre of the albumen.— Erect and bushy or low 

 ami creeping shrubs, often hispid with rigid hairs. Leaves penniveined, en- 

 tire_ or toothed. Mowers in simple terminal or axillary racemes, each one 

 pedicellate within a bract and 2 bracteoles, or solitary in the axils of the 

 stem-leaves. 



The genus is chiefly spread over the mouutaia regions of America from the Oregon to 

 Cape Horn and eastward to Brazil, represented by a few species in Japan and the moimtams 

 of tropical Asia, and to the south extending through the Antarctic Islands and New Zea- 

 tad to eastern extratropical Australia. Of the three Australian species, two are endemic, 

 he third is a common New Zealand one. The genns is chiefly distinguished by its herry- 

 UM calyx, the real fruit inside being capsular, but some southern species with the calyi 

 occasionally scarcely enlarged and the capsule more or less succulent, closely connect the 

 genus with Pernethja. 



Erect shruh of 2 to 5 ft. Leaves oblong or lanceolate. Eaccmes ter- 

 minal or axillary with membranous bracts 1- ^- his^^d.a. 



^ittuse or bushy shrub not above 1 ft. Leaves obloug or lanceolate, 

 iovvers axillary, formincr a terminal leafy raceme %. G. lanceolata. 



Mia 1 prostrate or depressed shrub. Leaves orbicular or ovate. Flowers 



axillary 3. G. antijpoda. 



I- G. hispida, 72. Br. Prod. 359. An erect spreading shrub, usually 3 

 w 3 ft. high but attaining 4 or 5 ft., the branches and often also the midrib 

 of the leaves hispid with rigid spreading or appressed hairs. Leaves shortly 

 Petiolate, lanceolate to elliptical-oblong, with obtuse or callous serratures, 1 

 to 2 in. long or rarely more. Tlowers in dense racemes, terminal or m the 

 "Pper axils, shorter than the leaves. Bracts membranous, broad, concave, 1 

 «5 11 lines diameter; bracteoles smaller. Calyx-segments at the time of 

 jowenng acute and not above 1 line long but soon enlarging. Corolla 

 broadly urceolate, about 2 lines long. Truiting-calyx depressed globular, 

 succulent and berry-like, snow-white, surrounding or enclosing the t™it-— 

 JJC- Prod. vii. 594; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 241 ; A. Ricli. Sert. Astrolab. t. 



,, *;. S- "VVaies. Summits of snowy mountains at the head of Bcllenger river, at aa 

 '-evatiou of 4000 ft., C Moore 



Victoria. Ranges' of the" Australian Alps at aQ elevation of 4000 to COOO ft., rarely 

 «t«cendmg to 3000 ft., F. Mueller. 



ta;.. *?°'*''^''- I^crwent river and Jlouut ^TcIliugtoD, R. Brown ; common on the moun- 

 "'13 throughout the island at an elevation of 2000 to 4000 ft., /. D. Hooker. 



■ ^•^' lanceolata, IIooL f. in Hook. Loud. Joum. vi. 267 ; Fl.Tam. 

 I f41- t 72. Stems, from a thick, woody base, difluse or erect and bushy, 

 jot above 1 ft. high, more or less hispid with short stiff hairs or bristles. 

 J^eaves elliptical-oblong or lanceolate, rather acute, with callous serratures, r 

 ^■; "^- long. Flowers on pedicels of 1 to 2 lines, solitary m the upper 

 «'ls, but forming a short, terminal, leafy raceme, the floral leaves usually 



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