142 



Lxvi. ERICACE,^^. [Gai(li/ima. 



mucli smaller than the others. Bracts several, at tlie base of the pedicels. 

 the uppermost about 1 line long. Calyx at the time of flowering fully half 

 a§ long as the corolla. Corolla m-ceolate, about 2 lines long. Stigma pel- 

 tate, 5-lobed. Fruiting-calyx berry-like, red, more or less enclosing the 

 fruit. 



Tasmania. Summits of Ben Lomond, the "Western mountains, etc., Gunn. In the 

 tigure above quoted, by a mistake of the artist, the anthers are represented as having oulv 1 

 uistead of 2 awns to each cell. 



3. G. antipoda, ForsL; DO. Prod. vii. 594. The Tasmanian form of 

 tins very vanable species is a small, depressed or prostrate shrub, with the 

 branclit;s and sometimes also the margins of the leaves, hispid with stiff 

 hairs or bust es. Leaves shortly petiolate, broadly ovate or orbicular, cremi- 

 late, d to 4 Imes long. Flowers solitary, on veiy short, axillary peduncles, 

 winch, however, bear several small bracts. Fruit enclosed in a beny-like 

 calyx, much larger than that of G. Jdsp id a. —Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 241. t. 73A; 

 6r. dep-essa, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 267. 



,n7nfl,"'!'''^u ^"'"^'ts.of Monnt Oljmpus, Ben Lomond, Mount Lapcyrouse, etc., Ounn 

 a fl-n; ]■ ^l 'P*^*"""^ '^ common in New Zealand, where it is usually a bushy strnb 

 attaining 4 or 5 ft., as figured by A. liich. M. N. Zel. t. 28 ; but on the higher moniitaim 



iLl ,n- '^ sometimes reduced to the small, prostrate state in which it is found in 



Order LXYII. EPACRIDEiB. 



Calyx of 5 rarelv 4 distinct sepals, much imbricate iu the bud. Corolla 

 regular, with a cylindrical, urceolate or campaimlate tube, and 5 rarely 4 

 lobes, va vate or variously imbricate in the bud, more or less spreading or 

 raie y cohenng in a calyptra, or rarely the whole corolla separating into dis- 

 tict petals. Stamens as many as corolla-lobes or rarely fewer, hypogynous, 



Zt n °' "'"'? °' /''' "^""^' ^° (^"^^rted in) the corolla-tube j anthers 



versatile or rarely adriate, 1-celled (more or less perfectly 2-ccUed before 



openmg), opening by a single longitudinal slit in 2 valves/leaving no longi- 



i 'i ^T'P''"*^"* <^[ °"b; a thiu and slightly prominent one. Hypogyuous 



disk annular or cup-shaped, entire, 5-lobed or consisting of 5 distinct scales, 



mrely deficient. Ovary superior, with 5 or sometimes fewer, rarely 6 to 10 



^ P.nf» ^oli.tary m each eel! and pendulous, or several in each cell, the 



P;;t * P?"'- "f ^™'? "'' ''^^' immediately under tlie attachment of the 



se • ed in i TP ? ^""'l "^^^"J^'i. terminal in the uniovulate genera, in- 



re erenip tn f^ ' ^"^^^^' depression of the ovary so as to be lateral (with 



te minal sm.^' TTf^ °'' '\™°'^ ^"^^' ^^ "^'^ pkiriovulate genera; stigma 



lehi entTnl ''P^ ^^'r "^f"'^^' ^"^ sometimes sligldly lobed. Fruit in- 



andW. lipid 11 Tv' ^''' .J^-^Paceous in the uniovulate genera, capsular. 



rarelv aS^I^^ f '''"\ ^" '^' pluriovulate ones. Seeds with a thin, 



albumen el n"''T'' ''t ' ^°^^^^'« '^^^ZK much shorter than the 



he si eT. Z "^^ '"' '^' '^'^''^' "^^t the hilum.-Shrubs or rarely 



r 'id' entbt nV f **V?^ ^'^^'^ °PP«^'te, often crowded or imbricate, 



^^d trL \ 7^ denticulate, with several longitudinal, simple or 



foiked nerves, sometimes prommeut underneath, somelimea ve^y fine and 





