34 ERICACE^. Leucothoc. 



less : leaves coriaceous and evergreen : bractlets at or near the base of the pedi- 

 cels ; these articulated with the flower. 



* (Nearest Gauliheria.) Racemes dense and spike-like, sessile in the axils of persistent leaves of 

 the former season, developing in spring, at tirst resembling catkins; the ovate concave scaly 

 persistent bracts being imbricated, little shorter than the pedicels : filaments minutely scabrous, 

 nearly straight: anther-cells obscurely or manifestly binuicronate : stigma large, depressed-capi- 

 tate and 5-rayed. Glabrous shrubs with green erect and recurving branches, and serrulate leaves 

 bright green and shining above and loosely pinnately veined. 



L. axillaris, Don. Stems 2 to 4 feet high; often minutely pubescent when young: 

 leaves from oval to oblong-lanceolate (2 to 4 inches long), mostly with an abrupt acumi- 

 nation, serrulate mainly toward the apex with cartilaginous or somewhat spinulose teeth : 

 jjctioles very short: sepals broadly ovate and obviously imbricated. — Gray, Man. 1. c. ; 

 Chapm. Fl. 261 ; also DC. Prodr. vii. 001, excl. var. & habitat. Andromeda axillaris, Lam. 

 Diet. i. 157; Ait. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 69; Duham. Arb. ed. nov. i. t. 39. — Low grounds, Vir- 

 ginia to Horida and Alabama toward the coast ; not in the mountains. 



L. Catesbsei, Gray. Shoots longer (.3 to 6 feet) and more recurving, glabrous: leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate and tapering into a long and slender acumination, serruhite 

 througiiout with appressed strongly ciliate-spinulose teeth (4 to 7 inches long), conspicu- 

 ously petioled : sepals ovate-oblong, not overlapping in the flower: capsule chartaccous, 

 depressed, strongly lobed : seeds oval, flat, with a loose cellular-reticulated coat much 

 larger than the nucleus. — Man. ed. 2, 252, & ed. 5, 294. Andromeda Caleslxci, Walt. Car. 

 \?>i; Willd. Spec. ii. 613 (excl. syn. Catesb.) ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 19.55; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 

 1320. A. Walteri, Willd. Enum. 453, A. lanceolala, Desf. ? A. a.rilluris, Michx. Fl. i. 2-53, 

 chiefly. A. axillaris, var. loncjifolia, Pursh, Fl. i. 293; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2357, hardly Lam. 

 A. sjiiiiulosa, Pursh, 1. c, excl. habitat. Leitcol/ioe spinulosa, Don, 1. c. ; DC. 1. c, excl. syn. 

 Duham, &c. — Moist banks of streams, Virginia to Georgia, along and near the mountains. 

 (Piu-sh characterized the two species, but transposed the habitats.) Flowers later than the 

 other, and with the unpleasant odor of chestnut-blossoms. 



* * Kacemes loose and few-flowered in the a.xils of the persistent reticulated leaves: bracts and 

 bractlets minute: pedicels slender: filaments pubescent, sigmoid-curved toward the apex (in the 

 manner of Brazilian species) : anthers nearly pointless : stigma small. 



L. acuminata, Don, (Pipe-\vood.) Shrub 3 to 12 feet high, with spreading hollow 

 branches, glabrous, or puberulent when young: leaves ovate-lanceolate, gradually acu- 

 minate, with callous entire or obscurely serrulate margin, rounded at base, short-pctioled ; 

 the midrib only prominent; the veins and veinlets all minute and finely reticidated: 

 racemes shorter tlian the leaves : calyx very short and small at base of the cylindraceous 

 (4 or 5 lines long) corolla: capsule coriaceous: seeds oblong, pendulous. — Andromeda 

 ariiminain, Ait. 1. c. ; Smith, Exot. Bot. t. 89. A. hirida, Jacq. Ic. liar. i. t. 79. A. popidi- 

 folia, Lam. Diet. i. 159. A. reticulata, W^lt. Car. 137. A. lanrina, Michx. Fl. i. 2-53. — 

 Sandy swamps, coast of S. Carolina to E. Florida. 



*** Racemes clustered in a terminal naked panicle: bracts and bractlets small and scarious or 

 whitish: pedicels short : filaments glabrous, slender, straight : anther-cells 2-mucronate: stigma 

 rather small, 5-rayed. 



L. Davisiee, Torr. Shrub 3 to 5 feet high, very leafy, nearly glabrous: leaves oblong, 



obtuse at botli ends, obscurely serrulate, bright green (1 to 3 inches long) : racemes nearly 

 sessile, slender, many-flowered: flowers recurved-pendulous (3 lines long) : divisions of the 

 deeply parted whitish calyx ovate-oblong, obtuse, not overlapping in the flower: seeds 

 pendulous, oblong, flat, scobiform, the thin reticulated coat being much larger than the 

 oval nucleus, and its margin densely fimbriate with clavate-oblong hair-like cells. — Gray, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 400, & Bot. Calif, i. 455; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 0247. — California, in 

 the Sierra Nevada, Plumas and Nevada Counties, Lohb, Miss N. J. Davis, &c. 



§ 2. EuBOTRYS. Calyx bibracteolate ; the persistent bractlets and distinct 

 se]>als firm-chart;iceous, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, much imbricated, 

 (whitish or reddish) : corolla cylindraceous: filaments glabrous, straight: anther- 

 cells 1-2-awned from the apex : stigma merely truncate : placenta? short and por- 

 rect : leaves membranaceous and deciduous : flowers in secund spike-like racemes, 

 which mostly terminate the branchlets, formed early in summer, remaining naked 



