62 Ericacece, [Gaultheria. 



LXXV.— ERICACE.^. 



Shrubs or trees, 1. alt., without stip, fl. regular, bisexual ; 

 cal. not adnate to ov., segm. 5 ; cor. urceolatc or campanulate, 

 lobes 5, stam. 10, hypogynous, distinct, anth. opening by 

 terminal pores or slits; ov. superior, 5- or lo-celled, wiih 

 many ovules in each cell, stigma lobcd; fruit a capsule, 5- 

 valved; seeds numerous, minute, with endosperm. 



A large family, especially of warm temperate regions ; in great abund- 

 ance in S. Africa. Both our species are restricted to upper montane zone. 



Cal. succulent in fruit, including the loculicidal 



capsule I. Gaultheria. 



Cal. inconspicuous ; capsule woody, septifragal . 2. RHODODENDRON. 



I. GAVX.T»Z:ilXA, L. 



Shrub, 1. alt, persistent, fl. rather small, in short dense 

 racemes; cal. free, not adnate to ov. but becoming succulent 

 in fruit, segm. 5 ; cor. urceolate-globose, lobes 5, small ; stam. 

 10, hypogynous, distinct, anth.-cells opening by short slits at 

 apex and produced above into 2 spurs; ov. superior, 5-lobed, 

 5 -celled, with many ovules in each cell, stigma slightly 5- 

 lobed ; fruit a capsule, enclosed in the large succulent cal., 

 5-celled, opening loculicidally from apex; seeds numerous, 

 minute, angled. — Sp. 90 ; 6 in Fl. B. Ind. 



G-. fragrantissima, Wall, in As. Res. xiii. 397 (1820). Wei- 

 ll apuru, S. 



A /uh'oiiicda Jlcxi/osa, Moon Cat. 35. Thw. Enum. 170. C. P. 42. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 457. Wight, Ic. tt. 1195 {G. Lesc/ie?7aulHi) and 1196. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5984 (not good). 



A shrub, usually small, low, and much branched, bark 

 orange-brown, twigs pink, young parts glabrous; 1. numerous, 

 persistent, ih-2}y in., on short stout petioles, oblong-oval or 

 oblong-lanceolate, rounded at base, obtuse, bluntly apiculatc, 

 serrate, glabrous, stiff and coriaceous, venation reticulate, 

 conspicuous, bright green, rather glaucous, and with scattered 

 sunk glands beneath; fl. numerous, rather small, on short 

 drooping ped. with a pair of bractlcts below the fl. and a 

 bract at base, closely placed in dense ptibesccnt axillary 

 racemes much shorter than 1.; cal. white, segm. acute, anth.- 



