VACCINIACEiE. 25/ 



or three at intervals of J^ to 2 inches, subsessile ; the top 



flower opening first. Bracts linear % inch. Calyx-tube 



conical % inch ; sepals linear % inch. Corolla blue 



% inch, very deeply divided into five oblong rounded 



lobes. Anthers narrow, basifixed on slender filaments 



with broad bases. Ovary enclosed in the ten-ribbed 



calyx-tube, five-celled : placentas stalked from the inner 



angles and bearing numerous ovules, t. 177. Wight 



Sp. Nilg. t. 127 ; Ic. t. II79 ; 111. t. 136. 



In the grass of the open downs, flowering from May to 

 September. Pulneys : about and above Kodaikanal abundant. 

 Nilgiris : Dodabetta and the downs. Fyso7i 453, 2138. 

 Bourne 60, 113, 2707, 5207. 



Gen. Dist. Nilgiri, Pulney and Coorg mountains up to 8,000 feet, 

 Khasia, Nepal Sikkim (7,000 feet), Chembi valley, Burma (4,000 feet). 



The opening of the topmost flower first and of the others later, in order 

 from the base, is peculiar. It suggests a condensation in time of what one 

 finds with some garden Campanulas, where after the first lot of flowers 

 have withered, or perhaps before the top one which naturally opens last, 

 a second crop appears in twos and threes at the nodes of the older, fallen, 

 ones. If these latter (i.e., the first set) failed to appear at all, except the top 

 one, we should get what we find in C. fulgens. 



VACCINIACE/E. 



Shrubs and trees with alternate, exstipulate, toothed, 

 leaves, and regular monopetalous flowers characterised 

 by their great regularity, all parts being in fives ; five 

 sepals, ^NQ^ corolla lobes, ten stamens, five cells to the 

 ovary ; by the stamens being quite free of the corolla 

 (unusual in monopetalce) ; by the anthers opening by pores 

 sometimes at the end of tubular extensions ; and by the 

 inferior ovary (distinction from ERICACE^). 



Species 350, in temperate and cold regions. 



VACCINIUM. F.B.I. 81 III. 



Shrubs and trees with alternate ovate or lanceolate 



leaves, and small flowers in terminal or axillary racemes 



or bunches. Corolla (in Indian species) egg-shaped, 



with five small teeth. Anthers prolonged upwards in two 



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