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tubular or campanulate, greenish-white or reddish, the mouth with 

 5 spreading or recurved imbricate lobes. Stamens 10, included, attached 

 to the base of the corolla ; anthers produced at the apex into 2 tubes, 

 and often also with 1 or 2 dorsal spurs ; filaments dilated at the base, 

 usually pilose (in some flowers the stamens small and the anthers 

 without appendages). Ovary 5-celled, sometimes 5-lobed ; style cylin- 

 ■dric ; stigma simple ; ovules many in each cell. Gajjsule 5-celled, 

 dehiscing loculicidally from the apex, enveloped in the succulent calyx ; 

 seeds many, minute, sub-globose, angled. — Distbib. Species about 80, 

 mostly American, a few in the mountains of India and Malaya, a few 

 also in Australia and New Zealand. 



Leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, sub-acute .. ..1. G. fragrantissima. 



Leaves broadly ovate, caudate-acuminate . . . . 2. G. leucocarpa. 



1. Gaultheria fragrantissima. Wall, in As. Eesearch. XIII. 397, 

 ■with figure. A shrub; young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, 

 3-angled, glabrous, pale brown when dry. Leaves thickly coriaceous, 

 elliptic or oblong-elliptic, sub-acute, the base cuneate, the edges crenate- 

 serrate ; both surfaces pale brown when dry and dull, strongly reticu- 

 late, the upper always glabrous, the lower with sparse black scales and 

 occasionally a few scattered hairs ; length 1-5 to 2-25 in. ; breadth -75 

 to 1-2 in. ; petioles -15 to -2 in. Racemes axillary, usually longer than 

 the leaves, slender, many-flowered ; pedicels "15 in. long, deflexed, 

 each with a small triangular acute bract at its base and two broader 

 connate ones above its middle. Floiuers -2 in. long. Calyx campanu- 

 late, with 5 deep triangular lobes, puberulous, "05 in. long or less at 

 first, persistent and increasing to -2 in. with age. Corolla -15 in. long, 

 widely tubular, the mouth contracted and with 5 short blunt lobes. 

 Stamens 10 ; anthers elongate, included, the apex with 2 deeply bifid 

 apical horns ; filaments flattened at the base. Fruit depressed-globular, 

 with 5 deep grooves, '15 in. in diam., minutely pubescent, crowned by 

 the long, persistent, slightly clavate, cylindric style, many-seeded. DC. 

 Prod. VII. 593 ; Wall. Cat. 765 ; Wight Ic. 1196 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5984 ; 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 457. G. fragrans, Don Prod. 

 151. G. punctata, Blume Bijdr. 850; DC. I.e. 593; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 1055; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 1877, II. 215, For. 

 PL Burm. II. 92. G. ovalifolia, Wall. Cat. 15^3. G. Leschenaultii, 

 DC. I.e. 593 ; Wight Hi. t. 141c, and Ic. 1195. Andromeda flexxiosa, 

 Moon Cat. PI. Ceyl. 35. A. hatagherensis, Hook. Ic. PI. t. 246. 

 Lcucothoe (?) hatagherensis, DC. I.e. 606. 



Perak, on the summit of Gunong Batu Patch : Wray 879, 1580 ; 

 Scortechini 405 {in part). — Disteib. British India, Ceylon, Sumatra, 

 Java. 



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