Gaultheria. | ERICACER. 405 
fruit is ripe, and occasionally the capsule may be slightly succulent, thus break- 
ing down the distinction between Pernettya and Gaultheria. One of the species 
extends to Tasmania, the remainder are endemic. 
* Leaves alternate. Flowers axillary, the tips of the branches sometimes 
forming leafy racemes 
Stems erect or prostrate. Leaves very variable, orbicular 
tolinear-oblong .. He Ve, 3 e 
Stems slender, flexuous, often intertwined. Leaves linear- 
lanceolate .. <5 a Be My; .. 2. G. perplexa. 
1. G. antipoda. 
** Leaves alternate. Flowers in axillary and terminal racemes. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate to broad-oblong ae -< o G. 7Upestris. 
Leaves ovate oblong, cordate at the base re .. 4. G. fagifolia. 
*** Leaves opposite. Flowers in axillary and terminal often compound 
racemes. 
Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, cordate at the base, sessile.. 5. G. oppositifolia. 
1. G. antipoda, forst. Prodr. n. 196.—An erect or prostrate 
much or sparingly branched rigid shrub, very variable in size and 
habit, on the mountains frequently only a few inches high, in 
lowland situations 2-4ft. or more. Branches stout, sometimes 
glabrous, but usually more or less clothed with blackish or yellow- 
brown bristles intermixed with a short and fine white pubescence. 
Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, variable in size, in large-leaved 
forms 4-2in., in dwarfed mountain states 4-lin., orbicular or 
broadly oblong to oblong-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate; obtuse or 
acute, bluntly serrate, very thick and coriaceous, conspicuously 
veined, glabrous except the petioles, which are hispid-pubescent. 
Flowers small, white or red, axillary and solitary, often crowded 
at the ends of the branches, which thus form leafy racemes ; 
peduncles short, curved, bracteolate, pubescent. Calyx 5- or 
rarely 6-lobed; lobes ovate-oblong, acute. Corolla ;4—tin. long. 
Capsule usually included in the enlarged and succulent calyx-lobes, 
forming a red or white globose berry-like fruit $in. diam., but 
frequently the lobes remain dry and unaltered.—A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. 
Zel. 211, t. 28; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 417; Raoul, Choix, 44; Hook. 
f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 161; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 174. 
Var. erecta.—Hrect, much branched. Leaves large, 4-3in., broadly ob- 
long or orbicular.—G. epiphyta, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii. (1890) 474. 
Var. fluviatilis, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 161.—Erect, virgately branched. 
Leaves large, 4-2 in., oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate. Flowers small, almost 
racemed, on longer and more slender pedicels.—G. fluviatilis, A. Cunn. Precur. 
n. 419. 
Var. depressa, Hook. f. l.c.—Depressed or prostrate ; branches creeping and 
rooting at the base, clothed with fulvous bristles. Leaves +-4in., orbicular to 
elliptical or oblong. Flowers axillary. Berry large, 3-3 in. diam.—F'l. Tasm. i. 
241, t. 73a. G. depressa, Hook. f. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. (1847) 267. 
