270 VACCINIACEAE. [ Vaceinium. 
or adherent to the base of the corolla. Anthers affixed dorsally near 
the base, 2-celled, opening at the top in pores or short oblique slits, and 
generally with awn-like appendages at “ back. Style 1. Ovary 3—10- 
celled ruit a berry. Seeds small, anatropous. Embryo minute, in 
fleshy albumen. — Shrubby pune with alternate simple leaves without 
st®pules. 
1. VACCINIUM, L. 
Calyx 4—5-toothed or lobed, the lobes persistent. Corolla ovoid, cam- 
panulate or shortly tubular, the limb 4—5-cleft or toothed. Stamens 8—1 
Anthers often 2-awned on the back, their cells hana and preloniiel 
into a tube which opens by a pore at the apex 4—-5-celled, with 
several small compressed seeds in each cell. — pues with angular 
branches and alternate toothed leaves. Flowers clustered or single in the 
axils, or in axillary or terminal racemes, white or reddish. 
A large genus, widely distributed over mountainous = boggy regions, chiefly of the 
northern hemisphere, but occurring also in the southern, as well asin tro rea cal mountains. 
In the Hawaiian, as in some other species, . labstivatiedes: which rise from near 
ends of the denies begin with one or more soft and thin scales ahiob “either suddenly 
or graduall into true leaves. From Pres exits of these scales and s caaepeyt 
with them grow eh first flowers, all or esi all sherk the scales are seas and then 
the young shoot often p eofas raceme, while at a ‘ise period, 
when the further developed axis has produe ed t true Tear and the scales have fallen off, 
the flowers stand unsupported at the base of the branch. 
Leaves loose and large, of thin texture; calycine lobes generally 
longer than the tube; anther-cells obtuse e or shortly pointed at 
base 
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ie 1. V. pendulifiorum. 
Leaves crowded and small, coriaceous, reticulate; lobes of calyx n not 
longer than the tube; anther-cells obtus the base 2. V. reticulatum. 
1. V. penduliflorum, Gand. a Voy. Frege. p. 454, tab. 68. — A 
sparingly branched shrub, 3—6 ft. ‘igi: generally growing on the trunks 
of old trees, glabrous throughout, with angular branches, loosely foliose. 
as long as the tube or longer. Corolla 4—5, twice the length of the 
calycine lobes, broad urceolate, shortly 5-toothed, red. Stamens 10,-more 
than half the length of the corolla, the filaments as long as the anthers, 
these obtuse or faintly pointed at the base, shortly 2-awned, running out 
in parallel tubes of the same length as the cells. Style slightly —- 
Berry globose, 4—5” in diameter, 5-celled, dark red, insipid. Se 
numerous, fusiform or ——— triquetrous, with reddish testa. — Dd. 
iflora, Nutt. — V. reticulatum, 8, Wawra, in 
