272 EPACRIDACEAE, [ Cyathodes. 
High mountains of Hawaii! and E. Maui! from about 4000 up to 8000 ft., where it 
grows at RAR ho covering large tracts of open ground. Leaves generally oblong 
on the Maui pla and obovate on those from Hawaii. From the higher regions of 
both islands, as from the crater of Haleakala, comes plant with spinulose leaves. 
& B.’s no. 430 from the Central plateau of "Hawai, with such lea aves, has a Net oi 
a form T 
4 Ps 
though astringent it is not unpleasant to the taste, and makes a good preserve. The 
species is nearly related to the Tahitian V. cereum, Forst 
. lanceolatum, Gray. — Low decumbent, quite ne Leaves 
se Sadat te, coriaceous, serrate. Calyx-lobes as above 
amps of Lehua makanui, Kauai. — «Has the habit of V. saddens: -wawre) c. 
Orpver XLVI. EPACRIDACEAE. 
Calyx 5-, rarely 4-parted, permanent, Sead ip by two or more bracts 
of the same shape and texture as its lobes. Corolla inferior, gamopetalous, 
e 
2-celled, but opening by a single line along their entire length. Ovary 
sessile, ‘wala girt by 5 distinct or pane scales, baie celled. Seeds 
solitary or indefinite. Style 1; stigma Fruit a drupe, berry or 
capsule. Seeds albuminous, with a cia ae ain yo. — Shrubs 
or small trees with generally alternate entire biridegs confined to Australasia 
and Polynesia. 
. CYATHODES, R. Br. 
Calyx deeply 5- ae ‘Cobelli rt with 5 patent or recurved lobes 
which are valvate in the bud. Stamens 5, adnate below the throat, = 
closed or the anthers only exserted, ne latter affixed at the back. D1 
cup-shaped, 5-toothed. Ovary 5—10-celled, with one pendulous ovule in 
each cell. Fruit a fleshy drupe with a crustaceous 5—10-celled putamen. 
— Leaves striately veined. Flowers axillary, solitary, small, the short 
peduncles imbricate with bracts of the same shape and texture a5 
the calyx lobes. 
A small genus Sietien over Australia, New Zealand, the sand ra Sandwich Islands. 
Leaves glabrous, with most nerves forking; tall shrubs or tre . €. Tameiameine. 
Leaves ciliate at = anarelos, the nervy HW — io only the ‘ 
divi ; low, often trailing shrubs . 2. C. imbricata. 
eo aa Cham. in Linnaea, I, 539. — DC. Prod. VI, oa 
— A much branching shrub, 4—6 ft. high, but in the upper regions 
often a small tree of 10—15 ft. with stiff erect branches. Leaves stiff 
riaceous, erecto-patent, linear or oblong, 4—6“ * 1—2”, on broadish 
pctidine of less than '/2”, acute or somewhat obtuse, shortly mucronate, 
