162 FLORA OF. NEW ZEALAND. [ Hricee. 
parvis, calyce rarius baccato. Br. Prodr. in not. p. 559. A. Cunn. Prodr. DC. Prodr. v. 1. p. 594. 
Andromeda rupestris, Forst. Prodr. A. Rich. Flora, p. 208. t. 27. Tas. XLII. A. 
Var. B. parvifolia ; foliis parvis late oblongis. Tas. XLII. B. 
Has. Northern Island. On the mountains, Bidwill, Colenso. Middle Island, on the west coast. 
Dusky Bay, Forster, Menzies. Milford Sound, Lyall. Var. B. Nelson, on mountains, Bidwill. Ruahine 
range, Colenso. 
Like the G. antipoda, this is a very variable species, some of the varieties resembling that plant very closely, 
but always easily distinguished by the truly racemose inflorescence. In bud these racemes are seen to form little 
scaly cones in the axils of the leaves or at the ends of the branches, being quite different in origin and nature from 
the racemose ends of the branches of G. antipoda. Stems shrubby, woody, stout, much branched, 6 inches to 2 feet 
high; branchlets smooth or setose, stout. Leaves very thick and coriaceous, shining and reticulated on both surfaces, 
bluntly serrate, sharp-pointed, very variable in size, from 4 inch in var. 8 to 13 inch in Menzies’ Dusky Bay speci- 
mens, no less so in shape, from broadly oblong and blunt to narrow elliptic or linear-lanceolate and acuminate. 
Racemes simple, axillary, and terminal, or compound and paniculate, 3—4 inches long; branches fastigiate or spread- 
ing, usually smooth, pubescent in a specimen from Mount Egmont gathered by Dr. Dieffenbach. Peduncles curved, 
bracteolate at the base. Flowers small. Calyw rarely baccate, but sometimes so, as in some of Dr. Lyall’s Milford 
Sound specimens, and in part of the panicle of var. B, from Mr. Bidwill, while the ripe capsules of the other part of 
the panicle have persistent but not thickened calyces.—PrATE XLII. 4. Fig. 1, ripe fruit and bracts; 2, flower; 
3, calyx, glands, and ovarium ; 4, stamen :—all magnified. B. var. B of the natural size. 
4. Gaultheria Colensoi, Hook. fil.; fruticulus glaberrimus, foliis breve petiolatis ovato-rotundatis sub- 
cordatisve obtusis crenatis concavis crassis, racemis elongatis multifloris. An precedentis var. ? 
Haz. Northern Island. Plains at Taupo and base of Tongariro, Colenso. 
Very closely allied to G. rupestris, and perhaps only a variety of that plant, but the leaves are shorter, rounder, 
especially at the base, where they are almost cordate, 4 inch long, very blunt, thick and coriaceous. Racemes 2-4 
inches long, terminal, many-flowered, quite smooth. Calyx not thickened in my specimens. Flowers as in G. 
rupestris. 
5. Gaultheria fagifolia, Hook. fil. ; fruticosa, ramosa, glaberrima, ramulis setosis, foliis ovato- v. 
oblongo-cordatis creberrime crenulatis v. obtuse serrulatis acutis, racemis terminalibus axillaribusgue, caly- 
cibus immutatis. 
Haz. Northern Island. Motukino, east of Lake Taupo, Colenso. 
This appears a very distinct species from any of the foregoing, of which however I have only two specimens, 
one in flower and one in fruit; it forms a shrub 4-5 feet high. Branches twiggy, setose, running out into racemes 
at the apices, but also bearing axillary racemes. Leaves petiolate, $ inch long, ovate-cordate or oblong-cordate, 
sharp, flat, minutely reticulated, margin finely crenulate. Lateral racemes about as long as the leaves, quite smooth ; 
terminal elongated, many-flowered. The calyx does not enlarge in my fruiting specimen.—Considering how variable 
the preceding species are, it is probable that as copious a suite of this as I have of those would prove this to be 
equally so. The leaves are very similar in form to those of the following species, and resemble those of an evergreen 
Beech, whence the specific name. 
$ e. Leaves opposite. Inflorescence as in $ b. 
6. Gaultheria oppositifolia, Hook. fil.; fruticosa, divaricatim ramosa, glaberrima v. rarius setosa, 
foliis oppositis sessilibus ovatis subacutis basi late cordatis crenulato-dentatis, racemis simplicibus axillaribus 
terminalibusgue et paniculatim ramosis, ramis patentibus multifloris bracteolatis. Tas. XLIIL. 
Var. 8 ; ramulis foliisque subtus setosis. 
