Victorian Plants. 375 



ERICACEAE. 



OAT7LTHERIA. 



1647. Fruit-calyx carnulent, white. 



Alpine or subalpine, erect, finally tall, much beset with 

 somewhat reddish hairlets ; leaves rather large, from 

 elliptic- to narrow-lanceolar, serrulated ; racemes mostly 

 terminal ; bracts small ; corolla white ; fruit compara- 

 tively large, depressed -globular. G. hispida. 



WITTSTEINIA. 



1648. Corolla green-yellowish. 



Subalpine ; leaves scattered, rather large, mostly from 

 almost elliptic to ovate, somewhat distantly denticulated 

 or indented, glabrous, paler beneath ; flowers axillary, 

 solitary or two together ; lobes of the calyx conspicuous ; 

 corolla rather large, sometimes slightly reddish ; stamens 

 finally somewhat emerging ; anthers longitudinally de- 

 hiscent ; style elongated ; ovulary two- or three-celled ; 

 fruit almost globular, greenish- or reddish-white outside ; 

 seeds few or several. Figure 109. W. vacciniacea. 



CONVOZ.VULACEAE. 



CUSCTJTA. 



1649. Stalklets shorter than the flowers. 



Stems and branches thread-like, yellowish ; flowers Usually 

 in clusters, almost without stalklets, glandular-dotted; 

 corolla transparent, very turgid, contracted towards the 

 summit, with five scale-like fringy ciliolated appendages 

 below the stamens ; styles two ; stigmas blunt ; fruit 

 depressed-globular. "Dodder." C. Australis. 



Stalklets longer than the flowers. 



Stems and branches thread-like, yellowish ; corolla trans- 

 parent, almost bell-shaped, with five scale-like fringy 

 ciliolated appendages below the stamens ; styles two ; 

 stigmas blunt ; fruit almost globular. "Dodder." 



C. Tasmanica. 



CONVOLVULUS. 



1650. Bracteoles minute, distant from the calyx. 



Dwarf, but perennial, often beset with hairlets ; leaves from 

 cordate-arrowshaped to Ovate-lanceolar or some linear, 

 their basal lobes either diverging or obliterated ; lateral 

 lobes present .or oftener absent; flowers rather small, 

 axillary, solitary, conspicuously stalked ; corolla pink 

 or pale ; fruit completely two-celled. C. erubescens. 



