Agauria.'] lxxvi. ERiCACEiB (Oliver). 483 



1. AGAURIA, Hook. f. (Leucothois sect, ex parte, DC. Prod. vii. 

 602) ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 586. 



Calyx free, persistent, deeply 5-fid. Corolla tubular-nrceolate, with 

 5 short ovate teeth. Stamens 10, hypogynous or very slightly adnate 

 to base of corolla ; filaments subulate- filiform, pilose ; anthers dehiscing 

 by 2 rather broad slightly oblique pores. Ovary 5-celled; style about 

 equalling the corolla ; ovules indefinite, ascending from a basal pla- 

 centa. Capsule loculicidally 5-valved, without a central persistent 

 axis. — Small trees or shrubs, glabrous in our species, with alternate 

 oval or oblong-lanceolate acute coriaceous petiolate leaves and flowers 

 in unilateral axillary racemes, often clustered at the extremities. 

 . A small genus confined to Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands. 



1. A. salioifolla, Hook. fil. I.e. p. 586, var. pyrifolia. Tree of 

 15-25 ft. Leaves 2^-3 in. long, ^— | in. broad ; petiole usually about 

 ^ in. long. Racemes shorter than or overtopping the upper leaves ; 

 flowers ' red brown.' — Leucothoe angustifolia (mistake for salicifolia), 

 DC. var. pyrifolia, Hook. fil. in Joum. Linn. Soc. vi. 15 and vii. 205. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons Mountains, 4-9,000 ft., and Clarence Peak, Fernando 

 Po, 8,500 ft., Mann ! 



Occurs also in the Mascarene Islands. 



2. ERICA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 590. 



Calyx deeply 4- fid or 4-partite, persistent. Corolla marcescent, 

 campanulate or suburceolate in our species; teeth ovate-rotundate. 

 Stamens 8, hypogynous, free ; filaments glabrous ; anthers dehiscing by 

 large oblique pores, with or without appendages. Ovary 4-celled, with 

 indefinite ovules in our species. Capsule globose, loculicidally 4- 

 valved ; valves separating more or less from the axis. — Wiry shrubs 

 with short needle-like or narrow-linear usually verticillate leaves. 

 Flowers pedicellate, racemose or variously clustered. 



A very large genus of the Western continents of the Old World, most numerous 

 in species at the Cape of Good Hope. 



1. £. arborea, Linn.; DC. Prod. vii. 690. Shrub of 5-6 ft. 

 (occasionally 50 ft. in Madeira, Lowe) ; extremities shortly pubescent- 

 tomentose with intermingled short patent minutely barbellate hairs. 

 Leaves narrow-linear, ascending, ^^ in. long, minutely puberulous or 

 glabrate, shortly petiolate. Flowers usually clustered towards the 

 extremities of short lateral branches, often confluent and forming leafy 

 racemes. Calyx deeply 4-fid ; segments elliptical or ovate-elliptical. 

 Corolla 2-4 times longer than the calyx. Anthers included, bifid; 

 cells dehiscing by a very oblique pore, each with a basal ciliolate or 

 erose obtuse membranous appendix from the back. — E. acrophya^ 

 Fresen. in Flora, 1838, p. 604. 



Wile Xiand. Abyssinia, Sekimper f Q. Dillon and Petit ! Buppdl f 

 I do not find the difference in the form of the anther-appendix noted by Fresenius, 

 I.e., to hold good as distinguishing the Abyssinian plant from the South European 

 and Madeiran species. 



