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ARCTOSTAPHYLOS ERICACE 417 
‘GAULTHERIA 
obovate, obtuse or acutish, usually abruptly contracted below to a slender 
petiole, not at all cuspidate, glabrous,"dark green both sides: bracts acu- 
minate-lanceolate, green and glandular: pedicels shorter than the bracts, 
glabrous: filaments tomentose: ovary glabrous. ‘Top of the Siskiyou 
Mountains and southward. 
A. bracteata. Strictly branched from the base, 4-6 feet high, with 
tomentose branchlets: leaves oblong, obtuse, obscurely cuspidate, minutely 
tomentose, contracted below to a flattish petiole: bracts foliaceous, lanceo- 
late: pedicels pubescent, shorter than the bracts: filaments and ovary 
densely hairy. Near Waldo, Josephine Co. Oregon. 
A, strigosa. Erect and loosely branching, 8-10 feet high, with dense- 
ly white-tomentose branchlets: leaves oblong or ovate, obscurely cuspidate, 
usually rounded at the apex, minutely white-tomentose, light green, ab- 
ruptly contracted below toa round petiole: bracts foliaceous, lanceolate, 
strigose pubescent: pedicels shorter than the bracts, pubescent: filaments 
sparingly hairy: ovary densely pubescent. In the mountains of Josephine 
o. Oregon. f 
A. tomentosa Dougl. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1791. Erect, 2-10 feet high 
with tomentose and setose-hispid branchlets : leaves oblong-ovate or oblong, 
acute and cuspidate, densely tomentose, contracted below to a short setose- 
hispid and tomentose petiole: bracts foliaceous, narrowly lanceolate, to- 
mentose and ciliate: pedicels shorter than the bracts, tomentose: filaments 
sparingly hairy: ovary densely tomentose. Rocky and sandy places, Brit. 
olumbia to Oregon and perhaps farther south. 
Tribe ti, Andromedex DC. Prodr, vii, 588. Shrubs with chiefly 
alternate evergreen leaves. Corolla gamopetalous, deciduous. Sta- 
mens twice as many as lobes of the corolla, more or less included. 
Anthers opening at the top. Fruit a loculicidal chiefly 5-celled and 
many-seeded capsule, the valves usually bearing the partitions, which 
separate from the persistent placentiferons axis or columella. 
8 GAULTHERIA L. Gen. n. 551. 
Shrubs or undershrubs with broad evergreen leaves, and-small 
nodding flowers either solitary in the axils, or in axillary racemes. 
Calyx 5-cleft or lobed, persistent. Corolla urn-shaped to cam- 
panulate. Stamens 10: filaments dilated toward the base: anther- 
cells usually 2-pointed or 2-awned, and opening by a pore at the 
top. Capsule 5-celled, depressed and umbilicate, many-seeded, 
enclosed at maturity in the calyx, which enlarges and becomes 
fleshy and berry like after the corolla falls. 
_ * Corolla short-campanulate, 5-lobed: filaments glabrous: apex of 
the anthers obscurely 4-pointed. 
_ @. Myrsinites Hook. Fl. ii, 35, t. 129. Cespitose-procumbent or de- 
pressed, glabrous, the flowering branches 1-5 inches long: leaves oval or 
rounded, mostly only half-inch long: pedicels solitary in the axiles, very 
short, 3-5-bracteolate: corolla depressed-campanulate, little surpassing the 
calyx: fruit scarlet,:2-3 lines in diameter.. In forests on the high moun- 
tains, Washington to California and the Rocky Mountains. 
‘@. ovatifolia Gray Proc. Am. Acad. xix, 84. Depressed-trailing with 
ascending branches, with some at length rusty hairs, at least on the calyx: 
leaves broadly ovate, or even :subcordate, the largest an inch and a half 
long, serrulate, dark green and shining; corolla campanulate, twice the 
