460 LXXXII. ERICACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Cassiope. 



2. C. selag-inoides, H.f. Sf T. in Hook. Keiv Journ. vii. (1855) 126, t. 

 4 ; leaves - in. elliptic-oblong, pedicels -! in. woolly. 



ALPINE SIKKIM ; alt. 10-13,000 ft. ; Lachen, J. D. H. ; Jongri, C. B. Clarke. 



Closely allied to C. fastigiata and hardly to be diagnosed by any technical cha- 

 racter ; but readily distinguishable by its much more slender stems and more elongate 

 pedicels. 



4. XiEUCOTHOE, D. Don. 



Glabrous shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled, oblong or lanceolate. Racemes 

 axillary and solitary or terminal and corymbose ; pedicels bracteate and 1-2- 

 bracteolate. Calyx 5-fid or -partite ; segments open or imbricate in bud. 

 Corolla urceolate, 5-fid, white. Stamens 10 ; anthers oblong, not horned on the 

 back, sometimes aristate at the apex. Ovary 5-celled ; style cylindric, stigma 

 simple; ovules many. Capsule depressed-globose, loculicidally 5-valved. 

 Seeds many, compressed, narrowly winged ; testa laxly reticulate. Species 7, 

 North American, with 1 Japanese, 1 Himalayan. 



Zi. Griffithiana, Clarke ; leaves lanceolate acuminate at both ends 

 subentire coriaceous, calyx-teeth triangular. Gaultheria sp., Griff. Itin. Notes, 

 138, n. 606 Pieris Griffithiana, Hook.f. in Herb. 



BHOTAN ; towards Sanah, alt. 6800 ft., Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3485). 



A shrub ; with lax, flexuose, pendent branches, and black-green leaves (Griffith). 

 Griffith's examples (in late fruit) are altogether glabrous. Leaves 5$ by If in., some- 

 times almost caudate-acuminate, entire or minutely acutely serrulate upwards, 

 punctate beneath ; petiole ^ in. Racemes 3-5 in., axillary and corymbose at the ends 

 of the branches, dense ; pedicels in. Calyx-teeth iV~T5 in., subobtuse, united at the 

 base. Fruit f in. diam., depressed-globose, glabrous. Seeds -^ in. diam., orbicular, 

 much compressed, outer coat white, margined by closely-placed long glistening scale- 

 like papillae. Though the flowers are unknown, this plant (from the capsule and 

 seeds) can belong to no known genus except Leucothoe. 



5. FIERIS, D. Don. 



Trees or shrubs ; branches terete. Leaves alternate, petioled, persistent, 

 entire or serrulate. Racemes axillary or panicled at the ends of the branches ; 

 pedicels bracteate and 1-2-bracteolate. Calyx 5-fid or -partite ; segments open 

 or valvate in the bud. Corolla ovoid ; lobes 5, short, recurved. Stamens 10 ; 

 filament with 2 horns divaricate from its apex (0 in P. villosd) ; anther-cells 

 ovoid, truncate. Ovary globose, 5-celled ; style cylindric, stigma capitellate ; 

 ovules very many in each cell. Capsule globose, loculicidally 5-valved. Seeds 

 many, linear-oblong, falcate, not winged ; testa loose. Species 10 ; Himalaya, 

 Birma, Japan and N.E. America. 



1. P. ovalifolia, D. Don in Edirib, Phil, Journ. xvii. (1834) 159 ; leaves 

 ovate or elliptic acute entire, calyx-teeth triangular-lanceolate, corolla pubescent 

 without, filament 2-horned at the apex. DC. Prodr. vii. 599 ; Loud. Arb. Brit. 

 570, fig. 1070. Andromeda ovalifolia, Watt. Cat. 763 and in Asiat. Research, xiii. 

 391, with fig.; Don Prodr. 148; Wight Ic. t. 1199; Cleghom in Agri-Hort. 

 Soc. Calc. Journ. xvi. 260, with Jig. ; Brand. For. Fl. 280 ; Kurz in Journ. As. 

 Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 216 and For. Fl. ii. 92. A. elliptica, Sieb. # Zucc. Fl. Jap. 

 Fam. Nat.ii. 126. Thibaudia, Griff. Ic. PL Asiat. t, 514, 



TEMPEBATB HIMALAYA; alt. 3-8000 ft., from Kashmir to Bhotan, common. 

 KHASIA MTS. ; alt. 3-5000 ft., common. BRITISH BIRMA. DISTRIB. Japan. 



A tree, 20-40 ft, or shrub. Leaves 3-7 by 1-4 in., rounded at the base, glabrous 

 or pilose beneath ; petiole - in. Racemes 4-!0 in., simple, rarely (by the suppression 

 of leaves towards the ends of the branches) appearing panicled, more or less pubes- 



