Pieris.~\ LXXXII. ERICACEAE. (C. B. Clarke.) 461 



cent ; pedicels |- in. ; bracts | in., lanceolate or linear. Calyx-teeth ^ -| in., connate 

 at the base. Corolla ^- in., elongate-ovoid, white. Capsule | in. diam., globose, 

 glabrous. Seeds small, linear-oblong. 



VAB. lancKolata ; leaves narrower cuneate or sometimes almost acuminate at the 

 base. P. lanceolata, D. Don in Edinb. Phil. Journ. xvii. (1834) 159 ; DC. Prodr. vii. 

 599. Andromeda lanceolata, Wall, in Asiat. Research, xiii. 390, with jig. ; Wight Ic. 

 t. 1198. A. squamulosa, D. Don. Prodr. 149. Himalaya and Khasia. 



2. P. villosa, Hook. f. ms. ; leaves elliptic subobtuse entire villous 

 "beneath, calyx-teeth narrowly lanceolate, corolla pubescent without, filaments 

 without horns at the apex. Andromeda villosa, Wall. Cat. 762. 



ALPINK HIMALAYA; GURWHAL ; alt. 10,000 ft., near Rogila, Strach. $ Winterb. 

 NIPAL; Wallich. SIKKIM; alt. 10-13,000 ft., Lachen and Tonglo, J. D. H.; Yakla, 

 C. B. Clarke. 



A small tree, closely resembling P. ovalifolia in leaves, flowers and fruit. The 

 leaves are hardly more villous beneath than in some forms of P. ovalifolia ; the calyx- 

 teeth are very narrow downwards, only shortly connate ; the corolla is rather wider ; 

 but it is definitely separated by the absence of horns at the apex of the filament. 



3. P. formosa, D. Don in Edinb. Phil. Journ. xvii. (1834) 159 ; leaves 

 lanceolate serrate glabrous, racemes panicled, calyx-teeth broadly lanceolate, 

 corolla scarcely pubescent without. DC. Prodr. vii. 599. Andromeda formosa, 

 Wall. Cat. 761 and in Asiat. Research, xiii. 395 ; Don Prodr. 149.; Wight Ic. t. 

 1200; Brand. For. Fl. 280. Gaultheria sp., Griff. Itin. Notes, 125 (n. 430), 

 and Ic. PL Asiat. t. 517. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA from NIPAL to BHOTAN; alt. 6-10,000 ft., Wallich, Griffith, 

 J. D. H., &c. ASSAM ; Ghombunda Hills, Simons. 



An evergreen, small, glabrous tree, 12 ft. Leaves 4 by 1-1 j in , acuminate, 

 attenuated at base; petiole |- in. Racemes 2-4 in. ; pedicels -|- in. ; bracts in., 

 linear-oblong, caducous. Calyx-teeth ^- in., acute, very coriaceous, valvate in bud. 

 Corolla j by in. ovoid, white. Filaments with 2 horns at the apex. Capsule |- 

 in. diam., ovoid-globose, glabrous. Seeds many, linear-fusiform, subtriquetrous, testa 

 very lax. 



6. ENK.XANTHUS, Lour. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves petioled, entire or serrulate. Floivers ter- 

 minal, umbelled or subcorymbose, pendulous or cernuous. Calyx free, 5-lobed. 

 Corolla broadly campanulate ; lobes 5, short, imbricated in bud, entire or 

 laciniate. Stamens 10 ; anthers oblong, cells aristate on the back, dehiscing by 

 very short slits in front. Ovary ovoid, 5-celled; style columnar, stigma simple; 

 placentas pendent from the upper inner angles of the cells, many-ovuled. 

 Capsule ovoid or oblong, woody or coriaceous, 5-celled, loculicidally 5-valved. 

 Seeds few perfect (and often many imperfect) in each cell ; testa crisped, mem- 

 branous. Species 5 ; E. Himalaya, China, Japan. 



E. himalaicus, H. f. 8r T. in Hook. Kew Journ. vii. (1855) 126, t. 

 3 ; leaves ovate or elliptic serrulate, pedicels umbelled, corolla widely campanu- 

 late lobes entire, capsules cernuous. Bot. Mag. t. 6460. Rhodoracese, Griff. 

 Itin. Notes, 148, n. 717. Rhodora deflexa, Griff. Itin. Notes, 187, n. 969. 



EAST NIPAL, SIKKIM and BHOTAN, alt. 8-11,000 ft., Griffith, J. D. H., &c. 



A small tree, sometimes 20 ft., or a bush. Leaves mostly in terminal clusters, 



not gibbous, red-orange. Anther-cells oblong, each awned. Capsule \ in. diam., 

 globose, somewhat pentagonal, glabrous. Seeds large, in., ellipsoid, subtrigonous ; 

 testa very lax crisped and honeycombed. 



