Elwdodendron.~\ LXXXII. ERICACEAE. (C. B. Clarke.) 475 



A shrub, 4 ft., branchlets scaly. Learns 2|- by f in., base broadly rhomboid, 

 obscurely glandular -punctate above ; petiole in. Pedicels i-| in. ; bracts \ in., 

 ovate, pubescent. Corolla-tube \ in. Stamens 10 or 8; filaments sparsely pilose. 

 Ovary 6-celled, scaly as is the lower portion of the style. Capsule by J in. Seeds 

 oblong ; testa produced into a tail at each end shorter than the seed. 



SPECIES IMPERFECTLY KNOWN. 



44. R. BHOTANICUM, Clarke] leaves oblong or elliptic obtuse with a mucro or 

 acute glabrous sparsely scaly beneath, flowers and fruit unknown. 



BHOTAN ; Sooth. 



Leaves 5 by l in., base cuneate or rhomboid, much resembling those of R. 

 Maddtni but the glands beneath are sparsely scattered. Flower-scales in large ter- 

 minal cones, very much larger than those of R. cinnabarinum or R. Keysii, broadly 

 obovate, glabrous, scarcely scarious towards the margin, but fringed densely with 

 brilliantly white soft hairs; in R. Maddeni the flower-scales have the margins 

 scarious not fringed. These shoots represent possibly the species referred to by Nuttall 

 (in Hook. Kew Journ. v. (1853) 363) as a second variety of R. camclli&florum "with 

 foliage almost as robust as R. Jenkinsii." 



45. R. PARISHII, Clarke ; leaves elliptic narrowed at the base glabrous finely 

 reticulated beneath without glands, petioles with loose ferruginous wool sometimes 

 continued up the midrib beneath. 



MOULMEIN ; Moolee, alt. 6000 ft., Parish, n. 1021. 



Branchlet stout with some ferruginous wool towards the extremity. Leaves 3- by 

 l in., subobtuse with a very short point, of a rich brown colour; petiole - in. 

 Flowers and capsules unknown. 



46. R. LUCTDUM, Nutt. in Hook. Kew Journ. v. (1853) 363 ; shrubby, leaves 

 short-petioled oblong-lanceolate acute shining base cuneate glaucous and scaly be- 

 neath, flowers subsolitary, calyx-lobes somewhat large oblong-ovate obtuse glabrous, 

 capsules ovate acute 5-8-celled. 



Mrs. of BHOTAN ; beyond the Bhorelli, Booth. 



Hardly distingiiishable from R. Jenkinsii by the leaves, though very distinct in 

 the inflorescence, which approaches nearer that of R. camelli&florum. Flowers not seen 

 (Nuttall). 



9. PYROXiA, Linn. 



Perennial, glabrous herbs, with short leafy stems and erect annual simple 

 scapes. Leave* alternate, long-petioled, persistent, entire or nearly so. Flowers 

 in simple racemes, cernuous, white or rose ; pedicels 1-bracteate. Calyx deeply 

 5-lobed, persistent. Petals 5, concave, sessile, deciduous. Stamens 10, hypogy- 

 nous : filaments subulate, glabrous ; anthers incompletely 4-celled, dehiscing by 

 2 terminal pores. Ovary subglobose, 5-celled ; style straight declinateor curved, 

 linear or thickened upwards, top truncate with a 5-lobed stigma ; ovules very 

 many in each cell. Capsule subglobose, depressed, pentagonal, 5-celled, loculf- 

 cidally 5-valved from the base, crowned by the persistent style. Seeds minute ; 

 testa lax, produced at both ends. Species 15, in temperate northern regions. 



P. rotundifolia, Linn. ; leaves orbicular or broadly-ovate or -obovate 

 or elliptic, petiole about equalling the blade, calyx-segments broadly ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, style equalling or longer than the petals declinate, stigmatic 

 lobes erect or spreading. 



NORTH-WESTERN and EASTERN HIMALAYA, and the Khasia Mts. DISTRIB. Europe, 

 N. Asia and N. America. 



Glabrous. Leaves 1-2 in. diam., narrowed into the petiole, quite or nearly entire, 

 coriaceous, obtuse or subacute. Scape 6-8 in. ; raceme many-fld. Stamens ascending, 



