Hamiltonia.] XLV. RUBIACE.E. 279 



cent outside, anthers more or less exserted, stigma included or ex 

 serted. 



A common but somewhat variable shrub, on rocky dry hills, generally only 

 a few feet high, but attaining in places 8-12 ft. It is known from Behar, the 

 Aravalli hills (Mairwara), and Mount Aboo, the Salt range in the Panjab, and 

 the Himalaya from the Indus to Nepal, ascending to 5000 ft. Fl. Oct.-Dec. 

 Wood small, but in Chamba said to be used for making gunpowder-charcoal. 

 H. mysorensis, W. & A. Prodr. 423, from Mysore and Western India, fl. white, 

 Jan.-March, is closely allied, if not the same species ; the glandular-tipped teeth 

 of calyx-segments, which are supposed to be its specific character, are found 

 equally in specimens from Behar, North- West India, and Mairwara. Graham, 

 Bomb. Cat. 91, asks whether they are identical, and adds they look much like 

 each other. I am inclined to think that farther researches on the spot will show 

 that they are not specifically distinct. 



Leptodermis lanceolata, Wall. ; Jacquem. Voy. Bot. t. 90. Vern. Padera, 

 Kamaon ; is a small shrub with white sessile flowers in bracteate heads, forming 

 large terminal panicles. Each flower is enclosed in a tubular 2-toothed and 2- 

 nerved membranous involucre, composed of 2 connate cuspidate bracts, the cap- 

 sule is cylindrical, 5-valved, the valves terminate in ovate, persistent ciliate 

 calyx-lobes, and separate from 5 central fibrous, reticulate 1 -seeded bags. North- 

 West Himalaya 5000-10,500 ft. ; fl. June- Aug. Leaves fetid when bruised. 



Order XLVI. ERICACEAE. 



Shrubs, small trees or rarely wiry herbs. Leaves usually alternate, 

 simple, exstipulate. Calyx more or less deeply divided into 4 or 5 teeth 

 or lobes, tube adnate to the ovary ( Vacdniece) or quite free (Ericinece). 

 Corolla hypogynous or epigynous, the tube ovoid, globose, tubular, or 

 eampanulate. Stamens generally double the number of corolla-lobes, hy- 

 pogynous or epigynous. Anthers 2-celled, opening at the top by 2 pores 

 or oblong slits, or rarely longitudinally. Ovary inferior or superior, usually 

 4-5- oo - celled, with many ovules in each cell, on axile placentas. Style 

 slender ; stigma entire or minutely lobed. Seeds very small, with a fleshy 

 albumen ; embryo straight, often minute. Eoyle 111. 255 ( Vacdniece), 

 257 j Wight 111. ii. 116, 119. 



This Order comprises two sub-Orders : 1. Vacdniece, with inferior ovary, 

 containing the Bilberry ( Vaccinium Myrtillus, Linn.) of Europe, and numerous 

 species of the same genus on the mountains of Southern and Eastern India. 

 2. Eridneoe, with superior ovary, comprising the numerous heaths of Europe 

 and South Africa, and to which sub-Order belong the two genera which find a 

 place in this Flora. 



Capsule globose, 5-celled, dehiscing loculicidally . . . 1. Andromeda. 

 Capsule cylindrical or conical, 5-1 8 -celled, dehiscing septicidally 2. Khododendron. 



1. ANDROMEDA, Linn. 



Shrubs or trees with alternate, petiolate leaves. Calyx without bract- 

 lets. Sepals 5, wholly or partially distinct, valvate in the bud. Corolla 

 5-toothed. Stamens 10 ; anthers fixed near the middle, the cells opening 

 by a terminal pore. Capsule globose, 5-celled, 5-valved, dehiscing loculi- 

 cidally, dissepiments remaining on the valves. Seeds numerous, minute, 



