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VACCINIUM. 



All parts glabrons ; racemes axillary, along with the corolla, calyx etc., glabrous, V. Donianum. 

 Young shoots and raoenaes, sometimes also the calyces, pubescent ; corolla gla- 

 brous, V. exarintatum. 



ANDROMEDA. Only species A. ovalifolia. 



6AULTHERIA. Only species, G. punctata. 



RHODODENDRON. 



Leaves shortly appressed tomentose or lepidote beneath. Calyx inconspicuous. 



Leaves silvery and shortly tomentose beneath. Ovary rusty puberulous ; bracts of leaf-buds 

 villous ; tree, , B. arboreum. 



Leaves rusty lepidote beneath ; ovary and style rusty lepidote ; bracts of leaf-buds only 



silky ciliate ; shrub, B. /ormosum. 



Leaves glabrous and smooth. 



Ovary and style quite glabrous ; bracts of leaf-buds minutely ciliate, .B. Moulmeinense. 



PLUMBAGINE^. 



Conspectus of genera. 



AEOiALiTia. styles free, glabrous, the stigmas capitate. Petals coriaceoos, articnlate abore the connate base. 

 Fruit narrow and elongate, exserted. Seeds vfithout albumen. 



AE6IAL1TIS. Only species, A. annulata. 



MTBSINEACE^. 

 Conspectus of genera. 



Fmit an indehiscent berry or drupe. Seeds with albumen. 



O Ovary inferior or nearly so, at least in fruit. 

 Uaisa, Corolla bell-shaped or nearly so. Drupe crowned by the calyx-limb, globular. . 

 O Ovary superior. Drupes globular. 



Y. Anther-cells opening by longitndinal slits, not chambered. 

 Ehbelia. Corolla consisting of 5 or 4 free petals. Anthers as long or shorter than the filaments. Ovules few. 



Flowers racemose-or spicate-panicled. 

 Myesine. Corolla gamopetalous, more or less deeply divided into 4 or 5 lobes. Anthers longer than the filaments. 



Ovules few. Flowers in sessile clusters or umbels. 

 Aedisia. Corolla gamopetalous, usually rotate. Anthers longer than the filaments, free. Ovules numerous. 



>C >CAnther-cells transversely chambered inside. 

 Climacandea. Characters and habit of Ardisia ; anthers cohering in a cone. 



Anther-cells transversely chambered. Fruit a dry cylindrical follicle-like curved drupe, irregularly 

 rupturing. Seed elongate, germinating while still enclosed in the pericarp. No albumen. 



Aeqiceeas. Only genus. 



MAESA. 



{Liforescence and all other parts quite glabrous.) 



II Inflorescence hardly so long as the petiole. 



Leaves inconspicuously and remotely callose-toothed ; branchlets verrucose, . . ,,M. verrucosa. 



II II Inflorescence very much longer than the petioles. 



Leaves entire ; compound racemes shorter than the leaves, 31. ramentacea. 



Leaves coarsely serrate ; racemes as in former ; calyx only \ lin. long, M. Indica. 



MYRSINE. 



Leaves serrate-toothed, the nerves prominent beneath ; stigma 3-lobed, the lobes large and 



fringed, .:*. .'.* ^' seniiserrata. 



Leaves entire, nerves thin or almost invisible, stigma simple capitate or obscurely 2- 



lobed, M. avenis. 



ARDISIA. 



Floicer in compound terminal panicles, or the same accompanied by smaller ones in 

 the axils of the upper-leaves. 



Leaves rather chartaceous, not decurrent, the nerves almost horizontally diverging, numer- 

 ous ; panicles slightly puberulous ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long ; peduuoles compres- 

 sed ; A. ance2}3' 



