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GAULTHERIA 



G. TRICHOPHYLLA, Royle. 



A low evergreen shrub of densely tufted habit, 3 to 6 ins. high, spreading 

 by means of underground shoots ; stems wiry and slender, bristly, furnished 

 with twelve or more leaves to the inch. Leaves stalkless, narrow-oblong ; 

 ^ in. long, ^ to in. wide ; smooth on both surfaces, but bristly on the 

 margins, glossy dark green above, pale beneath. Flowers solitary in the 

 leaf-axils ; corolla pink, in. long and wide, bell-shaped. Fruit blue-black. 



Native of Himalaya up to 13,000 ft. ; introduced to Kew in 1897, where it 

 has, up to the present, proved fairly hardy in ordinarily sheltered places. It is a 

 dainty plant suitable for the rock garden, and pleasing for the bright green 

 of its foliage and neat habit. Propagated by cuttings and division. 



G. VEITCHIANA, Craib. 



A low evergreen shrub forming a dense, rounded tuft, and spreading by 

 underground stems ; branchlets clothed with minute down, with which are 



GAULTHERIA VEITCHIANA. 



intermixed long bristles. Leaves of hard texture, \\ to 3^ ins. long, half as 

 wide ; oblong or slightly obovate, rounded or broadly tapered at the base, 

 abruptly narrowed at the apex to a short glandular tip ; shallowly toothed, 

 the teeth often bristle-tipped ; upper surface much wrinkled, dark glossy green, 

 conspicuously net-veined, without down ; lower surface at first furnished with 

 bristles which partially fall away, leaving it harsh to the touch ; stalk ^ to 

 % in. long. Flowers densely packed in axillary racemes, I in. or more long, 

 white. Corolla ^ in. long, nodding, narrowed from the base to the mouth ; 

 calyx-lobes lanceolate ; main-stalk downy, each flower produced in the axil 

 of an ovate, membranous, more or less ciliated bract J in. long ; the short smooth 

 flower-stalk is also furnished with bracts partially hiding the flower. Fruit 

 indigo-blue, about the size of a small pea. 



Native of Hupeh, China ; introduced by Wilson about 1907, and a very 

 distinct, neat little evergreen, thriving well in peat and much moisture. Allied 

 to the Himalayan G. Hookeri. 



