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opening "by 2 pores or slits and often with spur-like appendages 

 at the base. Ovary surrounded by a disk or scales, free or 

 adhering to the corolla. Fr. capsular or baccate, with several 

 cells, many-seeded. No stipules. 



* Anthers opening by pores. 



Tribe I. ARBUTEJE. Fr. baccate, fleshy, superior. Disk 

 and stain, hypugynous. Petals cohering. L. usually broad. 



1. ARBUTUS. Cal. 5-parled. Cor. globose or ovoid with a 

 small contracted 5-cleft reflexed border, deciduous. Stain. 

 10, with flattened filaments. Anth. compressed, with 2 

 pores at the apex, fixed at the back beneath the apex and 

 there furnished with 2 reflexed appendages. Berry glo- 

 bose, tubercled; cells 5, many-seeded. 



2. ARCTOSTAPHYLOS. Fr. with 5 1-seeded cells, smooth. 

 Otherwise like Arbutus. 



Tr. II. ERICEJE. Fr. capsular, dry, superior. Anth. 2-celled. 

 Disk and stam. hypogynous. Testa close. Petals cohering. 



3. ANDROMEDA. Caps, of 5 cells and 5 valves, dry. Other- 

 wise like Arbutus. L. usually broad. 



4. CALLUNA. Cal. ^-parted, membranous, coloured, longer 

 than the 4-cleft bellshaped persistent but fading corolla, 

 surrounded by 4 green bracts. Stam. 8, with dilated fila- 

 ments. Caps. 4-celled ; dissepiments adhering to the axis ; 

 valves opening at the dissepiments and separate from them. 



5. ERICA. Cal. 4-parted. Cor. bellshaped or ovoid, often 

 ventricose, 4-toothed, persistent, fading. Stam. 8. Caps. 

 4-celled ; valves opening between the dissepiments and carry- 

 ing a part with them. 



6. BRYANTHUS. Cal. ^-parted. Cor. ovoid, deciduous 

 mouth contracted, 5-toothed. Stam. 10, included ; filaments 

 slender, longer than tlie anthers ; cells short, truncate, open- 

 ing by pores at the apex. Stigma peltate, ivith 5 tubercles. 

 Caps. 5-celled with 5 valves opening at the dissepiments. 



7. BORE^TA. Cal. 4-cleft. Cor. ovoid, ventricose, limb 4- 

 toothed. Stain. 8, included ; fllament* flattened shorter than 



