MACLOSKIE : ERICACE/E. 645 



b. Calyx at length enlarged and fleshy under and around the capsule. Anther-cells pointed 



or awned. I. Gaultluria, p. 645. 



b2. Calyx not changed after flowering. Fruit a globose berry. 2. Pernettya, p. 645. 



A2. Ovary inferior, adnate to the calyx. Stamens on the base of the corolla. Anthers mostly 



spurred, elongated with subterminal pores. 3. Vaccinium, p. 648. 



(Andromeda myr smites Lam., is Lebetanthus of Epacridacea. ) 



i. GAULTHERIA Hook. f. 



Shrubs, with alternate, evergreen leaves, and small axillary, 5-merous 

 flowers, with urn- to bell-shaped corolla, lo-staminate at its base, and its 

 lobes recurved. Anthers opening by a pore, mostly awned. Ovary 5- 

 celled, enclosed in the fleshy calyx, forming a berry. 



Species 100, American, N. and S.; also in the Orient, and in the Him- 

 alayas at elevations ; in S. E. Australia, Tasmania, and New Zeal. In 

 Antarctic regions this genus and Pernettya replace the northern Arbutus. 



G. MICROPHYLLA Hook. f. (G. antarctica, Pernettya microphylla Gaud.) 

 Low, branching, the branches slender setose. FIG. 81. 



Leaves broad ovate or oblong, obtuse, thickened 



on the margins, obscurely serrate. Pedicels 



short, fasciculate, i -flowered, recurved. Corolla 



globose, white. Berries red or white, with a 



pleasant aromatic taste. (Fig. 81.) 



Magellan ; Fuegia ; Staaten I., Falklands. 



2. PERNETTYA Gaud. 



Gaultherta microphylla. Flow- 



Low, evergreen shrubs, with coriaceous, ovate- ering branch, with magnified floral 

 lanceolate, usually serrate leaves, and small, organs, and (on right) stamen, and 

 mostly solitary flowers nodding on long axillary '- a ove on 

 pedicels having scale-like bracteoles. Calyx 



free from the ovary, scarcely enlarged in fruit. Corolla urn-shaped, 

 shortly 5-lobed, lo-staminute at its base. Disk 10- or 5-lobed. Berry 

 large, globular, seeds numerous. 



Species 26, most in the Andes ; with stragglers in Brazil, Tasmania, 

 and New Zeal. (Fig. in Eng. & Prantl, iv, i, p. 46.) 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



A. Leaves lanceolate, spiny-serrate, small, crowded, flowers minute, on axillary pedicels. 



pannfolia. 

 A2. Leaves linear-lanceolate, mucronate-acuminate, serrate. angustifolia. 



