MACLOSKIE I ERICACEAE. 



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FIG. 8 1. 



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



or awned. I. Gaultheria, p. 645. 



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



Az. 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 myrsinites 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. 

 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. 



Gaultheria 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 



pedicels having scale-like bracteoles. Calyx 



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



shortly 5-lobed, io-staminite 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. 



parvifolia. 

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



