MACLOSKIE : EPACRIDACE/E. 649 



VACCINIUM ULIGINOSUM PATAGONICUM n. var. 



Low shrub, 15 cm., with smaller, crowded leaves, 6 mm. long. "With 

 red edible berries." 



Cordilleras of S. Patagon., by J. B. Hatcher, Feb., 1897. 



Family 84. EPACRIDACE^E. 



As Ericacece ; but usually with i -celled anthers, and stamens isomerous 

 with the corolline lobes, and often inserted in the corolla-tube. Sepals 

 not united, but the South American genus has hypogynous stamens, 

 with 2-celled anthers. 



Species 300, in S. Australia, Tasman.; N. Zeal., with some species in 

 New Caledonia, Himalaya to Malaya, Fiji, Hawaiia ; and in Patagonia 

 and Fuegia. 



LEBETANTHUS Endl. 



Glabrous, subscandent undershrub, with small, distichous, evergreen 

 leaves, ovate, acute, serrate ; and axillary short-pediceled, solitary flowers 

 as long as the leaves. Calyx enclosed in large bracts. Corolla subcam- 

 panulate. Stamens hypogynous ; their anthers 2-celled. 



Species 2, Antarctic Amer. 



Lebetanthus is closely related to Prionotes of Tasmania; J. D. Hooker 

 calls attention to the fact that they both affect a moist woo'dy region, 

 contrary to the habit of both Epacridacese and Ericaceae. 



I. L. AMERICANOS Elldl. 



Leaves subsessile, coriaceous, subparasitical. (Figs, in Eng. & Prantl, 

 iv, i, p. 72.) 



Patagon.; Staaten I.; W. Magellan, at Puerto Angusto (Dusen); 

 Fuegia (Fuegian name Kapa). 



2. L. MYRSINITES (Lam. sub Andromeda; Pernettya microphylla Gaud.). 



Prostrate, much branching, glabrous. Leaves short-petioled, ovate, 

 acute, obtusely serrate, rusty, venulose underneath. 

 Magellan; W. Patagon. 



