240 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [EricecB. 
corolla plerumque obliqua segmentis insequalibus, staminibus 2 apice appendiculatis, capsula subglobosa. — 
Fl. K Zeal. i. 160. Campanula saxicola, Br. Prodr. 562. Streleskia montana, Nob. in Lond. Journ.Bot. 
vi. 266. (Gunn, 1178.) (Tab. LXXI.) 
Hab. Summit of Mount Wellington, Gunn.— (F\. Jan.) 
Distbib. Mountains of New Zealand. 
This is in many respects a remarkable plant; in Tasmania it appears to be scarce, and all my specimens 
are very uniform in size and appearance, being 1-2 inches high, perfectly glabrous, with several rather mem- 
branous, linear-spathulate, blunt leaves, £-1 inch long, and a slender, naked scape, bearing a small, nearly erect or 
inclined flower, with an oblique, four-cleft corolla, about i inch across, and four stamens, of which one or two are 
furnished at the top of the anther with a small claw. In this state it is so unlike Wahlenhergia gracilis as to have 
misled me altogether, both as to its affinities and the Natural Order to which it should have been referred. I 
placed it among Lobeliacea, relying chiefly on the unequal stamens, the structure of the anthers, and the oblique 
corolla, and I further named it in honour of my friend Count Strzelecki, the eminent Australian traveller. When 
studying the New Zealand Campanulaceai however, I found that a common mountain plant of that country not only 
perfectly accorded with Brown's character of 0. saxatilis, but presented almost as many varieties as C. gracilis itself, 
of which some of the caulescent ones passed into forms of gracilis, and smaller dwarf ones into Streleskia, thus 
confirming Brown's observation of C. saxatilis, "prrecedenti (<?. gracili) proxima, at distincta videtur." Some of 
the New Zealand forms have flowers quite as large as those of C. gracilis, var. vincaflora, and with five extremely 
unequal lobes ; in others the corolla is four- or five-cleft, and perfectly regular; the stamens also vary much in the 
length of the filament, breadth of its base, and inequality of the anthers ; but I do not find any so markedly 
Lobeliaceous as the Tasmanian specimens, in which the two larger stamens have broad, ciliated bases to the fila- 
ments. The plant is worthy of a very attentive study, for it is the most instructive I know of, as proving the 
close affinity of Campannlace* and Lobdiacece, and the numerous deceptive forms that species may assume.— 
Plate LXXI. Fig. A, Tasmanian, and B, New Zealand specimens ; Fig. 1, 2, and 3, corollas of different forms 
and ages ; 4, stamens ; 5, stigma ; 6, ovary cut transversely :—a 11 magnified. 
Nat. Ord. XLVIII. ERICE^E. 
The replacement of the Ericea of all other temperate regions of the world, by Epaeridea in Australia, 
is one of the most singular phenomena in the geographical distribution of plants ; and what is even more 
singular, the few Australian Erieea which do exist are confined to the mountains of Tasmania, with the 
exception of one of them, which has been recently found by Mueller on the Australian Alps. 
Gen. I. GAULTHERIA, L. 
Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla ovata v. urceolata, ore contracto breviter 5-fida, lobis recurvis. Stamina 10 ; 
filamenta plana, basi dilatata, hypogyna v. imo corollse inserta j antheraram loculi biaristati. Ovarium 5- 
loculare, basi glandulis 10 liberis connatisve suffultura. Capsula sapissime calyce baccato inclusa, 5-locu- 
laris, loculicide 5-valvis. Placenta imo columns adnata. Semina angulata; testa reticulata.— Frutices 
plerumque Impida v. setos® ; foliis alternis {rarimme oppositis), coriaceis, semperviridibus ; floribus axil- 
laribus termihuUbus; 
Gaultheria is a 1 
i lolUarUs, al , albis, rubris caruleisve. 
;enus, abounding in humid, mountainous regions within the tropics, and also found i 
temperate North and South America and in New Zealand, but not in Europe, nor in Asia north of the Himalav 
nor m any part of Africa. The few Australian species are confined to the Australian Alps and to Tasmania, at 
all are very variable in stature and foliage. The berried fruit arising from the enlarged calyx is a prominent fe 
