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iU'RA OF TASMANIA 
ture in many species, and mainly tlistiniruishinir tin genus from Andromeda, Pier 
and in G. antipoda and others ripe capsular ami berried fruit may Ik- found on I 
ing, evergreen (sometimes prostrate) shrubs, with alternate (rarely opposite), c 
toothed or crenate leaves, and often setose branchlets. Flowers i 
flowered racemes, white, succeeded by dry capsules, which are generally covered with the enlarged, fl 
calyx. Corolla urceolate, with a small five-lobcd mouth. Stamens ten. included ; filaments flat 
often hairy; anther-lobes elongated upwards, where they open by a pore, and are each terminated 
Ovary five-celled, surrounded at the base by five glands or a ten-h-h. d 
or surrounded by the persistent calyx, which sometimes becomes fleshy, and forms ■ bent when 
the capsule, though enclosed in the calyx, is free except at the point <a attaelinn nt. split tiiiL. r <i< \\ u 
cells. Seeds numerous, minute, attached to placentae at the base of each cell. The placenia- an- 
tral column, which remains after the valves separate. Named in honour u\' M. M. Gautirr. a F 
who settled in Canada, and wrote a work on the Sugar-Maple.) 
1. Gaultheria hispida (Br. Prodr. i. 558); erecta, ramis Betoao-hispidis sctis patu 
foliis elliptico-oblongis elongato-lantvolutisve acuininatis s<'rrulaiis, racemis teriimialilius l.r 
culo pubescente, pedicellis glaberrimis, bracteolis late ovatis acuminatis brevibus, calycibus 
tatisve.— DC. Prodr. vii. 591; Rich. Voy. Astro!. 8£. t. 30. {Gunn, 30ft.) 
Hab. Common on the mountains throughout the bland, elev. .' 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia (elev. < ;i 
i .nt ; pedicels glabrous, with thxe - ■ 
usually baccate in fruit, but not always so. 
2. Gaultheria lanceolata (Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 2(37) ; fruticulus 
iscendentibus l - igintim ronmlosis nppresse s 
riinis serrulatis, pedum 
{Gunn, 515.) (Tab. LXXII.) 
Hab. Summit of Benlomond, the Western Mountains, etc., elev. 1( 00 
A small species, intermediate in size between G. antipoda, var. depressa, ai 
branches a foot high, covered with appressed setae. Leave* perfectly glabrous J- 
acuminate, serrulate, very thick and coriaceous. Peduncles solitary, stout, shorte 
Flowers small, white. Calyx baccate, red.— Plate LXXII. Fig. 1, flower; 2, con 
ovary and hypogynous glands : 5. fruit : — all hiagnified. 
3. Gaultheria antipoda (Forst. Prodr. 196) ; divaricatim ramosa, n 
et setulosis, foliis late ovatis oblongis tai M*M BWrtasve, I 
solitariis breve pedicellatis, pedicello pubescente bracteolato, calyce baccato \ 
FL N. Zeal. 210. t. 28; DC. Prodr. viii. 594; Hook. fil. ¥L 
Var. 7. depressa ; fruticulus parvus depressus, foliis parvis late obovatis 
calycibus fructiferis valde incrassatis. — Nob. in Fl. N. Zeal. I. c. G. depress; 
vi. 267. {Gunn, 516.) (Tab. LXXIII. A.) 
Hab. Var. 7, summits of Mount Olympus, and of Benlomond, etc., Gun 
Distrib. Lofty mountains of the Middle Island of Xew Zealand. 
