Ericaceae 



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olate, 3-5 cm. long, 5-12 mm. wide, obtuse to acute, some- 

 times mucronate, deep green, entire, with yellow sessile glands 

 especially while young, usually glaucous and white-papillose 

 beneath, recurved on margin, the petioles 1-5 mm. long; 

 corymbs densely many-flowered, terminal and sessile, densely 

 puberulent, often glandular-dotted, the pedicels 1-3 cm. long, 

 the bracts ovate, acute, caducous; flowers white, 8-10 mm. 

 across; petals elliptic, glabrous; capsules oblong, 5-valved, ob- 

 tuse at both ends, 4-5 mm. long, glandular-dotted, nodding; 

 styles nearly as long as to slightly shorter than the capsules. 

 June-July. Wet boggy slopes and high moors; Hokkaido, 



Honshu (n. distr.); gregarious. Sakhalin, s. Kuriles, Ko- 

 rea, and e. Siberia. 



Var. decumbens Ait. L. palustre var. angustijolitim Hook.; 

 L. decumbens (Ait.) Lodd. ex Steud.; L. palustre subsp. de- 

 cumbens (Ait.) Hult. HiME-iso-TsuTsuji. Low decum- 

 bent shrub with broadly linear, obtuse, rcvolute leaves 1-2 cm. 

 long, 2-3 mm. wide, the petioles 1-2 mm. long, the pedicels 

 slighdy shorter; flowers smaller. July. High moors in al- 

 pine regions; Hokkaido (Mount Daisetsu). Kuriles, Korea, 



Siberia, and N. America. 



3, MENZIESIA J. E. Smith Yoraku-tsutsuji Zoku 



Glabrous or pilose deciduous shrubs; leaves alternate, petiolate, elliptic, entire, membranous; flowers rather small, in terminal 

 umbels or abbreviated racemes, nodding, white, greenish, or rose-purple, the pedicels with a caducous bract at base; calyx 4- or 

 5-parted; corolla urceolate, campanulate, or tubular-globose, 4- to 5-lobed, the lobes imbricate in bud; stamens as many or twice 

 as many as the corolla-lobes, not exserted, the anthers unappendaged, opening by pores; style slender; capsules oblong to globose, 



erect, septicidally dehiscent, 4- to 5-valved; seeds minute, slighdy attenuate at both ends. About 10 species, in N. America 



and Japan. 



lA. Leaves pale green beneath; corolla obliquely urceolate, 5-7 mm. long; stamens 5, as many as the corolla-lobes \. M. pentandra 



IB. Leaves usually glaucous beneath; corolla tubular-campanulate, scarcely urceolate, 10-17 mm. long; stamens 8 or 10, twice as many 

 as the corolla-lobes. 



2K. Ovary glabrous; leaves glabrous on margin; corolla 4-lobed, glandular-pilose outside 2.M. goyozanensis 



2B. Ovary hairy; leaves ciliate at least while young; corolla 4- to 5-lobed, glabrous outside. 



3A. Ovary glandular-hairy; corolla-lobes 5, not ciliate 3. M. ciliicalyx 



3B. Ovary with cglandular hairs; corolla-lobes 4, glandular-ciliolate 4. M. purpurea 



1. Menziesia pentandra Maxim. Ko-y6raku-tsutsuji. falling and leaving minute obsolete teeth, glaucous and with 

 Much-branched pilose pubescent shrub; leaves flat, narrowly appressed coarse hairs on the midrib beneath, the petioles 2-^ 

 elliptic, 2.5-5 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide, acute at both ends, mm. long; flowers 3-8, umbellate, tubular-campanulate, 

 membranous, coarsely pilose with ascending hairs on upper slightly oblique, pale yellow or pale greenish yellow, 13-17 

 side and on midrib beneath, green above, paler beneath; flow- mm. long, nodding, the pedicels usually 2-3 cm. long, glandu- 

 ers i-6, umbellate, yellowish, 5-7 mm. long, the pedicels 1.5-3 lar-pilose; corolla white-pubescent inside; anthers slender, 

 cm. long, obliquely spreading, slighdy nodding, becoming erect about 4 mm. long; ovary with few glandular hairs; capsules 



in fruit, puberulous and glandular-pilose; calyx 2-3 mm. across, about 4 mm. long, 5-valved; style 10-14 mm. long. May- 



5-parted, glandular-ciliate; corolla obliquely urceolate, puber- June. Mountains and hills; Honshu (Totomi and Echizen 



ulent inside at tip and on lobes; stamens 5, glabrous, the Prov. and westw.) ; rather common. 



anthers broadly lanceolate, about 1.5 mm. long; ovary puberu- Var. lasiostipes Ohwi. Kenaga-usugi-yoraku. Hairs of 



lent and glandular-pilose; style about 4 mm. long; capsules pedicels and of calyx margin longer, pardy eglandular. 



ovoid-globose, 3-4 mm. in diameter, 5-valved. May-June. Mountains; Honshu (Mino, Mikawa, and s. Shinano). 



Mountains; Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu. Sa- Var. multiflora (Maxim.) Makino. M. multiflora Maxim. 



khalin and s. Kuriles. Urajiro-yoraku. Differs from the typical phase in the 



2. Menziesia goyozanensis M. Kikuchi. Goy6zan-y6- elongate, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, ciliate calyx-segments 

 raku. Much-branched shrub with glabrous branchlets; 4-6 mm. long; anthers 2-3 mm. long; styles 7-10 mm. long; 

 leaves oblong, 2.5-4 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, glabrous on corolla subcampanulate, usually purplish, the umbels with a 

 margin, long appressed-hairy toward the margin on upper short axis 1-6 mm. long, — ■ — Mountains and hills; Hokkaido, 

 side, glaucous and nearly glabrous beneath except for the ap- Honshu, Shikoku; variable and rather common northw. 

 pressed hairy costa; pedicels 3-6 together, about 1 cm. long, Var. bicolor Makino. M. ciliicalyx Maxim., pro parte; A/. 



nodding, glandular-pilose; calyx small, 4-fid, lobes broadly multiflora var. bicolor Makino Tsurigane-tsutsuji. Um- 



ovate; corolla tubular, 13-15 mm. long, 2-3 mm. across, glan- bels usually without the axis; calyx-lobes subrounded to ellip- 



dular-pilose outside, short-pubescent inside, pale yellow, rose- tic, 1-2 mm. long; anthers about 2 mm. long. May-June. 



colored outside; stamens 8, filaments pilose on lower half; Mountains and hills; Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku. 



ovary glabrous. June. Honshu (Mount Goyozan in Ri- Var. purpurea Makino. M. lasiophylla Nakai; M. multi- 



kuchuProv.). flora var. purpurea (Makino) Ohwi Murasaki-tsurigane- 



3. Menziesia ciliicalyx (Miq.) Maxim. (?) .Andromeda tsutsuji. Bud-scales puberulent on the margins; leaves 

 ciliicalyx Miq.; M. ciliicalyx var. tubiflora Koidz. ex Nakai; coarsely long-pilose on upper side; pedicels with long glandu- 



M. tubiflora Koidz. Usugi-yoraku. Shrub to 1 m. high, lar and eglandular hairs; corolla purple; calyx-lobes short, 1-2 



erect, branched, the inner bud-scales glandular-ciliate, the mm. long. June. Mountains; Honshu (Hakone). 



young branchlets glabrous or sparsely puberulous; leaves mem- Forma glabrescens (Nakai) Ohwi. M. lasiophylla var. gla- 



branous, ovate-oblong or obovate, sometimes oblong, 2.5-5 cm. brescens Nakai Fuji-tsurigane-tsutsuji. Leaves glabrous 



long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide, subacute to subobtuse, loosely pilose on upper side. Honshu (Kai and Suruga Prov.). 



especially toward the margin, ciliate at first, the hairs later 



