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tubular or campanulate, greenish- white or reddish, the mouth with 

 ■5 spreading or recui-ved imbricate lobes. Stamens 10, included, attached 

 to the base of the corolla ; anthers produced at the apex into 2 tubes, 

 and often also with 1 or 2 dorsal spurs ; filaments dilated at the base, 

 usually pilose (in some flowers the stamens small and the anthers 

 without appendages). Ovary 5-celled, sometimes 5-lobed ; style cylin- 

 -dric ; stigma simple ; ovules many in each cell. Capsule 5-celled, 

 dehiscing loculicidally from the apes, enveloped in the succulent calyx; 

 ■seeds many, minute, sub-globose, angled. — Disteib. Species about 80, 

 mostly American, a few in the mountains of India and Malaya, a few 

 also in Australia and New Zealand. 



iLeaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, sub-acute .. ..1. G. fragrantissima. 



Leaves broadly ovate, caudate-acuminate . . . . 2. G. leucocarpa. 



1. Gaultheeia feageantissima. Wall, in As. Eesearch. XIII. 397, 

 ^uith figure. A shrub ; young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, 

 3-angled, glabrous, pale brown when dry. Leaves thickly coriaceous, 

 •elHptic or oblong-elliptic, sub-acute, the base cuneate, the edges crenate- 

 sen-ate ; both surfaces pale brown when dry and dull, strongly reticu- 

 late, the upper always glabrous, the lower with sparse black scales and 

 occasionally a few scattered hairs ; length 1-5 to 2-25 in. ; breadth -75 

 to 1"2 in. ; petioles '15 to -2 in. Bacemes axillary, usually longer than 

 the leaves, slender, many-flowered; pedicels -15 in. long, deflexed, 

 €ach with a small triangular acute bract at its base and two broader 

 connate ones above its middle. Floivers "2 in. long. Calyx campanu- 

 late, with 5 deep triangular lobes, puberulous, -05 in. long or less at 

 first, persistent and increasing to "2 in. with age. Corolla -IS in. long, 

 widely tubular, the mouth contracted and with 5 short blunt lobes. 

 Stamens 10 ; anthers elongate, included, the apex with 2 deeply bifid 

 apical horns ; filaments flattened at the base. Fruit depressed-globular, 

 with 5 deep grooves, -15 in. in diam., minutely pubescent, crowned by 

 the long, persistent, slightly clavate, cylindric style, many-seeded. DC. 

 Prod. VII. 593 ; Wall. Cat. 765 ; Wight Ic. 1196 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5984 ; 

 €larke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 457. G. fragrans, Don Prod. 

 151. G. punctata, Blume Bijdr. 850; DC. I.e. 593; Miq. PI. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 1055; Kui-z in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 1877, II. 215, For. 

 PL Burm. 11. 92. G. ovalifolia, Wall. Cat. 1523. G. LeschenauUii, 

 DC. I.e. 593 ; Wight 111. t. 141c, and Ic. 1195. Andromeda flexuosa, 

 Moon Cat. PI. Ceyl. 35. A. katagherensis , Hook. Ic. PI. t. 246. 

 Leucothoe (?) katagherensis, DC. I.e. 606. 



Peeak, on the summit of Gunong Batu Pateh : Wray 879, 1580 ; 

 Scortechini 405 {in part). — Disteib. British India, Ceylon, Sumatra, 

 Java. 



