1877.] Knowledge of tlie Burmese Wlor a. 215 



11. V. DoNiAi^UM, Wight Icon. t. 1191 ; Walp. Ann, I. 478 {'Epicjy- 

 nium Donianum, Klotzsch in Linn. XXIV. 51. ; V. ctjjinc, Wight Icon. t. 

 1190). 



Var. a. genuinum, anthers with a pair of bristles between the tubes ; 

 pedicels longer. 



Yar. y8. exaeistatum, anthers without bristles ; pedicels longer. 



Hab. Frequent in the drier hill-, especially the pine-forests of the 

 Martaban hills east of Tounghoo, at 3000 to 6000 ft. elevation.— Fl. Jan., 

 Febr. ; Fr. March. 



12. V. EXAEISTATTJM, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1873. 86. 

 Hab. Common in the drier hill-forests, especially the stunted ones, 



of Martaban, at 5000 to 6000 ft. elevation.— Fr. March. 



Possibly only an exaristate form of V. Lesclienaultii, Wight. V. Ma- 

 laccense, one of this vicinity, differs in the puberulous corolla. 



EBIGACE^. 



Cons;pectii,s of Genera. 



Trib. I. ARBVTEJE. Corolla deciduous. Fruit a drupe or berry. 



Pernettya. Corolla globular urn-shaped, the limb 5-toothed and reflexed. Sta- 

 mens 10. Hypogynous scales 10, 3-lobed. Ovary 5-celled, the cells many-ovuled. 

 Trib. 2. ERICE^. Corolla deciduous or persistent. Fruit a capsule. 



* Capsule loculicidally 5 — 6-valved. (Andromedese) . 



GrAULTHEMA. Calyx 2-bracted at the base. Corolla urceolate, the revolute Hmb 

 5-cleft. Stamens 10 ; anthers 2-cleft, the cells terminating in 2 awns. Hypogynous 

 scales 10, usually united at the base. Calyx fleshy or succulent in fruit. 



Andromeda. Corolla globular to tubular-urn-shaped, the reflexed Hmb 5-toothed. 

 Stamens 10, included ; anther-cells usually one-awned. Calyx open in bud, dry in 

 fruit. 



* * Capsule dehiscing septicidally from the apex. (Rhododendreae) . 

 Ehododendron. Corolla funnel- or bell -shaped, 5-cleft. Stamens 5 or 10, decli- 



nate ; anthers opening by terminal pores. Capsule 5-celled. 



Gaultheria, L. 



1. G. PiJNCTATA, Bl. Bydr. 856 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1055. 



Var. a. Blumei, leaves linear-oblong to oblong, very shortly petioled 

 or almost sessile. A shrub, glabrous, the branchlets triquetrous. 



? Var. /3. FEAaEANTissiMA, (G. fragrantissima, Wall, in Asiat. Ees. 

 XIII. 207. c. icon. ; Wight Icon. t. 1196 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5984), leaves obo- 

 vate to obovate oblong and oblong, longer (up to f in.) or shorter j)etioled. 

 A small bushy tree or at high elevations reduced to a shrub of a few feet in 

 height, the branchlets triquetrous. 



? Var. y. Lesche:n"atjltii, (G. Leschenmdtli, DC. Prod. VII. 593; 

 Wight Icon. t. 1195 and lUustr. t. 141. C. ; Andromeda Kathagerensis, 



