86 ERICACER. [ Vaccinium, 
many as corolla-lobes, hypogynous ; anthers adnate, 2-celled, 
is ot Phisished with 2 bristles on the back, the cells more or 
less prolonged in a tube open at the apex. Epigynons disk cup- 
shaped, 5-lobed, or more or less cushion-like. Ovary 4- or 5-celled, 
the placentas more or less distinct and free, ascending, bearing 
numerous 0 on their margins. Berry more or less pulpy, 
4- or 5-celled, often appearing 10-celled from the adherence of the 
walls of the thickened placentas. Seeds several in each cell, with 
a coriaceous or somewhat bony testa. Albumen fleshy. Embryo 
orthotrop, the radicle next the hilum.—Shrubs, often epiphytic, 
rarely small trees, with serrate or entire leaves. Flowers solitary 
or several together in the axils of the leaves, or in axillar y racemes, 
* Flowers usually large, rarely small; corals gee weak 
hs Petritory speed pedicels more than an inch long, thick- 
ened upwards often eign pe dilated at th he apex ; 
1, 
piphytical shrubs, 
X Flowers large, 1- 2h i in. long, tubular re bell-shaped. 
in, lon 
© Filaments more z 
Anthers short, connate; corolla tubular 3 inflorescence glabrous. ., V. maecrostemon. 
ise LOO eae short and thick, pid sind 4g long. 
§ Calyx and pedicels gland: 
Anthers without bristles between their tubes ; catia tubular or 
tubular-bell-shaped 
; F . V. verticillatum. 
§ . yx and pedicels ite smooth, 
+ Anthers without a pair of reflexed or uncin- 
wiitne bristles | between wae tu 
Anthers exserted ; es of leaves uni a marginal nerve ; 
flowers about Zin, hoo or longer, ar . V. variegatum. — 
i flowers uniformly scarlet and only an inch or 
thereabouts V. Roylet. 
Anthers included sree of lowes not confluent into a obatinucss 
marginal n V, miniatum, 
ee Anthers with i pair. of bristles between 
tubes at the base or half-wa way up. 
ane tubular-bell- — calyx toothed, teeth subulate- 
ceolate 
Conta hag de, bell-shaped calyx. ‘limb _eup-sbaped, with sinuate 
Vs campanulatum. 
or x ¢ Flows s rather small 4in . to 2 lin, only long, urceo 
to elongate-ureolut, 
reacts eolate; flowers in uneled 
prmin emes “si . V. auriculatum. 
Corolla 2 lin. lo ey oi in short tbe like racemes 
¢ « V. acuminatun, 
V. odontocerum. 
Corolla § “ 
ro} an in. 
terminal sags 
ers small, urceolate or urceolate- shaped, on 
‘ icels thickened oly ty we ie or 
not at all, forming elongate usually 1-sided ra 
Berries glob i 
a ee: htaeal. the bracts deciduous, —Epiphytic 
ru 
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Branchlets pubescent; es tect at the 
with 2 bristles at th vent mete: — V, pumilum, 
xx! “eer sition; the bracts deciduous .— Terres 
trial shrubs.or small ¢ trees, 
