92 ERICACER, [ Andromeda. 
: 5-valved, with numerous minute scopiform seeds in each cell.— 
Small trees or shrubs or undershrubs, with alternate penninerved 
leaves. Flowers usually small, in one-sided, elongate, axillary 
racemes, 
1. A. ovalifolia, Wall.; Brand. For. Fl.” 210.—A tree (23—35 
+ (?) + 2—3), usually stunted and crooked, shedding leaves in C.S., 
the younger parts pubescent, but soon turning more or less glabrous ; 
leaves ovate to ovate-oblong and oblong-lanceolate, rounded or obtuse 
at the base, 24-34 in. long, ona glabrescent petiole 2-3 lin. long, 
shortly acuminate, entire, rigidly ¢ artaceous, glabrous, or usually 
slightly pubescent on the nerves beneath and sprinkled with minute 
rown scales; flowers rose-coloured or white, on 1-2 lin. long or 
5-valved, glabrous. 
Has.—Common in the drier (especially the stunted) hill forests of Martaban, 
at 5,000 to 7,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. Fr. Wert so ae : 
GAULTHERIA, Kalm. 
Calyx 5-lobed, somewhat enlarging with ripening of the fruit and 
turning more or less fleshy. Corolla ovoid-urceolate, often contract- 
ed at the 5-toothed mouth. Stamens 10, included ; filaments often 
villous; anthers 2-cleft, 2-celled, the cells produced into 2 bristles 
(anthers therefore 4-aristate). Hypogynous scales 10, distinct, or 
usually united at the base. Ovary 5-celled, the cells with numer- 
4 shy calyx, and appe 
try-hke, 5-gonous and loculicidally 5-valved.—Shrubs or small 
trees, = a o or entire leaves. Flowers or bracteoled 
pedicels arranged in shorter or ] -si i OF 
Sc ata r tonger usually one-sided axillary 
1. G. punctata, Bl—aAn evergreen shrub, often crowjne out 
i , ee 
into a stunted crooked tree up to 25 ft high, but = often re- 
to oblong-lanceolate and obovate, on a longer or shorter glabrous 
ly red ee: be at bs base, 2-3 in. long, acute to pee 
serrwate, especially towards the apex, coriaceous, glab- 
rous, beneath greenish white and more or less plbadedan delta he 
midrib and nerves strong and red-coloured, the transverse veination 
