Gaultheria.] ERICACER. 93 
Jax ; flowers small, white, 2-bracted at the base, on 1-2 lin. long 
puberulous glabrescent. pedicels, forming rather robust, puberulous, 
glabrescent racemes in the axils of the leaves and crowded at the end 
of the branchlets ; calyx-lobes ovate, acute, slightly puberulous ; 
corolla 2-23 lin. long, ovoid-urceolate, glabrous outside, villous or 
almost glabrous within, the very short lobes reflexed 3 Ovary vil- 
lous ; capsule depressed-globular, pubescent, more or less covered by 
the fleshy bluish-black calyx. 
Haxs.—Common in the drier, especially the stunted, hill forests of Martaban, 
at 6,000 to 7,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. Feb. ; Fr. March.—l.—SS,—=Metam. 
RHODODENDRON, L. 
numerous, compressed. scopiform.—Small trees or shrubs, sometimes 
epiphytic, with alternate or almost whorled leaves. Flowers usually 
Owy, in umbel-like terminal racemes or solitary or few together in 
the axils of the upper leaves. 
Leaves silvery and shortly tomentose beneath; ovary rusty- 
puberulous ; bracts of leaf-buds villous ; tree s ‘ . R. arboreum. 
Leaves rusty-lepidote beneath; ovary and style rusty-lepidote ; : 
bracts of leaf-buds only silky-ciliate; shrub. . 
€ smooth. 
Ovary and style quite glabrous ; bracts of leaf-buds minutely cili- 
ate Ree eg ene ot ee 4 
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above, beneath appressed silvery-tomentose, the strong lateral nerves 
more or less glabrescent; flowers showy, scarlet, on shortly ubes- 
cent longer or shorter pedicels, forming terminal, sessile, umbel-like 
Tacemes protected by very deciduous, large, villous-pubescent bracts ; 
YX very short and inconspicuous, 5-toothed ; corolla campanu- 
late-funnel-shaped, about an inch long or somewhat longer, the lobes 
ovate, blunt; filaments slender, glabrous ; ovary rusty-puberulous ; 
