Biplycosia."] Lxxxii. EEiCACEa). (C. B. Clarke.) 469 



_ 2. D, discolor, Clarke ; lirancMets scabrid-pilose, leaves ovate or 

 elliptic narrowed at both ends serrate very white beneath, racemes pubescent, 

 calyx-teeth ovate acute. Gaultheria discolor, yutt. in Bot. Mag. t. 6034; 

 Belg. Hortic. viii. (1858) 193, t. 52. flg. 2. 



Bhotan ; Duphla Hills, SuttaU. Motilmein ; Nattoung expedition, Parish. 



Habit of Gaultheria fragrantissima. Learns 2 by f-lj in., glabroiis, often 

 3-nerved to near the apex ; petiole ^ in. Racemes 2 in. ; pedicels ^ in. ; bracts ^ in.," 

 OTate-lanceolate, cadncous; braeteoles | in., lanceolate, usually close to the ovary, 

 caducous. Corolla J by | in., ovoid, white, mouth red within. Anther-cells oblong, 

 not produced at the apex, muticous or with 1 or 2 most minute points. Fruit nearly 

 as of (?. fragrantissima but rather smaller ; calyx sometimes enlarged, tlue-blaok, 

 with ovate lobes ; sometimes (in the same branch with ripe seeds) hardly altered, of 5 

 ovate spreading lobes, below and much shorter than the fruit. 



3. ID.7 seml-infera, (Xarke; branches scabrid, leaves oblong or ovate 

 not acuminate, racemes pubescent, ovary half-inferior, calyx succulent closed 

 over the fruit with erect linear teeth from the centre. — Vacciaioid. Oriff. Itin. 

 Nates, 127, nn. 484, 485. 



Bhotan ; alt. 7-9000 ft , Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3482). 



A stout shrub. Leaves 1 J by J-f in., base cuneate or rounded, crenate-serrate, 

 coriaceous, glabrous, punctate beneath ; petiole 0-| in. Sacemes 1-2 in., sometimes 

 dense ; pedicels ^-i in. ; braeteoles small, Ubually close under the ovary. Corolla 

 i in., ovoid-conic. Stamens (in 2 of the few available flowers examined) small, 

 irregular, imperfect, apparently corresponding to the stamens of the dimorphic 

 flowers of Gaultheria fragrantissima. Ovary in the bud fully half-inferior ; upper 

 half conoidal, 5-ribbed, densely adpressed-pilose, containing the ovules. Berry f-^in. 

 diam., globose, almost inferior ; the depressed conical vertex opening by .5 hairy valves 

 loculioidally. Seeds angular, as of Gaultheria. — This berry is quite unlike the fruit 

 of Gaultheria and Biph/coxia and probably indicates a new genus, which cannot be 

 founded without better flowers for examination. 



3. CASSZOFE, 27. Don. 



Small, fastigiate shrubs. Leaves smaU, rigid, densely imbricate, adpressed to 

 the branches, entire or ciliate. Pedicels axillary, bracteate at the base only, 

 curved iu flower, erect in fruit. Sepals 5, free, thickened at the base, imbricate 

 in bud ; spreading and unaltered in fruit. Corolla campanulate, white or pink ; 

 lobes 5, short, recurved. Stamens 10 (or 8-12), slightly attached to the base 

 of the corolla, filaments linear ; anthers ovoid, truncate, with 1-2 horns divari- 

 cate from beneath the summit of each cell. Ovary 5-celled ; style' cyliudric, 

 stigma simple;, ovules many in each cell. Capsule globose, apex depressed, 

 loculicidally 5-valved. Seeds minute, long-ellipsoid, somewhat curved ; outer 

 coat of long, somewhat loose cells. — Species 10, in the frigid regions of the 

 N. hemisphere. 



1. C. fastlgrlata, D. Don in Hdinh. FMl. Journ. xvii. (1834) 158; leaves 

 \ in. ovate-oblong, pedicels 0-J in. woolly. DC. Prodr.Vu. 611 ; Bot. Mag. t. 

 4796. Andromeda fastipiata. Wall. Oat. 764, and in Asiat. Mesearch. xiii. 394 

 and PI. As. Par. 61, t. 284; Boyle III. 260, t. 63, fig. 1. A. cupressiformis, 

 Wall. ; D. Don in. Mem. Wem. Soc. iii. 411, and Prodr. 150. 



AxpiNE Himalaya; alt. 10-14,000 ft., common from Kashmir to Bhotan. 



Forming dense tufts 6-12 in. high. Leaves somewhat 4-farionsly imbricate, 

 thirkened on the back, ciliate. Pedicels 2-4-nate or solitary. Sepals i-J in., 

 elliptic, acute, nearly glabrous ; margins scarious, often toothed. Corolla \-^ in., 

 widely campanulate, white. Filaments glabrous or sparingly pilose ; anthers truncate, 

 each cell 1-homed. — "Heather" (of English travellers).' 



