460 Lxxxii. EEiCACEJ!. (0. B. Clarke.) [Cassiope. 



2. C. sela^inoides, IT./. ^ T. in Hook. Kew Jowrn. vii. (1855) 126, t. 

 4 ; leaves ^-J in. elliptic-oblong, pedicels j-lj in. woolly. 



AtPiNE SiKKiM ; alt. 10-13,000 ft. ; Lachen, ,;■. D. H. ; Jongri, C. B. Clarke. 



Closely allied to C. fastigiata and hardly to be diagnosed by any teehnical cha- 

 racter ; but readily distinguishable by its much more slender stems and more elongate 

 pedicels. 



4. XiEUCOTHOE, D. Don. 



Glabrous shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled, oblong or lanceolate. Racemes 

 axillary and solitary or terminal and corymbose ; pedicels bracteate and 1-2- 

 bracteolate. Calyx 5-fid or -partite ; segments open or imbricate in bud. 

 Corolla urceolate, 5-fld, white. Stamens 10 ; anthers oblong, not horned on the 

 back, sometimes aristate at the apex. Ovary 5-celled ; style cylindric, stigma 

 simple ; ovules many. Capsule depressed-globose, loculicidally 5-valved. 

 Seeds many, compressed, narrowly winged ; testa laxly reticulate.— Species 7, 

 North American, with 1 Japanese, 1 Himalayan. 



Zi. Griffithlana, Clarke ; leaves lanceolate acuminate at both ends 

 subentire coriaceous, calyx-teeth triangular. Gaultheria sp., Griff'. Itin. Notes, 

 138, n. 606 Pieris Griffithlana, Hook.f. in Herb. 



Bhotan ; towards Sanah, alt. 6800 ft., Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3485). 



A shrub ; with lax, flexuose, pendent branches, and black-green leaves (Griffith). 

 Griffith's examples (in late fruit) are altogether glabrous. Leaves 5 J by If in., some- 

 times almost caudate-acuminate, entire or minutely acutely serrulate upwards, 

 punctate beneath ; petiole y in. Racemes 3-5 in., axillary and corymbose at the ends 

 of the branches, dense ; pedicels J in. Calyx-teeth Yg~ii i°.> subobtuse, united at the 

 base. Fruit J in. diam., depressed-globose, glabrous. Seeds Jj in. diam., orbicular, 

 much compressed, outer coat white, margined by closely-placed long glistening scale- 

 like papillae. — Though the flowers are unknown, this plant (from the capsule and 

 seeds) can belong to no known genus except Leticothoe. 



5. PXERXS, L>. Don. 



Trees or shrubs; branches terete. Leaves alternate, petioled, persistent, 

 entire or serrulate. Racemes axillary or panicled at the ends of the branches ; 

 pedicels bracteate and 1-2-bracteolate. Calyx 5-fid or -partite ; segments open 

 or valvate in the bud. Corolla ovoid ; lobes 5, short, recurved. Stamens 10 ; 

 filament with 2 horns divaricate from its apex (0 in P. villosa) ; anther-cells 

 ovoid, truncate. Ovary globose, 5-oelled ; style cylindric, stigma capitellate ; 

 ovules very many in each cell. Capsule globose, loculicidally S-valved. Seeds 

 many, linear-oblong, falcate, not winged ; testa loose. — Species 10 ; Himalaya, 

 Birma, Japan and K.E. America. 



1. P. ovallfolia, D. Don in Edinb. Phil. Jowrn. xvii. (1834) 159 ; leaves 

 ovate or elliptic acute entire, calyx-teeth triangular-lanceolate, corolla pubescent 

 without, filament 2-horned at the apex. DC. Prodr. vii. 699 ; Loud. Arb. Brit. 

 570, fig. 1070. Andromeda ovalifolia, Wall. Cut. 763 and in Asiat. Research, xiii. 

 391, with Jiff. ; Don Prodr. 148 ; Wigitt Ic. t. 1199 ; Cleghorn in Agi-i-Hort. 

 Soc. Calc. Journ. xvi. 260, tiiith jig. ; Brand. For. Fl. 280 ; Kurz in Journ. As. 

 Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 216 and For. Fl. ii. 92. A. elliptica, Sieb. <j- Zucc. Fl. Jap. 

 Fam. Nat. ii. 126.— Thibaudia, Oriff. Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 514. 



Tbmpiseatb Himalaya; alt. 3-8000 ft., from Kashmir to Bhotan, common. 

 Khasia Mrs. ; alt. 3-5000 ft., common. British Bibma. — Disteib. Japan. 



A tree, 20-40 ft., or shrub. Leaves 3-7 by 1-4 in., rounded at the base, glabrous 

 or pilose beneath; petiole J-^ in. Racemes 4-!0 in., simple, rarely (by the suppression 

 of leaves towards the ends of the branches) appearing panicled, more or less pubea- 



