462 Lxxxii. ERiCACEiE, (C. B. Clarke.) [Bijjlarche. 



7. DXPX.ARCKE, H.f. ^ T. 



Sniall low shruts. Leaves small, sessile, crowded, linear-oblong-, coriaceous, 

 serrate or long-ciliate, subacute or ending in a gland. Flowers small, rose- 

 coloured, subcapitate, terminal; bract ciliate, ovate; bracteoles lateral, linear, 

 shorter than the sepals. Sepals 6, coriaceous, ciliate. Corolla deciduous ; tube 

 cylindric ; lobes 6, obovate, patent. Stamens 10, included ; 5 inserted high on 

 the corolla, alternate with its lobes ; 6 alternate basal or hypogynous ; 

 anthers elliptic, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 5-celled ; style short, stigma 

 capitate 5-lobed ; ovules numerous in each cell. Capsule globose, enclosed by the 

 calyx, 5-celled, septicidally 6-valved ; the wall of the cells splitting into two 

 layers, the outer of which breaks up in appearance locuUcidaUy. Seeds very 

 many, obovate-cuneate, compressed ; testa of lax tissue. — Species 2, Himalayan. 



1. D. multiflora, H.f. Sf T. in Hook. Kew Journ. vi. (1854) 383, t. 11, 

 fig. A ; branches glandular-pubescent, flowers many densely capitate, sepals 

 linear-oblong subacute, lower 5 stamens attached to the corolla. 



SiKKiM Himalaya; Lachen, alt 11,000 ft.., J^ D. H. 



Leaves t by ^ '°' Viewers 8-20 forming a globose head ^ in. diam. Peduncle 

 in fruit elongate, pubescent ; capsules ^ in. diara., spicate. 



2. D. pauciflora, H.f. Sr T. m Hook. Kew Jow-n. vi. (1864) 383, t. 11, 

 fig. B ; branches glabrous or nearly so, flowers terminal few, sepals ovate-oblong 

 obtuse, lower 5 stamens free from the corolla. 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; Kankola, alt. 15,000, J. D. H. 



Closely resembling D. multiflora, but smaller in rU its parts. Leaves ^— J in. 

 Flowers 2-6 at the apex of the branch. Stamevs of the lower series often left sur- 

 rounding the capsule after the corolla has fallen, 



8. BKODOSEITSROZT, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes very small; often scaly or aromatic. Leaves 

 alternate, often clustered towards the ends of the branches, rarely subopposite 

 or falsely whorled, entire, coriaceous. Flowers fascicled or subcorymbose, 

 terminal, rarely solitary or axillary ; bracts broad, generally caducous ; bracteoles 

 linear. Calyx 5-lobed, sometimes small or obsolete, rarely saucer-shaped, per- 

 sistent. Corolla campanulate, widely funnel-shaped or cylindric, tube long or 

 short, lobes 5-10. Stamens 5-18, usually 10 ; anthers oblong, dehiscing by 

 terminal pores. Ovary 5 -SO-ceHed ; style long or short, stigma capitate ; ovules 

 very many in each cell. Capsule short woody, or elongate thinner, 4— 20-celled, 

 septicidally 4^20-valved from the apex, valves 'breaking away from the placentas. 

 Seeds yery many, ellipsoid, albuminous; testa close or loose, often shortly 

 crested, or tailed at one or both ends. — Species 180, in the Mts. of Europe, 

 Asia, Malaya and N. America. 



Subgenus I. Vireya (Gen. Blume Bijd. 854). Capmle elongate, ateute; 

 valves twisting after dehiscence, not woody ; placentae separating (leaving a 

 slender central axis) as five filiform ribs, attached at the apex. Seeds very long- 

 tailed at both ends, the tails many times longer than the seed. — Malayan 

 large shrubs ; leaves subopposite or almost whorled ; flowers in sessile terminal 

 umbels; bracts' caducous; exocarp often separating from the endocarp, dehiscing 

 irregularly or somewhat loculicidally. 



* Leaves spiinkled beneath with sessile rownd glandviar scales. 



1. B.. malayanum, Jack in Mai. Misc. ii. n. 7, 17; leaves lanceo,late 

 acute glabrous glandular-scaly beneath, corolla red, tube cylindric twice as long 



