ARCTOSTAPHYLOS ERICACEAE 417 



GAULTHERIA 



obovate, obtuse or acutish, usually abruptly contracted below to a slender 

 petiole, not at all cuspidate, glabrous, dark green both sides : bracts acu- 

 minate-lanceolate, green and glandular : pedicels shorter than the bracts, 

 glabrous r filaments tomentose : ovary glabrous. Top of the Siskiyou 

 Mountains and southward. 



A. bracteata. Strictly branched from the base. 4-6 feet high, with 

 tomentose branchlets : leaves oblong, obtuse, obscurely cuspidate, minutely 

 tomentose, contracted below to a flatfish petiole : bracts foliaceous, lanceo- 

 late : pedicels pubescent, shorter than the bracts : filaments and ovary 

 densely hairy. Near Waldo, Josephine Co., Oregon. 



A. strigosa. Erect and loosely branching, 8-10 feet high, with densely 

 white-tomentose branchlets : leaves oblong or ovate, obscurely cuspidate, 

 usually rounded at the apex, minutely white-tomentose, light green, ab- 

 ruptly contracted below to a round petiole : bracts foliaceous, lanceolate, 

 strigose pubescent : pedicels shorter than the bracts, pubescent : filaments 

 sparingly hairy: ovary densely pubescent. In the mountains of Josephine 

 Co., Oregon. 



A. tomentosa Dougl. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1791. Erect, 3-10 feet high 

 with tomentose and setose-hispid branchlets : leaves oblong-ovate or oblong, 

 acute and cuspidate, densely tomentose, contracted below to a short setose- 

 hispid and tomentose petiole: bracts foliaceous, narrowly lanceolate, to- 

 mentose and ciliate : pedicels shorter than the bracts, tomentose : filaments 

 sparingly hairy : ovary densely tomentose. Rocky and sandy places, Brit. 

 Columbia to Oregon and perhaps farther south. 



Tribe ii, Andromedeae DC. Prodr. vii, 588. Shrubs ivith chiefly 

 alternate evergreen leaves. Corolla gamopetalous, deciduous. 

 Stamens twice as many as lobes of the corolla, more or less in- 

 cluded. Anthers opening at the top. Fruit a loculicidal chiefly 5- 

 celled and many-seeded capsule, the valves usually bearing the 

 partitions, tvhich separate from the persistent place ntiferons axis 

 'or columella. 



3 GAULTHERIA L. Gen. n. 551. 



Shrubs or undershrubs with broad evergreen leaves, and small 

 noddingHowers either solitary in the axils, or in axillary racemes. 

 Calyx 5-cleft or lobed, persistent. Corolla urn-shaped to cam- 

 panulate. Stamens 10 : filaments dilated toward the base : anther- 

 cells usually 3-pointed or 3-awned, and opening by a pore at the 

 top. Capsule 5-celled, depressed and umbilicate, many-seeded, 

 enclosed at maturity in the calyx, which enlarges and becomes 

 fleshy and berry-like after the corolla falls. 



* Corolla short-campanulate, 5-lobed : filaments glabrous : apex of 



the anthers obscurely 4-pointed. 



G. Myrsinites Hook. Fl. ii, 35, t. 129. Cespitose-procumbent or de- 

 pressed, glabrous, the flowering branches 1-5 inches long: leaves oval or 

 rounded, mostly only half-inch long: pedicels solitary in the axils, very 

 short, 3-5 bracteolate : corolla depressed-campanulate, little surpassing the 

 calyx : fruit scarlet, 2-3 lines in diameter. In forests on the high moun- 

 tains, Washington to California and the Rocky Mountains. 



G. ovatifolia Gray Proc. Am. Acad, xix, 84. Depressed-trailing with 

 ascending branches, with some at length rusty hairs, at least on the calyx : 

 leaves broadly ovate, or even subcordate, the largest an inch and a half 

 long, serrulate, dark green and shining; corolla campanulate, twice the 



