VACCINIUM LESCHENAULTII. (Nat. order Ericaceae.) 



VACCINIUM. Lindley. — GEST. CHAR. Calyx tube adnate, the limb of 4-5 teeth, corol superior, the tube ovate campanulate or shortly 

 cylindrical, the limb of 4-5 short lobes or teeth. Stamens double as many as the calyx teeth and corol lobes. Anther-cells elongated into long tubular 

 points and opening at the apex of these in oblique pores, ovary inferior 4-5 celled with several ovules in each cell attached to the centre of the axis, fruit a 

 berry. Trees or shrubs, leaves, alternate, flowers showy. 



VACCINIUM LiESCHENAULTII. (Wight.) A small or middling sized tree, young shoots puberulous at length glabrous, 

 leaves from oval to ovate, from pointed and mucronate to quite retuse at the apex, serrated, paler beneath, slightly puberulous on the 

 coata and vein3 when young at length quite glabrous, l|-2£ inches long by 1-1£ broad, venation peuniveined aud looped within the 

 margin, petals about 3 lines long puberulous, racemes axillary or terminal or ou leafless shoots, flowers pink very showy, pentamerous> 

 calyx-lobes ciliate and minutely greeu-gland tipped at the apex, filaments hairy dilated at the base narrowed upwards attached to near 

 the apex of the lower portion of the anther-cells just between the 2 prominent bristles, stigma with a few black erect hairs. Wight 

 Icones tab. 1188- V. arboreum, Lesh. not Michx. Agapetes ? arborea, Dim. in DG. Prod. vii. Andromeda symplocifolia, Wall. I. n. 

 1522. 



A very pretty tree abundant on the Nilgiris at the higher elevations, and on the Anamallays, Pulneys, and Ceylon mountains ; the fruit, 

 which is about as large as currants, is eaten, it is an agreeable acid and makes good tarts ; the tree is called Amloovan on the Nilgiris. The wood 

 is rose colored, with a red heart, wavy grained and pleasant to work, and would be excellent for cabinet work, 



Aualyiis. 



1. A flower bud. 



2. A full flower. 



3. The same, corol removed. 



4. The tubular corol removed and opened out. 



5. A flower, corol and all the stamens except one removed, to show the disk, style, and insertion of the stamens. 



6 A. Anthers, front view, showing the hairy filament dilated at its base and the cells elongating into terminal tubular 



points with a pore at the apex, 

 SB. Anther back view, showing the filament adnate to the cells just between the 2 bristles. 

 6(7. Anther, side view. 



7. Ovary cut vertically. 



8. Ovary cut transversely. (Drawn from fresh specimens.) 



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