47. ERICACKi:. 
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• Ajiihers opening by pares. 
Tribe I. ARBUTJEuE. Fr. baccate, fleshy, superior. Disk 
hypogjuous. Petals cohering. 
1. Abbutus. Cal. 5-parted. Cor. globose or ovoid with a 
' small contracted o-cleft reflexed border, deciduous. Stam. 
10, with flattened filaments. .\nth. compressed, with 2 
pores at the apex, fixed at tlie back beneath the apex and 
there furnished with 2 reflexed awns. Berri/ globose, 
tuhercled ; cells 5, many-seeded. 
2. Ahctostaphylos. Fr. with 5 1-seeded cells, smooth. 
Otherwise like Arhutus. 
Tr. n. EJRICE^E. Fr. capsular, dry, superior. Anth. 2-celled. 
Disk hj;pogyaous. Testa close. Petals cohering. 
3. A>T)H05iEDA. Caps, of 5 cells and 5 valves. Otherwise 
like Arhutus. 
4. Calll^xa. Ccd. ^-parted, membranous, coloured, longer 
than the 4-cleft bellshaped persistent but fading corolla, 
sun-ounded by 4 gTeeu bracts. Stam. 8, with dilated fila- 
ments. Caps. 4-ceIled ; dissepiments adhering to the axis ; 
valves opening at the dissepiments and separate from them. 
5. Ehica. Cal. 4-parted. Cor. bellshaped or ovoid, often 
venti-icose, 4-toothed, persistent, fading. Stam. 8. Caps. 
4-ceUed ; valves opening between the dissepiments and carry- 
ing a paH with them. 
6. Phtllodoce. Cal. b-parted. Cor. ovoid, deciduous; 
mouth contracted, 5-toothed. Stam. 10, included ; Jilaments 
slender, longer than the anthers; cells short, truncate, open- 
ing by pores at the apex. Stigtna pieltate zcith 5 tubercles. 
Caps. o-ceUed with 5 valves opening at the dissepiments. 
7. Dabeocia. Cal. 4-cleft. Cor. ovoid, ventricose, limb 4- 
toothed. Stam. 8, included ; Jilaments flattened, shorter than 
the linear anthers which are sagittate below ; cells loosened 
and opening by oblique pores at the apex. Stignut simple, 
truncate. Caps. 4-ceUed with 4 valves opening at the dis- 
sepiments. 
8. Azalea. Cal. 5-parted. Cor. bellshaped, 5-cleft. Stam. 
5, equal, shorter than the corolla; anth. roundish; cells 
opening by a longitudinal fissure. Stigma capitate. Caps. 
2 — 3-ceIled with 2 or 3 bijid valves whose injlexed edges foi-m 
the double partitions. 
Tr. m. VACCINIE^. Fr. baccate, fleshy, inferior. Disk 
epigynAis. Petals cohering. 
