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50. VACCINIACE^E. 
long and in. broad), sometimes more deeply or coarsely 
sometimes finely serrate, all distinctly stalked, petioles fine and 
slender. FI. minute deep v. or steelly b. in dense terminal 
globose or semiglobose cymes, except in col. closely resembling 
those of Valeriana rubra L. Cal. minute with 5 short linear 
teeth, the whole only 1 mill. long. Cor. small and slender 3 or 
4 lines long ; the tube very finely filiform or capillary, limb 
minute in 5 short lanceolate or elliptic lobes scarcely more than 
4 line long. Style far exserted finely filiform, as long as the 
cor., with a capitate minute 3-lobed stigma. 
Order L. VACCIXIACE.E. 
The Whortleberry Family. 
FI. perfect regular. — Cal. -tube adnate to the ov., limb supe- 
perior free 4-6-lobed. Cor. gamopetalous inserted at top of 
cal. -tube 4-6-fid caducous, the lobes or divisions alternate with 
those of the cal., imbricate in bud. Stam. twice as many 
as the lobes of cal. or cor., in a single row, calycifloral or free 
and inserted with cor. on an epigynous or perigynous disk at 
top of cal. -tube or base of its limb, not epipetalous or adnate to 
the cor. ; fil. free or rarely united or monadelphous ; anth. free 
terminal vertical 2-eelled, the cells distinct upwards and pro- 
duced at top into 2 hornlike tubes, each ending in an orifice or 
pore. Ov. inferior, crowned by the persistent cal. -limb in fr., 
4-10-celled and composed of 4-10 multi ovulate carpels alter- 
nate with the cal. -lobes ; style single, stigma mostly capitate. 
Fr. berry-like juicy or fleshy. Seeds small numerous, embryo 
minute with fleshy albumen. — Shr. with slightly bitter sub- 
astringent watery not milky juices, simple alternate wli orled or 
opposite exstipulate mostly coriaceous evergreen 1. and race- 
mose or solitary 11. mostly red or greenish. Fr. edible acid 
subastringent cooling disinfectant antiscorbutic. 
1. Vaccinium. Cal. 4-5-lobed, lobes short tooth-like, some- 
times obsolete. Cor. urceolate or campanulate sometimes 
cylindric, 4-5-lobed or toothed. Stam. 8-10. Berry glo- 
bose 4-5-celled many-seeded. — Erect, shr. 
1. V. MADKREN8F. Link. JJ veir a (tr.), Uva da Serra (fr.). 
Shr. or subarborescent, mostly evergreen ; 1. coriaceous not de- 
ciduous, oblong or lanceolate acute at eacli end, finely serru- 
late, the midrib pubescent at the base beneath like the short 
petioles and young shoots, all the rest smooth ; fl. drooping in 
leafy-bracteate rac. below the leafy ends of the branches; cor. 
globoso-campanulate or ovoidal not more than twice the length 
of cal., anthers awnless, style scarcely exserted, about the 
