A MANUAL FLORA 
OF 
MADEIRA. 
VOL. II.— PART I. 
Subclass III. COROLLIFLORiE ( continued ). 
Sect. B. Cal. -tube free or rarely and then only partly 
adnate at the base or downwards to the superior ov. ; 
limb inferior or very rarely (Samolus) half-sup. 
Cor. inferior or at most half-superior. Siam, 
mostly periyy nous and epipetalous or inserted on the 
cor., rarely almost or quite free and hypoyynous. 
Order LI. ERICACEAE. 
The Heath, Arbutus and Rhododendron Family. 
FI. perfect, mostly regular. Cal. wholly free persistent 4-5- 
partite, lobes distinct or only subcoherent at the base. Cor. 
hypogynous mostly gamopetalous and 4-5-fid, sometimes 4-5- 
partite or even 4-5-petalous, often persistent or marcescent, 
mostly regular, imbricate in bud. Stain, as many or twice as 
many as the lobes of cal. or cor., 1-2-seriate, mostly free and hy- 
pogynous or inserted with the cor. on an hypogynous disk below 
the ov., rarely subepipetalous or slightly adnate to cor. at its 
base ; anth. 2-celled, the cells opening by a terminal pore or 
slit, not homed at top but appendiculate or caudate sometimes 
at the base. Ov. superior free of 4-5 and 1-many-ovulate car- 
pels. St}de filiform, stigma capitate. Fr. capsular rarely bac- 
cate, cells 4 or 5 mostly many-seeded bursting loculicidally and 
septicidally with 4, 5, or 8-10 valves. Seeds mostly numerous 
minute pendulous from the central placentae, scrobiculate ; em- 
bryo straight axile in the fleshy albumen ; radicle superior near 
the hilum. — Subarborescent shr. with mostly evergreen rigid 
alternate entire sessile rarely opposite or whorled 1. without 
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