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XLII. ERICEiE. 
imbricate. Corolla usually tubular or campanulate, glabrous or bearded on 
the throat or on the lobes; lobes 5, generally short, imbricate or induplicate- 
valvate. Stamens 5-10, hypogynous or epipetalous. Anthers 1- or 2-celled, 
cells awned at the back or tip or awnless, opening by slits or terminal pores. 
Disk 5-10-lobed, or of 5 scales. Ovary 1-12-celled; style simple, stigma 
capitate or truncate, simple or lobed. Ovules 1 or many in each cell. Fruit 
a capsule berry or drupe, free or enclosed in the fleshy calyx. Seeds minute ; 
testa reticulate ; albumen copious, fleshy ; embryo small. 
A large Order, found in all parts of the world. 
Suborder I. Ericeae. — Stamens in the New Zealand genera hypogynous ; anthers 
2-celled , opening by pores. 
Capsule dry, 5-valved, often enclosed in the fleshy calyx .... 1. Gaultheria. 
Berry fleshy, with the small withered calyx at its base 2. Pernettya. 
Suborder II. Epacridese. — Stamens in the New Zealand genera epipetalous ; anthers 
\-celled. 
Fruit a drupe with a 1-10 -celled bony nut ; cells with 1 pendulous seed. 
Pedicels covered with imbricating bracts 3. Cyathodks. 
Pedicels with few bracts placed close under the calyx 4. Leucopogon. 
Fruit a drupe, with 5 or more minute \-seeded nuts 5. Pentachondra. 
Fruit a many-seeded capsule. 
Leaves not amplexicaul (except E. purpurascens) . Flowers solitary. 
Pedicels covered with imbricating bracts 6. Epacris. 
Leaves not amplexicaul. Flowers racemed. Bracts few or 0 . . 7. Archeria. 
Leaves with broad, sheathing bases 8. Dracophyllum. 
1. GAULTHERIA, Linn. 
Shrubs. Leaves coriaceous, toothed, alternate, rarely opposite, never 
sheathing at the base. Flowers white or pink, axillary solitary or racemose. — 
Calyx 5- or 6-lobed or -partite, often becoming fleshy and enclosing the cap- 
sule. Corolla ovoid or urceolate; mouth contracted; lobes 5, recurved. 
Stamens 10, included, hypogynous; filaments flat; anthers opening by 
pores, each pore with 1 or 2 awns. Disk cup-shaped, 10-lobed, or of 10 
glands. Ovary 5-celled; cells many-ovuled. Capsule free or enclosed iu 
the baccate calyx, 5-valved loculicidally ; valves separating from a central 
axis which bears the seeds ; sometimes the capsule becomes fleshy and inde- 
hiscent. 
A large genus, especially iu the American and Indian mountains, unknown in Europe and 
Africa, found also on the Australian and Tasmanian alps. The baccate calyx is a variable 
character in New Zealand, occurring in G. antipoda, sometimes on the same fruiting raceme 
with simple calyces, in which plant further, dry dehiscent, and baccate indehisceut capsules 
occur also on the same branch, thus uniting the characters of Pernettya and Gaultheria. 
Leaves alternate. Flowers axillary, or racemes leafy 1. G. antipoda. 
Flowers racemose. Leaves lanceolate oblong or rounded ... 2 . G. rupestris. 
Flowers racemose. Leaves ovate-oblong, cordate 3. G.fagifolia. 
Leaves opposite, cordate. . Flowers racemose 4. G. oppositifolia. 
1. G. antipoda, Forst. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 161. A rigid bush, erect or 
prostrate, extremely variable in stature and habit. Branches pubescent, 
covered with scattered black or yellow-brown bristles. Leaves very coriaceous, 
veined, shortly petioled, orbicular oblong-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute 
