176 xlii. erice.e. [ Gaultheria . 
branches) at the ends of the branches. Flowers numerous, small, as in G. 
rupestris. Calyx-lobes not becoming fleshy. Capsule small. 
Northern Island : Mount Egmont, Bidwill ; cliffs between Hawkes’ Bay and Taupo, 
Colenso. 
2. PEENETTYA, Gaud. 
Characters of Gaultheria , but the calyx is unchanged, or but slightly en- 
larged after flowering, and the fruit is baccate instead of capsular. 
A large South American genus, and there confined to the Andes, Chili and Fuegia. 
1. P. tasmanica, Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. t. 73. A very small, creep- 
ing, perfectly glabrous plant. Stems slender, 2-3 in. long, without hairs or 
bristles. Leaves L in. long, sessile, oblong, subacute, subveined, coriaceous, 
very obscurely crenate. Flowers axillary, solitary, larger than the leaves. 
Pedicels as long as the leaves, with 3-5 obtuse, imbricate bracts at the base. 
Corolla campanulate. 
Middle Island : amongst grass on the Hopkins river, alt. 2500 ft., Haast. 
This is a most puzzling plant, and seems to unite the genera Pernettya and Gaultheria, 
as much as do the varieties of G. antipoda, mentioned under that plant. The Tasmanian 
specimens have no awns to the anther-cells, the New Zealand ones have very short awns : the 
plants are otherwise undistinguishable. They differ from the small states of G. antipoda, 
with baccate fruit and slightly swollen calyx, only in the minute more obtuse leaves, and total 
absence of black bristles on the branches ; and these latter are so very rare in some states of 
G. antipoda, that I cannot doubt but that all will prove one plant, however anomalous this 
opinion may appear. 
3. CYATHODES, Br. 
Shrubs. Leaves acerose, rigid, pungent or oblong and obtuse, glaucous, 
parallel-veined below, and not sheathing at the base. Flowers small, white 
or yellowish. — Pedicels covered with bracts, which become larger upwards, 
and hide the calyx. Corolla funnel-shaped or urceolate ; tube scarcely longer 
than the calyx, glabrous; lobes glabrous or bearded. Ovary with 3-10 1- 
ovuled cells. Drupe with a bony 3-10-celled nut. 
A large Australian and Pacific island genus. 
Leaves -g— ^ in., very narrow, with rigid, pungent points 1. C. acerosa. 
Leaves in., narrow, linear-oblong, subacute 2. C. roiusta. 
Leaves in., narrow, linear, patent or recurved, obtuse .... 3. C. empetrifolia. 
Leaves in., linear or oblong, suberect, obtuse. Corolla bearded . 4. C. Colensoi. 
1. C. acerosa, Br . ; — -FI. N. Z. i. 163. A large shrub or small tree, 
with blackish branches. Leaves spreading, about in. long, acerose or 
very narrow linear or lanceolate, pungent, margins often recurved and ciliate, 
under side glaucous, with 3-7 parallel veins, of which the outer often branch 
outwards. Flowers solitary, minute. Bracts and calyx-lobes obtuse. Corolla 
glabrous ; lobes spreading. Drupe red, ^ in. diam. 
Var. a. Leaves usually only i in. long, linear, lateral nerves often branching outwards. — 
C. acerosa, Br. 
Var. f}. Leaves often J-f in. long, with longer pungent points, nerves all simple. — C. oxy- 
cedrus, Br. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 164. 
Abundant throughout the islands, Banks and So/ander, etc. ; ascending the mountains 
in a stunted form. The same branch bears minute, dry, and large succulent drupes. Both 
varieties are common New Zealand plants. 
