1S6 ericaceje. [ Philippia . 
Mauritius, on the higher mountains ; Pouce range, Grand Bassin, etc. Endemic. 
Bruyere des montagnes. 
2. P. m on tana, Klotzsch. ; Benth. in DC. Prod. viii. 295. Above a foot 
high, with crowded slender whitish branches. Leaves crowded, T V^- 
in. long, glossy, ligulate, rigidly coriaceous, 1-nerved, ascending and 
closely imbricated. Mowers 1-3, near the end of the branches in the 
axils of the leaves, on very short pedicels. Calyx-lobes oblong, rather 
unequal, the longest about as long as the corolla. Corolla under y^in. 
long. Filaments and anthers closely connate. Stigma just exserted. 
Mauritius ; only one small specimen seen in Mr. Bentham’s herbarium, received 
from De Candolle. It is a Bourbon plant (Boivin), and the names of the islands may 
have been crossed. 
3. P. brachyphylla, Benth. in DC. Prod. vii. 697. .Rising a few 
inches above the soil, producing very crowded erect branched pale 
branchlets -C in. thick. Leaves adpressed to the stems, glabrous, 
imbricated, in. long, 1-nerved, glossy. Flowers 1-3, near the end 
of the branchlets, on pedicels as long as the corolla. Calyx-lobes obtuse, 
subequal, shorter than the corolla, which is broadly campanulate, under 
a ^ in. deep. Stamens not seen. 
Mauritius, on the highest mountains. Endemic. This (and not P. montana) 
is most likely Salaxis montana , Bojer, Hort. Maur. 195, as we have it from Bojer, 
Bouton, and Judge Blackburn. 
2. AGAURIA, Hk. fil. 
Calyx campanulate, small, persistent, with 5 deltoid teeth ; aestivation 
valvate. Corolla ventricose, contracted at the mouth, with 5 short 
deltoid lobes. Stamens 10 ; filaments flattened, pilose ; anthers adnate, 
not tailed, each cell opening by a large oblique pore at the top. Ovary 
free, 5-celled ; ovules many in a cell ; style filiform ; stigma capitate. 
Fruit a globose capsule, with loculicidal dehiscence, and no central 
column ; placentas basilar. Seeds copious, with the testa produced 
into a wing beyond the nucleus at each end. — Shrubs with alternate 
entire coriaceous leaves, the flowers in copious racemes. Dtstrib. 
Continental Africa and Mascaren Isles. Species 3 or 4. 
1. A. salicifolia, HooTc.Jil. Gen. Plant, ii. 586. A much-branched 
glabrous shrub, 4-5 feet high. Leaves distinctly petioled, lanceolate, 
entire, acuminate, cuneate at the base, green above, pale beneath, 2-3 
in. long, in. broad. Flowers in abundant close subsecund axillary 
and terminal racemes 2-3 in. long ; pedicels spreading, £ in. long. 
Calyx broadly campanulate. Corolla oblong, purplish, in long. 
Fruit a globose glabrous capsule the size of a pea, splitting into 5 
valves, girt by the persistent clasping calyx. Andromeda salicifolia, 
Lam . ; Bot. Mag. tab. 3286. Leucothoe salicifolia, DC. Prod. vii. 602. 
Mauritius, in mountain woods of the Pouce, Montagne Ory, etc. A. pyrifolia , 
Pers., is a variety with oblong-lanceolate leaves f-1 inch broad. Also Madagascar, 
