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have  fallen  from  the  overhanging  trees.  The  flowers  are  white  or 
rose-tinged,  and  attain  a  length  of  1 or  2  cm.  The  pedicels  are 
only  two  or  three  mm.  long,  and  covered  with  rusty-brown  hairs,  as 
are  also  the  scaly  bracts  which  subtend  the  flowers.  The  calyx  is 
deeply  five-parted  and  the  segments  are  erect,  lanceolate,  entire, 
nearly  smooth,  about  the  length  of  the  corolla  tube,  pointed  and 
scale-like.  The  corolla  is  hypogynous,  salver-shaped,  and  the  lobes 
of  its  five-parted  limb  are  ovate,  entire,  obtuse  or  mucronate,  and 
alternate  with  the  segments  of  the  calyx.    The  tube  is  hairy  on  its 
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Fig.  2. 
interior.  The  androecium  consists  of  ten  stamens,  as  in  most  other 
Ericaceae,  and  they  appear  to  be  in  but  one  whorl,  though  prob- 
ably this  is  the  result  of  a  condensation  from  two. 
The  flowers,  according  to  the  investigations  of  Prof.  W.  P.  Wilson, 
are  really  dioecious,  though  most  of  them  still  possess  both  stamens 
and  pistils.  In  the  pistillate  flowers,  which  are  rose-colored,  the 
stamens  have  sometimes  completely  disappeared,  though  in  most 
instances  they  are  still  present,  but  functionless  and  smaller  than 
they  are  in  the  staminate  white  flowers.    The  staminate  flowers  differ 
