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Gaultheria.| . ERICACEAE. 689 
A genus of nearly 100 species, mainly American, stretching from Oregon to Cape 
Horn, a few found in Australia and New Zealand, some in India and the Malay 
Archipelago, and one in Japan. In the New Zealand species the calyx is sometimes 
enlarged and succulent and sometimes dry and unaltered when the fruit is ripe, and 
occasionally the capsule may be slightly succulent, thus breaking down the distinction 
between Pernettya and Gaultheria. One of the species extends to Tasmania, the 
remainder are endemic. 
* Leaves alternate. Flowers axillary, the tips of the branches sometimes forming 
leafy racemes. 
Stems erect, large. Leaves variable, orbicular to oblong-lanceolate _ 1. G. antipoda. ~ 
Stems prostrate, small. Leaves orbicular to oblong-lanceolate — .. / 2. G. depressa. 
Stems slender, flexuous, often intertwined. Leaves linear-lanceolate (3. G. perplera. | 
** Leaves alternate. Flowers in axillary and terminal racemes. 
Leaves cblong-lanceolate to broad-oblong + oe a eS rupestris, . 
Leaves ovate-oblong, cordate at the base 1 a .. Ld G. fagifolia, | 
*** Leaves opposite. Flowers in axillary and terminal often compound racemes. 
Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, cordate at the base, sessile ../ 6. G. oppositifolia. . 
‘we. G. antipoda Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) n. 196.— An erect or prostrate 
much or sparingly branched rigid shrub, very variable in size and habit, 
on the mountains frequently only a few inches high, in lowland situations _— 
2-4{t. or more. Branches stout, sometimes glabrous, but usually more 
or less clothed with blackish or yellow-brown bristles intermixed with a 
short and fine white pubescence. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, 
variable in size, 4-2in., orbicular or broadly oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 
obtuse or acute, bluntly serrate, very thick and coriaceous, conspicuously 
veined, glabrous except the petioles, which are hispid-pubescent. Flowers 
small, white or red, axillary and solitary, often crowded at the ends of the 
branches, which thus form leafy racemes; peduncles short, curved, bracteo- 
late, pubescent. Calyx 5- or rarely 6-lobed; lobes ovate-oblong, acute. 
Corolla -4,-}in. long. Capsule usually included in the enlarged and 
succulent calyx-lobes, forming a red or white globose berry-like fruit } in. 
diam., but frequently the lobes remain dry and unaltered—A. Rich. FI. 
Nouv. Zel. (1832) 211, t. 28; A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) n. 417; Raoul Chow 
(1846) 44; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 161; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 174; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 405. ee ARE pena Ao. Gerke) 
Var. erecta. — Erect, much branched. Leaves large, $-2in., broadly oblong or eer 
orbicular.—G. epiphyta Col. im Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii (1890) 474. vag 
Var. fluviatilis Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 16]. — Erect, virgately branched. KG i° g 
Leaves large, 4-2in., cblong-lanceolate or lanceolate. Flowers small, almost racemed, 
on longer and more slender pedicels.—G. fluviatilis A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) n. 419. 
NortH anpD SoutH IsLanps, Stewart Isitanp: Both varieties abundant through- 
out, from the North Cape southwards. Sea-level to 4000 ft. 
A variable plant in most of its characters, particularly in the fruiting-calyx, which 
may he greatly enlarged, highly coloured, and succulent, or may remain dry and 
unaltered. Both succulent and dry calyces may be found on the same branch, 
2. G. depressa Hook. f. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi (1847) 267.—Depressed 
or prostrate. Stems 6-9in. long, creeping and rooting, naked below. 
Branches numerous, much divided, horizontally spreading, 1—41n. long, 
glabrous or puberulous or more usually clothed with fulvous bristles. 
Leaves alternate, +-41in. long, shortly petiolate, orbicular-obovate to 
broadly oblong, thick and coriaceous, coarsely serrate, teeth often bristle- 
