ì . TTahlenbergia saxícola, B r.; glabra, scapigera, caule abbreviato simplici v. decumbente ramoso,
foliis ad apices ramulorum confertis v. omnibus radicalibus petiolatis liueari-spatliulatisve obtuse dentatis,
peduncuKs scapiformibus gracilibus elongatis unifloris nudis v. basin versus 1 -foliolatis, floribus magnis 4- 5-
fidis, capsula subglobosa. Wablenbergia albo-marginata. Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 818. Campanula saxícola,
Br. Prodr. p . 562. Streleskia? Noiis in Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 6. js. 266.
H ab. Mountains of tbe Northern and Middle Islands. Tongarb-o and Nelson, B idm ll; Ruahine
range, Colenso; Port Cooper, Otago, and Milford Sound, .
It is difficult to conceive this plant to be a variety of IF. gracilis, but, as Mi-. Brown remarks, they are vei-y
closely aUied, however different they may look. It is a remarkably beautiful species or variety as the case may be,
inhabiting the mountains of New Zealand and Tasmania, differing couspienously from TF, gracilis in the short stems
and crowded leaves, which, in unbranched specimens, spring immediately from the root, and are spread out on the
ground in a stellate manner, and m branched ones take the same appearance at the ends of the procumbent
branches. In this state, and when the scapes are leafless, the plant has a totally different character from any variety
of JF. g r a c ilis but in some specimens from Milford Sound the stem is drawn out to 6 inches, with the leaves
scattered along it, and running up the long scape.—Zmtiea 1 -2 inches long, petiolate, Ibiear-spathulate or lanceolate,
toothed, sinuate, or entire, with sometimes white cartilaginous margins, often thick and coriaeeous in very
alpine specimens. Scapes stout or slender, solitary, 3-7 inches long. Ocarg turgid. Corolla large, white, U-f
inch long, much larger than in any New Zealand specimen of JF. gracilis, but smaller than in many common Tasmanian
states of that plant, four- to five-cleft in New Zealand, four-cleft, according to Brown, in Tasmania. Capsule
rounded.—Much stress is laid, in the ‘ leones Plantarum,’ on the white cartilaginous margins of the leaf of
the plant there figured, which I consider the same as this, but JF. gracilis itself presents tbe same character in
many of its usual states, as described under var. y. littoralis, Br. Prodr. Those who have been accustomed to
study the varieties of the English Blue-beU (Campanula rotundifolia) wUl understand how this scapigerous plant,
with petiolate radical leaves, may become elongated, acquire a branched leafy stem, and bear many terminal pedunculate
flowers. I was so far myself misled by this plant as to describe what I now suspect to be a variety of it
from Tasmania, as a new genus of Loleliaceæ! under the name o f Streleskia ; the latter Order and Campanulacece
are very closely albed (united by many), and the evident claw terminating two of the anthers in Streleskia induced
me to place it in LobeUaceoe.
-Nat. O rd . XLIX. ERICEÆ, Juss.
Gen. I. G.AULTHERI.4, L.
Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla ovata v. urceolaris, ore contracta, breviter 5-fida ; lobis recurvis. Stamina 10 ;
filamenta plana, basi dilatata, hypogyna v. imo corollæ inserta ; antherarum loculi biaristati. Ooarmm 5-
loculare, basi glandulis 10 liberis connatisve sufl'ultum. Capsula interdum calyce baccato inclusa, 5-locularis,
loculicide 5-valvis. Placentæ imæ columnæ adnatæ. Semina angulata; testa reticulata.
Rigid, branching, evergreen (sometimes prostrate) shrubs, or smab trees, with alternate, coriaceous, reticulated,
often glossy, toothed or crenate leaves, and often setose branchlets. Flowers axillary or tei-minal, solitary or in few-
or many-flowered racemes, white, succeeded by dry capsules or fleshy berries. Calyx quinqiiefid, often swelling round
the capsule and enclosing it. Corolla turgid, urceolate, with a small five-lobed mouth. Stamens ten, included;
filaments flat, dilated below, often hairy ; anther-lobes elongated upwards, where they open by a pore, and are each
terminated by two bristles. Ovary five-cebed, surrounded at the base by flve glands, or a ten-lobcd disc. Capsule
smab,-coriaceous, quite free or sun-ounded by tbe persistent calyx, which sometimes becomes fleshy and forms
a berry. When this is the case, the capsule, though enclosed in the calyx, is free except at the point of attachment,
splitting down the back of tbe cells. Seeds numerous, minute, attached to placental at the base of each ceU. The
placental are united to a central column, which remains after the valves separate.—This is a very extensive genus,
especially in damp mountainous regions of the Tropics ; it is also found in temperate North and Antarctic Amenca, but
not in Europe. Northern Asia, or in Africa. A few species are found in Tasmama. The berried fruit, arising from the
enlargement of the calyx, though a prominent feature in many of the species, and one on which the genus has been
made mainly, if not wholly, to depend, to distinguish it from Andromeda, Fieris, etc., is a character of very minor importance
; it is not accompanied by any others whereby the speeies of each may be recognized before coming into
fruit, and is besides variable in degree; and in both G. antipoda and G.fluviatilis capsular and berried fruit may be
found on the same branch, both being perfectly ripe. (Named in honour of M. M. Gautier, a French physician,
who settled in Canada, and wrote a work on the Sugar-maple.)
j a. Leaves
ixillary, sometimes numerous towards the ends of the branches, wliich
become leafy racemes.
1. Gaultheria antipoda, F o rs t.; fruticosa, vage divaricatim ramosa, ramulis pubescenti-tomentosis et
setosis, foliis late ovatis oblongis lanceolatisve obtusis serratis, floribus 5-6-meris axfllaribus solitariis breve
pedicellatis, pediceUo pubescente bracteolato, calyce baccato v. immutato. Forst. Prodr. A. Bich. Flora.
A. Cunn. Prodr. Gaultheria erecta. Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic.
Yar. a; frutex erectus, ramosus, ramulis pubescenti-tomentosis, foliis late oblongis rotundatisve
elliptico-lanceolatisve.
Var. fluviatilis; frutex erectus, virgatus, fobis elliptico- v. lineari-lanceolatis, floribus parvis versus
apices ramulorum subracemosis, pedicellis longioribus glabratis. G. fluviatilis, A. Cunn. Prodr.
Yar. 7 . depressa; fruticulus depressus, vage divaricatim ramosus, ramulis setis fulvis onustis pedunculisque
pubescentibus, foliis latis angustisve, floribus axillaribus, calycibus fructiferis valde auctis. G.
depressa, Nobis in Hook. Lond. Joum, Bot. v. 6.yi. 267.
Yar. 8. microphjlla ; fruticulus prostatus, vage ramosus, foliis rigide coriaceis ovatis lineari-lanceola-
tisve 2-4 lin. longis, pedunculis pubescentibus glabratisve.
Yar. 6. ciliata; foliis parvis coriaceis lanceolatis serratis, dentibus setigeris.
H ab . Tbrougbout tbe Islands, abundant. Banks and Solander, etc. Yar. ¡3- In shaded places. Var. 7 ,
S, and e. In mountainous localities.
An exceedingly common and variable plant. Stems usually 2-3 feet high, but prostrate on the mountains.
Branches spreading, pubescent, and also covered more or less thickly with oppressed black or yeUow-browii bristles.
Leaves coriaceous, shortly petiolate, orbicular, oblong, liiiear-laiiceolate or elliptical, blunt, sharp, or acuminate, 2-4
lines long in var. micvphylla, i - f inch in vars. a and ¡3, bluntly serrate, the teeth terminated by a bristle in var. 1.
Flowers axillary, solitary, few, or crowded towards the ends of tbe branclies. wliich become leafy racemes, especially
ill var. (3, small, white. Peduncles curved, pubescent, longer and glabrous in var. 13 and some mountain states.
Calyx five- rarely six-lobed; lobes red at the tips, often swelling round the capsule, sometimes as large as a wild
cheriy, often remaining quite iinclianged.—I have reduced Mr. Cunningham’s G. fluviatilis to a variety of the
G. antipoda with no hesitation; also the alpine Tasmanian G. depressa, which has been found abundantly in the
Middle Island by Mr. Bidwill and Dr. Lyall
§ b. Leaves alternate. Flowers in axillary or terminal, bracteolate, leafless, many-flowered, simple or branched
racemes.
2. Gaultheria rupestris, Br.; frutex glaberrimus, ramulis rigidis setosis glabratisve, fobis breve petiolatis
crassis coriaceisque oblongis ellipticis lineari-oblongisve subacutis acuminatisve crenato-dentatis,
racemis terminalibus axillaribusque elongatis glaberrimis pubescentibusve, pedicelbs basi bracteolatis, floribus
O T-,