2. Wahlenbergia saxícola, Br. ; glabra, scapigera, caule abbreviato simplici v. decumbente ramoso,
foliis ad apices ramulorum confettis v. omnibus radicalibus petiolatis lineari-spatbulatisve obtuse dentatis,
pedunculis scapiformibus gracilibus elongatis unifloris nudis v. basin versus 1 -foliolatis, floribus magnis 4- 5-
fidis, capsula subglobosa. Wahlenbergia albo-marginata, Eooh. Ic. P la n t, t. 818. Campanula saxioola,
B r . Prodr. p . 5 6 2 . Streleskia? Nobis in Bond. Journ. B o t. v. 6 .p . 266.
H a b . Mountains of tb e N o rth e rn and Middle Islands. Tongarii-o and Nelson, Bidw iU ; Enahiiie
range, Colenso; P o rt Cooper, Otago, and Milford Sound, Byall.
I t is difficult to conceive this plant to be a variety of W. gracilis, but, as Mr. Brown remarks, they are very
closely aUied, however different they may look. I t is a remarkably beautiful species or variety as the ease may be.
inhabiting the mountains of New Zealand and Tasmania, differing conspicuously from TF. gracilis in the short stems
and crowded leaves, which, in ulrbranched specimens, spring immediately from the root, and are spread out on the
grourrd in a stellate manner, and in 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 totaRy different character from any variety
of TP. gracilis; hut in some specimens from Milford Sound the stem is drawn out to 6 ruches, with the leaves
scattered along it, and rnnning up the long scape.—Zmaes i - 2 inches long, petiolate, linear-spathuhate or lanceolate,
toothed, sinuate, or entire, with sometimes white cartilaginous margins, often thick and coriaceous in verv
alpine specimens. Scapes stout or slender, solitary, 3 -7 inches long, Ovaiy turgid. CoroUa large, white,
inch long, much larger than in any New Zealand specimen of TP. 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 TP, gracilis itself presents the same character in
many of its usual states, as described under var, y. liUoralis, Br. Prodr. Those who have been accustomed to
study the varieties ot the English Blue-beU {Campanula rotundifolia) wül 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 Lobeliacece! under the name o t Streleskia ; the latter Order and Campanulaceoe
are very closely allied (united by many), and the evident claw terminating two of the anthers in Streleskia induced
me to place it in Lobeliaceoe.
N a t . O e d . XLIX. ERICEÆ, Juss.
Geu. I . G A U L T H E E IA , I .
Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla ovata v. urceolaris, ore contracta, breviter 5-fida; lobis recurvis. Stamina 10 ;
filamenta plana, basi düatata, hypogyna v. imo corollæ inserta ; anthorarum loculi biaristati. Ovarimn 1-
loculare, basi glandulis 10 liberis connatisve sufl'ultum. Capsula interdum calyce baccato inclusa, 5-locularis,
locuEcide 5-valvis. P la cen ta imæ columnæ adnatæ. Semina an g u la ta ; te sta reticulata.
Rigid, branching, evergreen (sometimes prostrate) shrubs, or small trees, with alternate, coriaceous, reticulated,
often glossy, toothed or crenate leaves, and often setose branchlets. Plowers axillary or tennmal, solitary or in fewer
many-flowered racemes, white, succeeded by dry capsules or fleshy berries. Calyx quinquefid, often swelling round
the capsule and enclosing it. CoroUa 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 arc each
terminated by two bristles. Ovary five-celled, surrounded at the base by flve glands, or a ten-lobed disc. Capsule
small,-coriaceous, quite free or surrounded by the 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 the cells. Seeds numerous, minute, attached to plácente at the base of each cell. The
placentæ 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 America, 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 oalyx, 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, Pieris, etc.. is a character of very minor importance
; it is not accompamed by any others whereby the species 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.)
5 a. Leaves alternate. Flowers solitary, axiUary, sometimes numerous towards the ends o f the branches, which
become leafy racemes.
1. Gau lth eria antipoda, F o rst. ; fruticosa, vage divaricatim ramosa, ramulis pubescenti-tomentosis et
setosis, fohis la te ovatis oblongis lanceolatisve obtusis serratis, floribus 5 -6 -m e ris axülaribus solitarüs breve
pediceUatis, pediceUo pubescente bracteolato, calyce baccato v. immutato. Forst. Prodr. A . Bich. Flora.
A. Cunn. Prodr. Gaultheria erecta. B a n k s et Sol. M S S . et Ic.
Var. a ; fru tex erectus, ramosus, ramulis pubescenti-tomentosis, foliis late oblongis rotundatisve
eUiptico-lanceolatisve.
T a r. /3. flu v ia tilis ; frutex erectus, virgatus, fohis elliptico- v. lineari-lanceolatis, floribus parvis versus
apices ramulorum subracemosis, pedicellis longioribus glabratis. G. fluviatilis, A. Cunn. Prodr.
Var. 7 . depressa; fruticulus depressus, vage divaricatim ramosus, ramuhs setis fulvis onustis p ed u n culisque
pubescentibus, fohis latis angustisve, floribus axülaribus, calycibus fructiferis valde auctis. G.
depressa. Nobis in Hook. lo n d . Journ. Bo t. v. Q.p. 267.
Var. 8. microphylla ; fruticulus prostatus, vage ramosus, folüs rigide coriaceis ovatis lineari-lauceola-
tisve 2 -4 lin. longis, pedunculis pubescentibus glabratisve.
Var. e. c ilia ta ; foliis parvis coriaceis lanceolatis serratis, dentibus setigeris.
H a b . Tbro u g b o u t th e Islan d s, abundant. B a n k s a n d Solander, etc. Aar. 0 . I n shaded places. Aar. 7 ,
8, and e. I n mountainous localities.
An exceedingly common and variable plant. Stems usually 2 -3 feet high, but prostrate on the mountains.
Branclms spreading, pubescent, and also covered more or less thickly with appressed black or yellow-brown bristles.
Leaves coriaceous, shortly petiolate, orbicular, oblong, linear-lanceolate or elliptical, blunt, sharp, or acuminate, 2-4
lines long in var. microphylla, i - | inch in vars. a and f t bluntly serrate, the teeth terminated by a bristle in var.
Floicers axillary, solitary, few, or crowded towards the ends of the branches, wdiich become leafy racemes, especially
in var. 3, small, white. PeduncUs carved, pubescent, longer and glabrous in var. 3 aud some mountain states.
Calyx live- rarely six-lobed; lobes red at the tips, often swelling round the capsule, sometimes as large as a wild
oheny, often remaining qnite unchanged.—I have reduced Mr. Cunningham’s G. fluviatilis to a variety ot the
G. antipoda with no hesitation ; also the alpine Tasmanian O. depressa, which has been found abundantly m 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 nip e stru , B r.; frutex glaberrimus, ramulis rigidis setosis glabratisve, foliis breve petiolatis
crassis coriaceisque oblongis ellipticis lineari-oblongisve subacutis acuminatisve crenato-dentatis,
racemis terminalibus axillaribusque elongatis glaberrimis pubescentibusve, pedicellis basi bracteolatis, floribus
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