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Plate 37] GAULTHERIA 15
GAULTHERIA, Linn.
(After Gaulthier, a botanist of Quebec.)
1. Anther-cells not 2-horned at the tip G. trichophylla.
2. Anther-cells 2-horned at the tip ... G. nummularioides.
Pigs. 3 and 4. Gaultheria trichophylla, Eoyle.
(Trichophylla is derived from triches, hairs, and phyllon, leaf,
alluding to the long hairs on the margin of the leaves.
A small shrub. Stems 6-12 in., wiry, prostrate, muchbranched,
more or less hairy upwards. Leaves persistent,
alternate, oblong, i by i in., almost stalkless, entire or
indistinctly crenulate, hairless on both surfaces, margins
usually long-hairy. Flowers small. Flower-stalk TV in. long,
with bracts. Calyx egg-shaped, 5-fid, in fruit enlarged, teeth
TV in. long, egg-shaped-oblong. Corolla in. long and broad,
wide bell-shaped, red or nearly white. Stamens 10 ; anthercells
not two-horned at the tip. Ovary 5-celled; style
cylindric stigma simple. Fruit a capsule, I in. diameter ; ;
fleshy calyx blue-black.
Flowers. September.
Locality. Aporwat, above Gulmarg, rocky hill-side amongst
Birch trees, above 11,000 ft., common
; Thajwas.
Distribution. Alpine Himalaya, from Kashmir to Sikkim,
10,000-13,000 ft.
Oaultheria nummularioides, D. Don.
(Nummularioides means resembling Nummularia.)
A small shrub. Stems prostrate, hairy, much -branched,
leafy. Leaves thin, nearly stalkless, spreading, egg-shaped,
rounded at the base, i by Jin., almost entire, glabrous above,
hairy beneath, margins toothed, fringed. Flowers solitary, in
the axils, i in. long, pink or white ;
stalks tn in. long, clothed
with hairless, leathery, egg-shaped-oblong bracts. Calyxteeth
5, lance-shaped, i in. long. Corolla ^ by -&- in., wide,
tubu*ar teeth
; very small, bent back. Stamens 10, anthercells
2-horned at the tip. Fruit i in. diameter, enclosed in
the fleshy, dark-blue, persistent calyx.
Locality. At altitudes of 5,000-9,000 ft.
Distribution. Throughout the Himalaya up to 9,000 ft.,
Khasia Hills, 4,000-6,000 ft., Java.