Plate 9516 - Gaultheria wardii

Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 9516 Gaultheria wardii Family: Ericaceae • Native Region: Tibet • Publication Date: January 1st, 1934 Distribution: -S • Tab Author: S.R.C Botanical Description Sequently confirmed when the plant was named. In the wild state, according to Capt. Kingdon Ward, the plant grows "more or less socially" and may reach a height of 2 metres. The fruiting calyces, as shown on the plate, form an attractive feature in autumn. Dried specimens in the herbarium smell more strongly of oil of wintergreen than any other Gaultheria we know. DESCRIPTION. An evergreen shrub, according to F. K. Ward 1-2 metres high; branches of the current year light green or bright reddish-brown, densely covered with long light brown hairs; older branches darker and their hairs becoming blackish or eventually more or less breaking off. Vegetative bud-scales brownish, persistent, rather tough, thinly leathery, lanceolate-oblong from a wide base, acute, densely and appressedly hairy, up to 8 mm. by 4.5 mm. Leaves nearly sessile, persisting into the second year; those of the new shoots with blades lanceolate to elliptic from a broad rounded base and tapering to the acute or shortly acuminate apex which ends in a more or less prominent hydathode,. Synonyms Gaultheria sp. About This Print Original black and white uncolored botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine (established 1787). This 9000s series print is from unissued publisher stock, never hand-colored, representing the authentic plate as it appeared in the magazine. Edited by Sir Arthur William Hill for The Royal Horticultural Society, London.