Tas 5012. 
AGAPETES svuxirouia, Nutt. 
Box-leaved Agapetes. 
Nat. Ord. Vaccin1acE®.—DeEcAaNDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx campanulatus, limbo 5-fido, laciniis acutis. Corolla tubu- 
losa, incurva v. recta. Stamina 10; filamentis incurvis; antheris in tubulos 2 
elongatos connatos apice antice dehiscentes productis.. Stigma depressum, 5-lobum. 
Bacea carnosa, 5-locularis, polysperma.—Frutices Indici ; foliis alternis, coria- 
ceis, sempervirentibus ; floribus solitariis racemosisve. Klotzsch in Linnea, v. 24. 
p. 89 (paucis verbis mutatis). 
Aaapetes duzifolia; ramulis calyce pedicellisque pilosis, foliis (pollicaribus) 
breve petiolatis obovato-cuneatis acutiusculis subserratis glaberrimis, flori- 
bus axillaribus solitariis binisve, pedicellis folio brevioribus, corolle tubo 
strictiusculo coccineo folio equilongo ter longiore quam lato, lobis patentibus . 
ovato-lanceolatis, antheris rugulosis basi apiculatis apice in tubulos loculis 
4-plo longiores connatos productis. 
AGapeEteEs buxifolia. Nutt. MSS. 
This very beautiful plant was imported by our friend Mr. 
Nuttall, from the Duphla hills on the eastern frontier of Bhotan, 
bordering on Assam, where it was detected by Mr. Booth, grow- 
ing epiphytically upon trees, at an elevation of 2—3000 feet. It 
forms a small bush with a large, tuberous, root-like stem, which, 
as in many of its Indian congeners, adheres closely by numerous 
fibrous rootlets to the mossy trunks of trees in damp forests. 
Mr. Nuttall further states that it grew with him grafted by ap- 
proach to a species of Epigynium (LH. leucobotrys, Nutt.). 
Descr. An evergreen leafy dush, four to five feet high, with 
spreading, virgate dranches. Branches pilose. Leaves rather 
crowded and spreading, about an inch long, coriaceous, bright 
green above, paler below, shortly petioled, obovate-cuneate to- 
wards the base, subacute, obscurely serrate beyond the middle. 
Flowers solitary or two together, axillary, on slender pilose pedi- 
cels about half as long as the leaves. Calyx obconico-campanu- 
late, green, terete, pilose, with five short, green, triangular-ovate 
OCTOBER Ist, 1857. 
