Agapetes. | LXXXI, VACCINIACER. (O. B. Clarke.) 443 
l. AGAPETES, D. Don. 
Shrubs, often epiphytic; stems often greatly thickened at the base. Leaves 
alternate, sometimes falsely whorled, from linear to elliptic, entire or toothed, 
sessile or shortly petioled, often with glands at the apex of the petiole, usually 
coriaceous. Flowers axillary, corymbose fascicled or solitary ; pedicel often 
thickened or articulate under the ovary; bracts small. Calya-tube globose ; 
limb 5-fid or 5-partite, persistent. Corolla tubular or cam anulate, shortly or 
deeply 5-lobed, red, often with transverse marks, or the lobes greenish-white. 
Stamens 10, filaments usually short; anthers elliptic, produced upwards in 2 
long beaks opening by apical pores or slits, often spurred behind. Ovary 5- 
celled, or spuriously 10-celled; style cylindric, stigma capitate; ovules very 
many. Berry globose, succulent or nearly dry, 5-celled or spuriously 10-celled, 
often opening by 10 pores round the disk within the calyx-teeth. Seeds very 
many, ellipsoid, outer coat very lax.—Species 30, from Nipal and Bhotan to 
Borneo; | in Fiji. 
Scr. I. Corolla elongate, lobed less than half its length, curved at the apex. 
Anthers not spurred on the back. Corymbs peduncled. 
l. A. setigera, D. Don; G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 862 ; leaves oblong or obo- 
vate-lanceolate narrowed suddenly into the very short petiole, pedicels and calyx 
more or less hirsute, filaments } in. DC. Prodr. vii, 554. A. variegata, DC. 
Prodr. vii. 554, as to descr. only, not of D. Don, A. hirsuta, Klotzsch in Linnea, 
xxiv. 98. Thibaudia setigera, Wall. Cat.752. Vaccinium hirsutum, Wight Ic. 
t. 1182. V. verticillatum, Wight Ic. t. 1181; Kurz in Journ. As. Soe. 1873, 
ii. 83, and 1877, ii. 213 (exclud. var. B and y); For. Fl. ii, 87, var. 1. 
Kuasta Mrs., alt. 5000 fi., common; extending thence to Tavoy. 
Branches round, glabrous or patently hirsute. Leaves 44 by 14 in, often falsely 
whorled, coriaceous, entire or slightly toothed, glabrous, outer nerve nearly marginal 
or obscure. Peduncles $ in., arising mostly from the nodes with the whorls of leaves ; 
pedicels 4-1 in., widely dilated at the apex in fruit ; bracts scarcely de in. ; calyx-teeth 
2 in. long, lanceolate. Corolla 3 by } in., hirsute or pubescent, without rarely glabrous, 
deep red, the transverse V-shaped bars on the tube obscure. Filaments pilose or 
glabrous; anther-cells granular-scabrid. Fruit 4 in., subglobose, ultimately nearly 
dry, usually hirsute even when ripe, seeds escaping by 10 pores round the disc ; calyx- 
teeth in fruit enlarged, half as long as the fruit or longer. 
Van. verticillata ; leaves narrowed sometimes attenuated into the petiole. A. ver- 
ticillata, D. Don; G. Don Gen. Syst. iii, 862; DC. Prodr. vii. 544. A. Wallichiana, 
Klotzsch in Linnea, xxiv. 38. Thibaudia verticillata, Wall. Cat. 153. T. obliqua, 
Griff. Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 515. Vaccinium Walliehianum, Wight Ie. t. 1180.—Khasia 
Mts., alt. 4000 ft. 
Van. Roylei; leaves suddenly narrowed into the petiole, pedicels and calyx gla- 
brous. Vaccinium Roylei, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 214. V. variegatum, 
B parviflorum, Kurz in Journ. As, Soc. 1873, ii. 84. Thibaudia variegata, Royle 
Ill. 257, t. 19, fig. 1, exclud. all syn.  Agapetes variegata, Hook. f. in Gen. PL ii. 671, 
not of Don.—Khasia Mts., alt. 4000 ft., extending to lower Birma.— The type example 
of Wallich’s Thibaudia variegata, n. 751, is the true Ceratostemma variegatum of Roxb. ; 
but some of Wallich’s duplicates issued as n. 751 are Agapetes setigera, whence has 
arisen some confusion in the names adopted by Sir J. D. Hooker and by Kurz. 
o A. macrostemon, Clarke; leaves oblong subsessile rounded at the 
base, pedicels and calyx glabrous, filaments j-j in. Vaccinium macrostemon, 
Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1873, ii. 85; 1877, ii. 218; For. FI. ii. 87. 
British Brema; Martaban, alt. 4-6,000 ft., Kurz. 
An epiphytic shrub, 2-4 ft, Branches thick, angular upwards, Leaves 6 by 2 in., 
