Vaccinium.] ^ rxxxr vacemiacEm. (C. B. Clarke.) 455 
pubescent, teeth triangular aeute entire, corolla pubescent without. Epigynium 
neilgherrense, Klotzsch in Linnea, xxiv. 50. 
NirauknRY Mrs.; alt. 4-8000 ft., frequent. 
Closely resembling V. Griffithiamum, differing in the points stated and in the 
larger leaves, 21-3 by j-$ in. V. chinense, Champ. in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 297, 
does not appear to differ except by the wider ovate or oblong leaves. 
17. V. Leschenaultii, Wight Ic.t. 1188; leaves ovate or oblong acute 
or obtuse minutely toothed glabrous, racemes pubescent, bracts caducous, anthers 
spurred. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 277. Andromeda symplocifolia, Wall. Cat. 1522. 
Agapetes symplocifolia, G. Don Gen. Syst. iii, 862 ; DC. Prodr. vii. 555. A. 
? arborea, DC. Prodr. vii. 555.  Epigynium Leschenaultii, Klotzsch in Linnea, 
xxiv. 50. 
Mrs. of Sournern Inpa and Cevrox; alt. 4-8000 ft., common. 
The typical form of this species hardly differs from V. Donianwm, n. 12, but by 
the pubescent innovations and racemes; the flowers and berries are rather larger. 
The leaves are 2-3 in. long, elliptic-lanceolate. The following varieties differ however 
considerably in general aspect. ’ 
Var. arborea, Leschenault ; arboreous, branchlets and racemes very stout nearly 
glabrous, pedicels + in., berries } in, diam. and upwards. 
Var. rotundifolia; leaves 1-14 in. diam. orbicular obtuse sometimes retuse. V. 
rotundifolia, Wight Ill. t. 139 ; Bedd. For. Man. p. 136.—Ceylon. 
Var. zeylanica; bracts large leaf-like and as persistent as the leaves, so that the 
pedicels are axillary solitary.— Ceylon, Thwaites, &c. This remarkable plant appears 
to be a form of the var. arborea; the bracts (in Thwaites. n. 270) attain 13 by 2 in. 
and are coriaceous; pedicels J in., stout, recurved in fruit; berries large. It is 
connected with V. Leschenaultii by intermediate forms having large but membranous 
subeaducous bracts. 
4. CORALLOBOTRYS, Hook. f. 
An epiphytic shrub; branches round. Leaves alternate, petioled, lanceolate, 
acuminate, obtusely serrate, coriaceous, base 2-glandular. Peduncles axillary, 
from below the leaves ; flowers corymbose ; pedicels thickened upwards, articu- 
lated and cup-shaped under the ovary; bracts very small. Calya-tube hemi- 
spheric; lobes 5, small, triangular, persistent. Corolla small, globose-campanu- 
late, red; teeth 5, small, recurved. Stamens 10, epigynous, free; anthers 
oblong, produced into 2 short tubes upwards, dehiscing by short terminal slits. 
Ovary 5-celled ; style cylindric, somewhat thickened in the middle, stigma 
capitate; ovules numerous in each cell. Fruit unknown. 
C. acuminata, Hook. f. in Gen. Pl ii. 575. Thibaudia acuminata, Wad. 
Cat. 6297. Agapetes acuminata, G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 862; DC. Prodr. vii. 
554, Epigynium acuminatum, Klotzsch in Linnea, xxiv. 51; Bot. Mag. t. 
5010. Vaccinium acuminatum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 214, and 
For. Fi. ii. 90. 
Kuasa Mrs. ; alt. 34000 ft., Wallich, Griffith, H. f. § T.,&e. Bnoraw, Nuttall. 
? Peau, Griffith. 
A shrub, 2-4 ft.; branches thick. Leaves 5 by 1} in., sometimes 10 hy 21 in. ; 
base cuneate, glabrous; petiole 3-$ in. Corymbs red; peduncle 4-4 in.; pedicels 
in.; bracts 3, in. Calyz-tube cinereous pubescent or glabrous; teeth A in. Corolla 
i by } in. glabrous or glandular-puberulous without. Filaments short, sparsely 
pilose ; anther-cells glandular-scabrid. 
