Leucopogon.] LXXXIV. EPACRIDEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 477 
Kasuwrn ; alt. 8500 ft., Aitchison, C. B. Clarke, Kuasta Mrs.; alt. 4-5000 ft., 
H. f. & T.,&c.—Disters. Amurland, Japan, N. America, 
Seapes 6-18 in. Scales $ in., ovate-oblong. Pedicels 3-1} in. Petals j in., 
yellow or white; stamens and stigma nearly level with their summits. Ovary and 
capsule globose.—This only differs from the European species (Monotropa Hypopitys, 
Linn.) by its hairiness ; and is considered a variety thereof by Maximowicz, 
3. CHEILOTHECA, Hook. f. 
Stem erect, simple or forked ; branches l-flowered. Sepals 3-4, oblong-lan- 
ceolate. Petals 9, erect, linear-oblong, obtuse, base not saccate. Stamens 6; 
anthers linear-oblong, erect, dehiscing on the sides by longitudinal slits. Ovary 
fusiform, l-celled, narrowed into the short cylindric style; stigma globose- 
conical; placente 6, parietal, bifid, the long branches covered on all sides by 
numerous ovules, Fruit unknown. 
C. khasiana, Hook. f. in Gen. PI. ii, 608. 
Kuasta Mrs.; Mushai, near River Oongkot, alt. 3500 ft., H. f. 4 T. 
Stem 4-6 in. Scales 1 by} in., lanceolate, acute, densely imbricate. Petals 1 in., 
yellow-red. Stamens as long as the petals, brown. Pistil $ by A in., glabrous. 
Orper LXXXIV. EPACRIDEIE. (By C. B. Clarke.) 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, articulated with the branch, 
coriaceous, entire, longitudinally nerved. Flowers solitary or racemose, axillary 
or terminal, usually bracteolate. Calyx 5-4-partite ; segments coriaceous, striate, 
imbricate, persistent. Corolla 5-4-tid. Stamens 5-4, usually on the corolla- 
tube ; anthers oblong, 1-celled (spuriously 2-celled), dehiscing along their whole 
length by a single slit. Ovary globose, 1-10-celled ; style terminal, cylindric, 
stigma subcapitate; ovules in each cell lor many. Frut drupaceous with 2-5 
l-seeded pyrenes, or a many-seeded capsule. Seeds small, albuminous.—Species 
320, nearly all Australian, a few Polynesian, 1 Fuegian, a few Malayan. 
1. LEUCOPOGON, F. Br. 
Shrubs. Flowers small, white, in axillary or terminal spikes or racemes ; 
rachis terminating in an abortive flower; bracteoles 2-3 under the calyx. 
Corolla campanulate, lobes 5, hairy within, valvate in bud. Ovary 2-5-celled ; 
style terminal; ovule solitary in each cell, pendulous. Drupe scarcely fleshy, 
1-5-celled..—Species 130, 118 Australian, the others Polynesian and Malayan. 
L. malayanus, Jack in Mal. Misc. i. v. 20, and in Hook. Bot. Misc. ii. 71; 
leaves narrowly lanceolate glabrous shining, racemes 3-7-flowered much shorter 
than the leaves, rachis villous. Wall. Cat. 3720, and in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 
Carey & Wall. ii. 801; DC. Prodr. vii, 744; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 
217, and For. Fl. ii. 95. Styphelia malayica, Spreng. Syst. cur. post, 67. 
Matacca and SINGAPORE ; Jack, &c.—DisrRIB. Malay Isles and Borneo, 
A shrub, 3-6 ft.; branches densely leafy. Leaves 2 by j in., acute, mucronate, 
Racemes + in.; calyx enveloped by the ovate bracteoles ` segments 4-2 in., elliptic- 
oblong. Corolla-tube à in.; lobes j in., spreading. Hypogynous scales 5, free. 
Style hairy or perfectly glabrous. Drupe $-% in. diam. 
Var. moluccana, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 217, and For. Fl. ii. 96 ; leaves 
}-1 in. subulate-pointed, Z. moluccanum, Scheff. Obs. Phyt. iii. 97 (sp.).—Tenas- 
serim, Helfer; Keddah Peak, Low.—L. moluccanum, Scheff., has the peduncles 1-2- 
eee: in Helfer's Tenasserim plant, the racemes are (sometimes at least) 3-0- 
flowered, 
