= 85-— 
gentem elongata, supra laevia, nitidiuseula, margine (et juniora subtus) 
puberula, plana, ad marginem vix tenuiter revoluta, subtus longitudi- 
naliter striata, nervis parallelis parum prominentibus. Folia (sine acu- 
mine et petiolo) vulgo lineam 1 lata, 3—35 lineas longa (acumine 
$, petiolo f lin. longis), e forma vulgari elliptico-oblonga, deorsum levi- 
ter attenuata; variant forma elliptico-oblonga utrinque aequaliter attenuata , 
ergo lanceolata vel ad apicem dilatata, sive subovato-oblonga. Flores 
axillares, solitarii , breviter pedicellati, erecto-patuli, Pedunculis 1 ad 11 
lineam longis, bracteolatis. Вғасіеае laeves, squamiformes, vulgo sex 
per paria (s. сгисіайт) alternantes, paribus inferioribus minutis, ovatis, 
supremis latis, rotundatis, obtusis, mucronulatis, calycem arcte amplecten- 
tibus, rubeolis. Саут basi breviter tubulosus, laevis, profunde 5-fidus, 
laciniis erectis, lanceolatis, acutis, tubum corollae subaequantibus, extus 
ad apicem rubeolis, margine pallido-subpellucido. ^ Corolla urceolato- 
tubulosa, limbo quinquefido, laciniis alternis, рег aestivationem valvatis, 
dein revolutis , lanceolatis, acutis, apice breviter incrassato- (subcalloso-) 
cuspidatis, extus rubicundis, intus cum tubo corollae molliter villoso- 
tomentosis, villo candido ad basin versus evanescente. Stamina 5, 
laciniis corollae alterna, calyci opposita, filamentis filiformibus, brevibus, 
fauci corollae inter lacinias insertis villoque corollae cinctis; antheris 
planis, medio dorsi affizis, pendulis. — Germen ovatum, superum. 
Stylus 1 simplex, erectus, columnaris, faucem corollae subsuperans, 
laciniis brevior. — Stigma simplex, incrassatum. — Fructus: bacca 
drupacea, ellipsoideo-pentagona, laciniis calycis subpersistentibus adpres- 
sis basi cincta, primum stylo coronata viridis, dein stylo delapso flava, 
ellipsoideo-globosa, extus succulenta, nucleo lignoso duro, loculis mo- 
nospermis." 
Ordo Epaeridearum eximie Australasicus est. Duae, quantum scio, ad- 
hucdum species extra Australiam obviae innotuerant, Leucopogon Malaya- 
nus Jack, circa Singapore in peninsula Malaicáà, et Prionotes americana Hoox. 
Icon. рі. t. 30, quae unica est Epacridea in hunc usque diem in America 
reperta, nimirum in ins. Staten-Eiland. Ad descriptionem Leucopogonis 
Malayani Jack, haec animadvertit notatu digna lllustrissimus Hooke- 
mus (Botan. Miscell Vol. II. 1831, 72):  »The discovery of this 
species is remarkable as forming an exception to the general geogra- 
phieal distribution of the Epaerideae, a family almost exclusively confi- 
ned to Australia, or at least to the southern hemisphere. Singapore, 
Situated at the extremity of the Malayan peninsula, and forming, as it 
were, the connecting link between Continental or Western India, and 
the Islands of the great Eastern Archipelago, partakes of this character 
in its Flora, which exhibits many remarkable points of coincidence with. 
the Floras of both regions. I have had occasion to observe resemblan- . 
ces between its productions, and those of the Northern frontier of Ben- 
galen on one hand, and of the Moluccas on the other, whill the pre- 
sent connects it with the still more distant rang of New Holland." In 
herb. Hooker nuper vidi Ерасгійеат ex Nova Guinea, a qua (a 
Viro Ill., ca qua solet esse rara liberalitate et benevolentia, mecum com- 
