PLATE XV. B. 
VACCINIUM SERPENS, Wigit. 
Nat. Ord. VAccINIACEA. 
Epiphyticum, dependens, sempervirens, totum foliis exceptis glanduloso-hispidum, ramis gracilibus, foliis parvis patulis 
subdistichis brevissime petiolatis ovatis acuminatis basi rotundatis supra medium serratis apice 2—3-cuspidatis gla- 
berrimis convexis coriaceis enerviis costa obscura, floribus solitariis axillaribus pendulis, pedicellis foliis longioribus 
infra medium bibracteolatis, calycis tubo 5-alato lobis brevibus obtusis, corolla tubulosa pubescente subventricosa 
obscure 5-gona fauce contracta lobis brevibus recurvis, staminibus fere ut in V. saligno. 
Vaccinium serpens, Wight, Ic. Plant. Ind. Or. t. 1183. 
Pentapteryaium serpens, Klotzsch in Linnea, v. 24. p. 47. 
Has. In sylvis tropicis et temperatis Himalaye orientalis: Bhotan et Sikkim, alt. 83-7000 ped. (£7. Aprili, Maio.) 
This is one of the most beautiful species of the splendid section of Vaccinium to which it belongs. It 
was discovered by Griffith in Bhotan, and found abundantly in Sikkim by Dr. Thomson and myself, mhabit- 
ing the limbs of lofty trees at various elevations between 3000 and 7000 feet elevation. It is one of the 
very few plants that inhabit both the tropical and temperate zones of the Himalaya, a peculiarity which 
is no doubt partly accounted for by the fact of the humid regions it affects being singularly equable in 
temperature. 
Both this and the 7. salignum would no doubt succeed in our conservatories, on rockwork or pieces of 
wood, for both occasionally grow on the ground in rocky places in the Himalaya. 
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Prats XV. B. Fig. 1. Portion of stem and leaves. 2. Pedicel, calyx, and style. 3. Glandular hairs of pedicel. 4. Sta- 
men. 5. Transverse section of ovary :—all magnified. 
