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peculiar character of this family. Leaves alternate, sessile, 
lanceolate, acute, mucronate, very entire, very smooth, 
shining and convex above, somewhat glaucous below, and when 
examined by the microscope, appearing to be covered with 
numerous, very minute, white dots, firm, with scarcely per- 
ceptible longitudinal nerves. Spikes axillary, erect, much + 
shorter than the leaves; peduncles somewhat tomentose 
Calyx supported at the base by 2 oval, acute, concave bracts; — 
5-leaved, oblong, acute; leaflets lanceolate, glaucescent, 
ciliate. Corolla infundibuliform, a little longer than the 
calyx, 5-fid, puberulent, segments lanceolate, bearded above — — 
beyond the base. Stdmens 5, short, alternate with the — 
lacinize, Filaments subulate. Anthers subpendulous, marked 
on each side with a longitudinal furrow, simple, and bursting 
longitudinally in the manner so accurately described by Mr. _ 
R. Brown, Prodr. Fl. N. Holl. p. 535. Pollen globose. Ovary 
surrounded at the base by five distinct, erect, obtuse scales, 
5-celled, each cell containing a single, oblong ovule. Style — 
erect, villous. Stigma subglobose. Drupe baccate, subglo- - i 
bose, 5-celled, cells 1-eeeded, 
Oss. The discovery of this species is remarkable, as 
forming an exception to the general geographical distribution 
of the Epacridee, a family almost exclusively confined to — 
Australasia, or at least to the Southern hemisphere. Singa- 
pore, situated at the extremity of the Malay peninsula, and. 
forming, as it were, the connecting link between Continental 
or Western India, and the Islands of the great Eastern Archi- 
pelago, 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 resemblances 
between its productions, and those of the Northern frontier of 
Bengal on one hand, and of the Moluccas on the other, — 
while the present connects it with the still more distant — 
— of New Hon 
