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nerves. Petioles scarce any. Flowers from the axils of the 
small leaves, sometimes nearly solitary, sometimes four or 
five on a very short peduncle. Pedicels reddish, seated 
on small tubercles, furnished with glandular hairs. Calyx 
superior, trifid. Corolla three-petaled. Stamina three. 
Capsule turbinate, three-celled, many-seeded. 
Ors. This species is remarkable for the extreme difference 
in the size of the opposite leaves, one of which is so minute 
as almost to escape observation. The same peculiarity 
exists in the Sonerila Molluccana. 
RHODODENDRON MALAYANUM. W.J. 
Foliis oblongis glabris punctatis, floribus terminalibus, 
pedicellis cernuis, corolla punctata basi gibba. 
Observed on the summit of the Sugar-loaf mountain in the 
interior of Bencoolen. : 
This is a large shrub or small tree, much branched. Bark 
brown and spotted. Leaves alternate or scattered, short- 
petioled, lanceolate-linear, 21—3 inches long, attenuated to 
both ends, somewhat bluntish at the point, entire, smooth, 
thickly sprinkled beneath with brown dots, and green above 
with depressed points; the middle nerve is strong, the lateral 
ones scarce any. Stipules none. Flowers from a short 
terminal bud, which is at first closely invested by numerous 
imbricated broad bracts, which successively fall off and at 
length leave the short thick peduncle annulated by their 
cicatrices. It throws out near the point several nodding 
one-flowered pedicels which are dotted in the same manner 
as the leaves. Calyx very small, five-toothed. Corolla 
crimson, tubular, expanding into a five-lobed limb, sprinkled 
with callous dots; tube gibbous at the base and marked with 
five furrows. Stamina ten, leaning to one side, inserted on 
the very base of the corolla and about as long as its limb; 
filaments red ; anthers yellow, opening at top by two oblique 
pores. Style a little shorter than the stamina. Stigma a 
round head marked with five indistinct rays. Ovary superior, 
SECOND SERIES. Ba 
