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former also of New Holland ; the rest of the genus being found in the Moluccas, New 
Holland, and the West Indies. Pentaphragma (Phyteuma, Roxb.) begonifolium, Wall. 
N. 1315, is referred here by M, A. De Candolle. 
101. EPACRIDEZ. 
This is a third family with the peculiar distribution of the two former, but of which 
no species is found within the proper limits of the Indian Flora, though one is described 
in the Flora Indica, ed. Wall. 2. p. 301. “This is Leucopogon Malayanus of Dr. Jack, 
found abundantly on the small hills of the island of Singapore, as well as on Mount 
Ophir, elevated 4,000 feet, and situated about thirty miles from Malacca. It is 
remarkable as forming an exception to the general geographical distribution of this 
order, and is interesting for the remarks long ago made by Dr. Jack on this subject, 
and which corroborate the views taken in this work respecting the distribution of 
the Indian Flora. Dr. Jack remarks that ‘‘ Singapore, situated at the extremity of the 
Malay Peninsula, and forming as it were the connecting link between Continental 
and 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 resemblances between its 
productions and those of the northern frontier of Bengal on the one hand, and of the 
Moluccas on the other, while the present connects it with the still more distant range 
of New Holland.” FU. Ind.1.c. from Jéal. Misc. ; 
102. VACCINACEZ. 
This order, distinguished from Ericee, with which it was formerly combined, by its 
inferior ovarium and succulent fruit, is chiefly found in North America, but also in 
Europe, Siberia, and Japan, with a few species in the mountains of Mexico, South 
America, and Jamaica; also in the Sandwich Islands and in that of Celebes. A 
species of Vaccinium is mentioned by M. Lechenault de la Tour, as existing on the 
Neelgherries: and another by Dr. Wallich on the mountains of Silhet. The latter 
does not seem to have met with it further north, nor have I found any species in the 
part of the mountains which I have visited ; though the bilberry has been mentioned to 
me as having been found by travellers in the Himalaya, and from the general distribu- 
tion of the genus, as well as from its extending to Caucasus, it is not improbable that 
some species may yet be found. The genus Thivaudia, differing from Vaccinium chiefly 
in habit and a more elongated corolla, existing in the mountains of New Granada and 
the Andes of Quito and Peru, is also found in the Himalayas and Neelgherries. These 
were first discovered by Dr. Roxburgh in the mountains near Chittagong and Silhet, 
and referred by him to the Peruvian genus Ceratostemma. - Dr. Wallich has removed 
them to Thibaudia, with which, as well as two of his new species, though differing 
a little in habit, they appear to agree in all essential characters, and should be united 
with it, even if a slight enlargement of the generic character be necessary. T° serrata, 
o Wall. 
