134 F- Fedde und K Schuster: Index novorum Siphonogamorum. [124 



Calyx 5-partitus; segmenta lanceolata, Petala sohita, oblonga. 

 obtusa. truucata vel retusa. Stamina 10; filauienta longiuscula, plus 

 minus flexuosa; antherae filamentis breviores, dorso niuticae, apice 

 bilobae pubescentes. poris apiealibus dehiscentes. Discus crassus, 

 carnose 5-lobus. Ovarium subglobosum. subsulcatiini. bilooiilaro; styhis 

 brevis, validus, siibcouicus. persistens; stigiiia triincatum; ovula in 

 loculo utroqiie 2 pendula. Bacoa globosa. stylo persistente eoronata. - 

 Pruticuli vaccinioidei vel epaerideoidei. Folia integra. crassa, subtns 

 discoloria, reticnlatione notabili. costa centrali pervalida in petiolum 

 crassum brevem decurrente. Flores (margo saepius revohitus) inter 

 minimos in cymas umbellatas 2— .3-floras in axillis snperioribus dis- 

 positi; pedicelli saepe tennissimi. flexuosi. 



A remarkable genus, distinguished especially by the bicarpellary 

 ovary with two pendiilous ovules in eacli loculus. Tlie baccate fniit 

 points to affinity with Arbuteae. the polypetalons eorolla and habit 

 to Rhodoreae. It shoiild, I tliink, be regarded as an anomalous member 

 of the latter tribe with the C4uianan LedoUxamniis. perhaps. as its 

 nearest ally. 



Mischopleura ovalifolia Wernh. 1. c. p. 100. — Dutch New (Guinea. 



M. Ridleyana Wernh. 1. c. p. 100. — Dutcli New Guinea. 



Pieris bradeata W. W. Sm. in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinb. IX ( HtKi) p. IKi. 

 ~ Yimnan (Forrest n. 9255). 



P. compta\\'. W. ^m. et J. F. Jeff. 1. c. p. 1 17. - Yunuan (K. E. Maire n. 107 1. 

 1874). 



P. po//<flW. W. Sm. et J. F. Jeff. 1. c. p. 117. - NW.-Fukien ( J. de la Touche 

 n. 68). 



Prionotes myrsinites (Lam. sub Andromeda) Skottsberg 1. c. p. 284 (= Arbutus 

 microphylla Forst, p. p. = Parnettya microphylla DG. = Lebetanthus 

 americanus Endl. = L. myrs/n/7es [Lam.] Düsen = Prionotes americanus 

 Hook.). — Chiloe, W. -Patagonien, Feuerland. 



Rhododendron anagallifloriim Wernh. in Transact. Linn. Soc. London, 2. Ser. 



IX (1916) p. 94. - Dutch New Guinea. 

 Rh. asparagoides Wernh. 1. c. p. 94. — Dutch New Guinea. 

 Rh. Bodenii Wernh. 1. c. p. 94. — Dutch New Guinea. 

 Rh. calceolarioides Wernh. 1. c. p. 95. — Dutch New Guinea. 

 Rh. callichilioides Wernh. 1. c. p. 95. — Dutch New Guinea. 



var. minor Wernh. 1. c. p. 96. ^ Dutch New Guinea. 

 Rh. candidapiculatum Wernh. 1. c. p. 96. — Dutch New Guinea. 

 Rh. Carstensense Wernh. 1. c. p. 96. — Dutch New Guinea. 

 Rh. coeloriim Wernh. 1. c. p. 96. — Dutch New Guinea. 

 Rh. coniferum Wernh. 1. c. p. 97. — Dutch New Guinea. 

 Rh. cyrtophylliim Wernh. 1. c. p. 97. — Dutch New Guinea. 

 Rh. filamentosum Wernh. 1. c. p. 97. — Dutch New Guinea. 

 Rh. hameliiflorum Wernh. 1. c. p. 98. — Dutch New Guinea. 

 Rh. minimifolium Wernh. 1. c. p. 98. ~ Dutch New Guinea. 

 Rh. nubicola Wernh. 1. c. p. 98. — Dutch New Guinea. 

 Rh. oreadum Wernh. 1. c. p. 98. — Dutch New Guinea. 

 Rh. ultimum Wernh. 1. c. p. 99. — Dutch New Guinea. 

 Rh. Wollasionii Wernh. 1. c. p. 99. — Dvitch New Guinea. 



