spring from the wood of the preceding year, covering 

 the branches below the leaves. The most distinctive 

 peculiarity of this species is the position of the anthe* 

 rial bristles, half way up the tube in place of on the 

 back of the anther cell. The leaveiS are about 6^ 

 inches long by about 1 broad. 



1188. Vaccintum CA) Leschenaultii (R W. 

 V arboreum Lesch, not Michx. Agapetis arborea 

 Dun in D. ' C. Prod. Andromeda symplocifolia ^ 

 Wall. L.No. 1522,) arboreous older branches glabrous,. 

 greyish white, ramuli pubescenti-villous : leaves 

 shortly petioled, ovato.elliptic, serrated, acute, paler 

 beneath, hairy on the costa : racemes axillary and 

 terminal, about the length of the leaves. 



Neilgherries, frequent, flowerinp^ March and April, 

 but usually to be met with in different situations in 

 flower and fruit at all seasons. The berries which are 

 about the size of red currants and are agreeably acid 

 and make excellent tarts, much resembling in taste 

 those made with the cranberry Oxy coccus palustris or 

 O. macrocarpus. 



1189. Vaccinium (A)Neilgherrense (R. W.) 

 shrubby, glabrous, except the pubescent young shoots 

 and leaves : leaves lanceolate, acute at the base, 

 acuminate at the point, racemes longer than 

 the leaves, axillary, usually confined to the extremi- small pea. 

 ties of the branches: flowers whitish or rose colour- 



Bristles short, tubes thick Tstyle exceeding tha sta- 

 mens : stigma dilated. 



Khasya, Griffith. This species is nearly allied to 

 both the preceding and following,^but I think differs 

 specifically from both, 



1192. Vaccixium (A.) Griffitiiianum. (R.W.) 



shrubby, ramous : branches terete, glabrous, except 

 the pilose extreme ramuli : leaves ellijitic pointed at 

 both ends, finely serrated, coriaceous,glabrous: racemes^ 

 axillary foliaceous, many flowered : flowers short pedi- 

 celled, ovate, drooping, each furnished with a leaf like 

 bractea and two bractiols : calyx lobes ovate serrated : 

 corolla ovate, filaments hairy, about the length of the 

 anthers : anthers bristle-l ending in thick tubes. 



This seems much allied to V. LeschenauUit, but is- 

 I tbink quite distinct, 



1193. Vaccinium (A.) ohovatum. (R. W.) 



shrubby, procumbent diffuse, glabrous : ramuli slen- 

 der, very leafy: leaves p^hort ])etioled, obovate-cuni- 

 ate, entire, subrivolate on the margin : flowers axillary 

 fiohtary drooping, pedicels about the length of the 

 leaves : calyx and corrolla glabrous, stamens exserted, 

 filaments very short, anther cells united at the base 



forming a spur, bristled : tubes about twice the length 

 of the anther cells ; berry globose about the size of a 



Cheera Pungee. — Griffith. 



ed, short pedicelled, usually furnished with a large In habit this seenis to approach Arc. uva-ursi but 

 foliaceous bractea : corolla ovate, slightly pubescent : 



jilamentg hairy, anthers bristled, tubes dilated towards 

 the apex. 



On the low banks of streams Neilgherries :* abun* 

 dant along the banks of the Pycarrah river for a mile 

 or two above and below the Bungalow. Flowering 

 during the dry season, from February till April. It is 

 nearly allied by its technical characters to the former, 

 but is evidently quite distinct. The large foliaceous 

 bracts supplies the best distinguishing mark, but both 

 in habit and locality it differs. 



1190. Vaccinium (A.) affile. (R, W.) 

 shrubby, every where glabrous : leaves short petioled, 

 from ovate lanceolate acuminate to elliptic lanceolate, 

 pointed at both ends, crenulato-serrated towards the 

 point : racemes axillary or more frequently from the 

 previous years' wood about the length of the leaves : 

 flowers secund drooping, pedicels as long as the 

 flowers : bracts foliaceous, lanceolate, caducous, with 

 2 subulate bracteols at the base of the pedicels, 

 corolla ovate : filaments slender, subulate, as long as 

 the anthers and tubes, sparingly pubescent at the 

 tJase : bristles nearly half the length of the tube : 

 anther cells roughish, small in proportion to the size 



of the tubes. 



Khasya— Griffith. This is very nearly allied to 

 the following, from the same country, the difference 

 being confined to the stamens; in this the filaments 

 are as long as the anthers and both hairy— in that 

 the filan^ents short covered with matted hair, and the 

 anthers glabrous or nearly so. 



1191. Vaccinium (Ag.) Donnianum, (R^ W,) 

 ramuli virgate terete glabrous : leaves short petioled, 

 obovato-lanceolate acuminate, coriaceous, crenato-ser- 

 rated : racemes axillary cernuous about the length 

 of the leaves, many flowered : flowers drooping : co- 

 rolla glabrous, villous within : filaments short, thick- 

 ly covered with coarse matted hair ; anthers glabrous : 



otherwise, is a true Vaccinium, and certainly cannot 

 be mistaken for any other I have seen. 



1194. Vaccinium (Ag.) Dunallianum. (R. 



W.) arboreous or shrubby, glabrous: leaves elliptico- 

 lanceolate, ending in a long slender acumen, entire, 

 coriaceous, changing to a pale sallow brown in drying : 

 racemes axillary, gemmate at the base, shorter than 

 the leaves : scales of the buds ciliate concave : corolla 

 campanulate ; filaments short, broad, pube.^-cent ; an- 

 thers setigerous about the length of the corolla : beuy 

 orbicular small. 



Bootan.' — Griffith. 



This a curious and very distinct species, most easily 

 recognised by the peculiar acumen of its leaves, and, 

 in dried specimens, by the unusual pale brown colour 



it acquires during that process. 



The scally buds from which the racemes spring 

 are also peculiar in this species and bring it towards 

 Rhododendron. Fig. 5 of the plate represents outside 

 and inside views of one of the scales* 



1195. GaULTHERIA LESCHKXAULTn (D. C. G, 



ovalifolia WalL List No. 1523. Andromeda Kaifjr/ he^ 

 rensiSy Hook Icon. 246. Leucolhot Katagherensis, D. 

 C. Prod. 7, p. 006. Andromeda fiexuosa ! Moon) glab- 

 rous, ramuli subtrigonous : leaves pitioied ovate or 

 obovate, terminatmg in a gland, crenulate, punctuate 

 beneath : racemes axillary or lateral pubescent, alit» 

 tie shorter than the leaves, erect : bracts concave 

 acute glabrous, one under the pedicel, two near the 

 flower. D. C. Prod. 7— 593. 



Neilgherries, abundant and to be met mth in flow- 

 er at ail seasons. It is a considerable sized ramous 

 shrvib with very thick coriacious leave* ^nd pure 

 white flowers. Berries blue. 



I have adopted D. C. specific name in preference 

 to Wallich's catalogue name as having a specific cha- 

 racter attached : on the same grounds Hooker's spe- 

 cific name held priority had he correctly recognized 



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