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Corolla long and tubular or campanulate, with long segments : — 



Calyx-tube terete . . . . . . . . 1. Agapetes. 



Calyx-tube 5-\vinged or 5-angled . . . . . . 2. Pentaptebygium. 



Corolla small, campanulate or ovoid, its lobes short . . 3. Vaccinium. 



1. Agapetes, D. Don, 



Shrubs, often epiphytic, the stems often much swollen near the 

 base. Leaves usually coriaceous, alternate, sometimes in pseudo- 

 whorls, from linear to elliptic, entire or toothed, sessile or with short 

 petioles, often glandular near the base. Flowers axillary, solitary, 

 corymbose or in fascicles ; the pedicel often thickened or articulate 

 under the ovary, bracts small. Calyx globose, the limb with 5 per- 

 sistent teeth or lobes. Corolla tubular or campanulate, the limb with 

 short or long lobes, red, but often with transverse marks or with 

 greenish-white lobes. Stamens 10, usually with short filaments ; 

 anthers oblong, each with 2 long apical processes, opening by pores or 

 slits, often spurred behind. Disk pulvinate, often lobed. Ovary 5-celled 

 or falsely 10-celled ; style cylindi-ic ; stigma capitate; ovules numerous. 

 Berry globose, nearly dry or succulent, 5- or 10-celled, sometimes open- 

 ing by pores round the disk within the calyx-teeth. Seeds numerous, 

 ellipsoid, testa lax. — Distbib. 30 species, mostly Himalayan, a few 

 Malayan. 



Agapetes Griffithii, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 449. 

 An epiphytic shrub, 3 to 15 feet long, with a tuberous stem ; young 

 branches half as thick as a goose-quill, terete, glabrous. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, always caudate- 

 acuminate, the base rounded, both surfaces pale olivaceous-brown when 

 dry, glabrous, minutely reticulate ; main-nerves 5 or 6 pairs, curved, 

 ascending, faint on both surfaces ; length 3*5 to 6 in. ; breadth 1 in. to 

 2-65 in. ; petiole -15 in. long or under. Floivers -3 to -4 in. long, axillary, 

 always on slender pedicels four or five times as long as themselves, 

 with 1 or 2 narrow bracteoles near the base, glabrous, axillary, solitary, 

 in pairs or in lax racemes. Calyx "1 to "2 in. long (enlarging in fruit), 

 campanulate, with 5 deep spreading triangular lobes. Corolla '25 in. 

 long, tubular-campanulate, the mouth with 5 triangular sub-erect 

 acute lobes. Anthers inserted at the base of the corolla-tube, linear, 

 with 2 long apical beaks dehiscing longitudinally, and 2 posteriorly- 

 projecting curved spurs ; filaments shorter than the anthers, hairy. 

 Fruit globular, glabrous, crowned by the small inflexed calyx-lobes- 

 Seeds about 20, compressed, tubercled, black. 



Malacca : Griffith. Perak : at elevations of 2,800 to 4,000 feet, 

 Wray 1071; King's Collector 3831, 6363, 8051; Bidley55B2; Scortechini. 



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