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2. Pentapterygium, Klotsch. 



Shrubs, often epiphytic and with stems much thickened at the 

 base. Leaves alternate, ovate or lanceolate, sub-entire or toothed, 

 ■coriaceous, often with glands at the apex of the petiole. Floiuers 

 axillary, solitary, fascicled or corymbose ; the pedicels thickened near 

 the apex, cupular and jointed under the ovary, bracts small. Calyx- 

 tube large, tubular, with 5 wings or prominent angles ; its lobes 5, 

 enlarged in fruit. Corolla tubular, the mouth with 5 short lobes, 

 ■coloured red or yellow, and often transversely marked. Stamens 10, 

 ■epigynous, the filaments short ; anthers elliptic, produced into 2 long 

 beaks, opening by apical pores or slits, and often spurred behind. 

 Ovary 5-celled or spuriously 10-celled ; style cylindric, often exserted ; 

 stigma sub-capitate ; ovules very numerous. Fruit baccate, 5-winged 

 or 5-ribbed, 5-celled or spuriously 10-celled. Seeds numerous, ellipsoid. 

 — DiSTEiB. About 6 species, natives of Eastern Himalaya, Khasia, 

 Malay Peninsula. 



Pentapteeygium Scortechinii, n. sp.. King & Gamble. A sar- 

 mentose shrub, 4 to 10 feet long, growing on rocks or trees ; young 

 branches somewhat thinner than a goose-quill, terete, glabrous, pale 

 brown when dry. Leaves thickly coriaceous, ovate to ovate-rotund, 

 the apex blunt or sub-acute, the base broad and rounded but sometimes 

 slightly emarginate, the edges much recurved when dry ; upper surface 

 shining, glabrous, pale olivaceous-brown ; the lower darker ; midrib 

 strong, deeply depressed on the upper surface, prominent on the lower ; 

 main-nerves about 4 pairs, spreading, the two lower much the larger, 

 all curved, mostly depressed on the upper surface and prominent on 

 the lower ; length 1-75 to 3 in. ; breadth -8 to 2 in. ; petioles "25 to 4 in. 

 Floioers 1 in. long, few together, in axillary or terminal corymbs ; their 

 pedicels about "6 in. long, with 1 or more linear bracts at the base. 

 Calyx inflated, tubular, narrowed towards the mouth, glabrous, lobes of 

 the mouth triangular, acute, erect, the lower half of the tube attached 

 to the ovary. Corolla inserted on the concave disk of the ovary, 

 slightly exserted from the calyx, tubular, inflated towards the middle ; 

 lobes of the mouth short, lanceolate, reflexed ; tube with rufous pubes- 

 cence outside, glabrous within ; style cylindric, glabrous, slightly ex- 

 serted. Fruit unknown. 



Peeak, at elevations of about 4,500 feet : King's Collector 8152 ; 

 Wray 210; Scortechini 309. 



3. Vaccinium, Linn. 



Shrubs, sometimes epiphytic. Leaves usually small, alternate, but 

 sometimes in pseudo-whorls, from lanceolate to ovate, entire or serrate. 

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