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length -5 to -75 in. ; breadth -3 to -5 in.; petioles about '05 in. long, hairy. 

 Floioers "2 to '25 in. long, axillary, usually solitary, decurved ; pedicels 

 •05 in. long, or less. Calyx inferior, about '2 in. across, flat, deeply 

 divided into 5 broadly triangular, sub-acute, spreading lobes. Corolla 

 glabrous, widely cylindric-campanulate, deeply cut into 5 broadly 

 triangular acute or sub-acute erect lobes. Stamens 10, from the base of 

 the corolla ; anthers oblong, each with an apical process shorter than 

 itself but with no basal appendage ; filaments shorter than the anthers, 

 curved, expanded at the base. Ovary superior, broad with flat apex. 

 Style cylindric, as long as the corolla ; stigma capitate ; ovules few in 

 each cell. Fruit globular, surrounded by and adherent to the calyx, 

 •2 in. in diam. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1063. Diplycosia microphylla, 

 Beccari, Malesia 212 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 458. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3484; Maingay (K.D.) 700; Lobb. 

 Pebak, at elevations of 3,000 feet : Wray 470, 1105 ; Scortechini 1171 ; 

 King's Collector 3660, 6390. Kedah : Bidley 5528, 5529.— Distrib. 

 Borneo, Celebes, Ternate. 



3. Vaccinium glabrescens, n. sp., King & Gamble. Epiphytic; 

 young branches rather thicker than a crow-quill, dark-coloured when 

 dry, minutely pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, the apex sub- 

 obtuse, the base sub-truncate and minutely cordate ; upper surface dark 

 olivaceous-brown when dry, reticulate, smooth, shining ; lower surface 

 brown when dry, minutely pubescent like the petiole (glabrescent when 

 old) ; main-nerves 3 or 4 pairs, pinnate, ascending, rather straight ; 

 length 1 to 1"35 in. ; breadth -6 to 1 in. ; petiole under -1 in. long. 

 Racemes solitary, terminal, 3 or 4 times longer than the leaves, bearing 

 at the base of each flower a large lanceolate pubescent deciduous bract 

 •4 in. long and about -2 in. broad at the middle. Fruit sub-rotund or 

 ellipsoid, baccate, softly and minutely pubescent, crowned by the 

 inflexed triangular calyx-teeth, "2 in. long and -15 in. in diam., 5-celled, 

 each cell with several angled seeds. 



Perak : Scortechini (without number). 



4. Vaccinium viscifolium, n. sp.. King & Gamble. Young 

 branches half as thick as a goose-quill, striate and pale-brown when 

 dry. Leaves very coriaceous, broadly oblanceolate or spathulate, the 

 apex very blunt, narrowed from below the middle to the short flattened 

 petiole, the edges slightly recurved ; upper surface olivaceous when 

 dry, the lower bright brown, both glabrous ; main-nerves 2 or 3 pairs, 

 originating from the midrib near its base, ascending, little curved, very 

 prominent like the midrib on the upper surface but faint on the lower; 

 length 2 to 2-75 in. ; breath -8 to 1*25 in. ; petioles about "1 in. Racemes 

 terminal and axillary, often forming, from the fall of the leaves, pseudo- 



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