64 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



panicles several times longer than the leaves. Floivers not seen. 

 Fruit on curved deflexed peduncles, -5 in. in length, globular, baccate, 

 •2 in. in diam., crowned by the persistent disk and by the 5 minute 

 triangular calyx-teeth, 10-celled, the cells with more than one small 

 angled seed. 



Peeak : Scortechini 405 ; Wray, at an elevation of 6,700 feet, 

 328. 



Vae. minor, King & Gamble. Leaves only 1-2 to 1-6 in. in length, 

 their 3 or 4 pairs of nerves not so much from the base of the midrib ; 

 racemes not much longer than the leaves ; fruit only -15 in. in diam. ; 

 pedicels under -2 in. long. 



Perak, at elevations of 5,000 feet : Scortechini 404 ; King's Collector 

 8020. 



5. Vaccinium Teysmanni, Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. II. 1062. A medium- 

 sized tree ; young branches somewhat thinner than a goose-quill, dark- 

 coloured and striate when dry. Leaves coriaceous, broadly obovate, 

 often almost rotund-obovate or elliptic, rarely oblanceolate, the apex 

 obtuse or rounded, rarely retuse or sub-acute, the base cuneate and 

 merging in the broad, sometimes glandular petiole ; both surfaces 

 glabrous and faintly reticulate, upper olivaceous when dry, shining, 

 the lower dark-brown, the midrib broad on both ; main-nerves 4 to 6 

 pairs, curving upwards and anastomosing freely, more prominent on 

 the upper than on the lower surface ; length 2-5 to 3-5 in. ; breadth 1-25 

 to 2-25 in. ; petiole '2 to "4 in. long. Bacemes slender, often longer than 

 the leaves, axillary and extra-axillary, their rachises somewhat com- 

 pressed and angled, often puberulous ; pedicels slender, curved, minutely 

 bracteolate or ebracteolate at the base, -15 to -2 in. long. Flotvers '35 in. 

 long ; their pedicels '15 in. long, decurved or not, puberulous like the 

 outside of the calyx. Calyx less than -1 in. long, campanulate, with 5 

 acutely triangular spreading teeth. Corolla white, puberulous, narrowly 

 cylindric, tapering slightly to the mouth ; lobes 5, very short, spreading 

 or reflexed. Stamens 8 or 10, included or sub-exserted ; anthers nar- 

 rowly oblong, with 2 long apical spurs, but without basal appendages, 

 shorter than the tapering hairy filaments. Ovary hemispheric, deeply 

 grooved ; style as long as the corolla, grooved ; stigmas 5, very short, 

 linear. Capsule unknown. 



Peeak : On Gunong Bubu, at elevations of 4,500 feet, Scortechini 

 428, 443 ; Wray 1117, 3909 ; Curtis 3703.— Distrib. Java. 



6. Vaccinium bancanum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 587. A small 

 tree ; young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, deciduously 

 puberulous, pale and angled when dry. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to 

 elliptic-oblong, the apex sub-acute acute or acuminate, the base 



274 



