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cuneate ; both surfaces yellowish-brown when dry and rather dull, the 

 lower reticulate ; the edges slightly recurved or not ; main-nerves 4 or 

 5 pairs, ascending, slightly curved, faint on both surfaces ; length 1 to 

 2'5 in. ; breadth "5 to "8 in. ; petioles •! in. long. Racemes axillary and 

 terminal, twice as long as the leaves, their rachises puberulous, angled 

 when dry. Floioers -2 in. long ; their pedicels slender, decurved, -1 to 

 •2 in. long, puberulous, minutely bracteolate at the base. Calyx 

 puberulous, cupular, -15 in. across, deeply divided into 5 triangular 

 sub-acute spreading lobes. Corolla ovoid or ovoid-globulose, with trun- 

 cate, wide, entire, wavy or obscurely toothed mouth, puberulous outside. 

 Stamens 10, shorter than the corolla and inserted at its base ; anthers 

 short, broad, with 2 short, trumpet-shaped, curved apical processes, 

 opening by wide pores, and, at the base of these processes behind, 

 2 curved, slender filamentous spurs ; the filaments longer than the 

 anthers, flattened, tapering from the base 'upwards, pubescent. Ovary 

 depressed, bearing a slightly convex 10-grooved disk and many hairs. 

 Fruit -2 to "25 in. in diam., depressed-globular, crowned by the inflexed 

 calyx-lobes, minutely pubescent, 5-celled ; seeds numerous, triangular, 

 reticulate, shining. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 454. V. ex- 

 aristatum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 1873, Pt. II. 96 ; 1877, 

 Pt. II. 215 ; For. Fl. Burm. II. 91. 



Pekak, at elevations of from 5,000 to 6,500 feet : Wray 328, 1528, 

 3912 ; King's Collector 7018. Malacca : Mount Ophir, Moxon ; 

 Maingay (K.D.) 699. — Disteib. Bangka. 



7. Vaccinium Kunstleri, n. sp.. King & Gamble. Epiphytic ; 

 everywhere glabrous ; young branches one-third of the thickness of a 

 goose-quill, dark and striate when dry. Leaves coriaceous, lanceolate 

 or narrowly elliptic, the apex acuminate, the base much narrowed, the 

 edges slightly recurved ; both surfaces brown when dry, the upper 

 tinged with olivaceous and reticulate ; main-nerves 3 pairs, ascending, 

 little curved, slightly prominent on the upper surface only ; length 2 to 

 2'5 in.; breadth -5 to '65 in.; petioles "1 to '15 in. long. Bacemes about 

 as long as the leaves, axillary, minutely bracteolate at the base of the 

 flowers. Floxvers "2 in. long, their puberulous pedicels slender, -1 to 

 •15 in. long. Calyx cupular-campanulate, about -05 in. long, the limb 

 spreading, wavy, with indistinct broad lobes. Corolla tubular-ovoid, 

 •15 to -2 in. long, the mouth with 5 broad, blunt, short recurved lobes. 

 Stamens 10, slightly shorter than the corolla or as long ; anthers small, 

 oblong, each with 2 short, diverging, apical truncate processes, but with 

 none at the base ; filaments three times as long as the anthers, taper- 

 ing, flattened and hairy below, cylindric above. Ovary 5-celled, with 

 several ovules in each cell, depressed; disk slightly convex with radiating 



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