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grooves ; style slightly exserted, hairy below ; stigma small. Fruit 

 globular, "2 in. in diam. 



Pebak, on Maxwell's Hill, elevation 3,500 feet : Scortechini 39, 

 428 ; King's Collector 8415. 



This closely resembles V. bancaniim, Miq., but it is an epiphyte. Its leaves, 

 Taoreover, are narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, and they have only 3 pairs of main- 

 nerves. The flowers of this are puberulous, and the mouth of the corolla, instead of 

 being entire, has 5 broad, short, recurved lobes. The apical processes on the anthers 

 are also of a different shape from those in V. hancanum. 



8. Vaccinium Hasseltii, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I. 40. An 

 erect shrub ; young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, dark- 

 ■coloured and angled when dry, glabrous. Leaves elliptic to elliptic- 

 oblong, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, the apex acuminate (often caudately 

 so) ; upper surface olivaceous-brown, the lower paler ; main-nerves 3 

 pairs, very slightly curved and erect or ascending, the lower pairs 

 passing almost to the apex, faint but distinct on both surfaces, some of 

 the nerves transverse, the others vertical ; length 1-5 to 2-5 in. ; breadth 

 •6 to 1'25 in. ; petioles "2 to "25 in. long, slender. Racemes axillary and 

 terminal, usually slightly longer than the leaves, their rachises at first 

 puberulous but ultimately glabrous, ebracteolate ; flower-pedicels slender, 

 curved or straight, about '15 in. long. Calyx shortly cupular, with 5 

 spreading, broad, sub-acute or blunt teeth. Corolla about '35 in. long, 

 sub-cylindric, narrowing upwards to the mouth ; the lobes 5, broad, 

 blunt, erect or reflexed, very short, each bearing a small tuft of hairs. 

 Stamens 10, as long as the corolla ; anthers oblong, with 2 apical beaks 

 more than twice as long as themselves but with no basal appendages ; 

 the filaments shorter than the beaks but longer than the anther-cells, 

 broad and hairy at the base. Ovary much compressed, surmounted by 

 a large, much- corrugated disk ; style as long as the corolla, tapering, 

 boldly ridged. Fruit globular, smooth, glabrous, "3 in. in diam., 

 crowned by the minute calyx-lobes. V. hancanum, Miq., var. angusti- 

 folium, Scheff. 



Peeak : King's Collector 7515 ; Derry 3702 ; Wray 4012. Pahang : 

 Bicllcy 1363, 10895. Johoee : Biclley 6316, 6323. Singapore : Bidley 

 3030, 6316a, 8907.— Distrib. Bangka. 



9. Vaccinium acuminatissimum, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I. 36. 

 Epiphytic shrub, 3 to 8 feet long ; young branches half as thick 

 as a goose-quill or less, clothed with short cinereous pubescence. 

 Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, the apex 

 caudate-acuminate, the base cuneate, the edges when dry much re- 

 curved ; both surfaces dark olivaceous-brown when dry : the upper 



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