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shining, faintly and minutely reticulate, glabrous except the puberulous 

 midrib, lower surface dull, dark cinereous-puberulous, especially on 

 the midrib and nerves ; main-nerves 4 or 5 pairs, unequal, slightly 

 curved, ascending, the second lowest pair much larger than the others 

 and more erect, all (like the midrib) depressed on the upper surface and 

 bold and prominent on the lower ; length 3-5 to 5 in. ; breadth 1 in. to 

 1-75 in. ; petioles -15 in. long, pubescent and with several short hispid 

 axillary processes at their bases. Racemes axillary, shorter than the 

 leaves, slender, pubescent ; flower-pedicels -1 in. long, pubescent like 

 the calyx, minutely bracteate at the base. Calyx when nearly ripe 

 •15 in. in diam., with an ovoid-globular tube pubescent outside, the 

 mouth with 5 triangular acute incurved lobes. Corolla not seen. Seeds 

 several, compressed, black, pitted. Ericacea, "Wall. Cat. 7528. 



Perak, at elevations of from 5,000 to 6,000 feet : Wray 1159, 1418, 

 2821 ; Scortechini 472 ; King's Collector 3509, 6734, 7810. Singapore: 

 Bicllcy 6235. — Distrib. Sumatra {Beccari 516), Java, Borneo. 



10. Vaccinium malaccense, Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist VIII. 

 (1847) 172. An erect shrub; all parts except the inflorescence glabrous; 

 young branches as thick as a crow-quill, angled, brown when dry. 

 Leaves coriaceous, lanceolate or elliptic, the apex acuminate, the base 

 cuneate or acuminate, the edges finely crenate-serrate ; both surfaces 

 brown when dry, the lower the paler ; main-nerves 4 or 5 pairs, slightly 

 curved, ascending, interarching within the edge, not prominent on 

 either surface ; length 1 to 2-25 in. ; breadth -6 to '9 in. ; petioles -1 to 

 •15 in. long. Bacemes axillary and terminal, longer than the leaves, many- 

 flowered, puberulous like the pedicels and flowers ; pedicels slender, 

 curved downwards, -15 in. long (lengthening in fruit), each with 1 con- 

 cave, lanceolate, caducous bract at its base, and 1 or 2 smaller subulate 

 bracteoles inside it. Floioers S in. long. Calyx campanulate, under 

 •1 in. long, its lobes narrowly triangular, acuminate, spreading. Corolla 

 ovoid-cylindric, slightly narrowed to the mouth; lobes of limb very 

 short, reflexed. Stamens 10, shorter than the corolla ; anthers with 

 2 apical beaks longer than themselves but with no basal processes ; 

 filaments longer than the anthers, bulbous and hairy at the base. 

 Ovary depressed, the disk thick ; style cylindric, ridged, a little shorter 

 than the corolla. Fruit depressed-globose, glabrous, '35 in. broad. 

 Wight Ic. 1186; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 587; Clarke in Hook. f. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. III. 454. Epigynium malaccense, Klotzsch in Linnsea, 

 XXIV. 50. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3458/1; Maingay {l^.D.) 698; Lohh. 

 Singapore : Biclley. Pahang : Bidley 1025. Perak : Bidley 3605. — 

 Distrib. Bangka, Java, Cochin-China. 



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