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2. Gaultheria leucocarpa, Blume Bijdr. 856. A slender climber; 

 young branches as thick as a crow-quill, smooth, glabrous, pale-brown 

 when dry. Leaves thinly coriaceous, broadly ovate, shortly rather 

 abruptly and sharply caudate-acuminate, the base broad, emarginate or 

 sub-cordate ; edges minutely crenate-serrate ; upper surface olivaceous- 

 brown when dry, much and boldly reticulate, the nerves minutely 

 hairy ; lower surface pale-brown, reticulate, glabrous ; main-nerves 2 to 

 4 pairs, much curved, ascending, distinct on both surfaces ; length 2 to 

 4 in. ; breadth 1 to 2 in. ; petioles "15 to "2 in. long. Racemes slightly 

 supra-axillary, shorter than the leaves, their rachises compressed, 

 glabrous or pubescent ; flower-pedicels rather less than •! in. long in 

 flower, twice as long in fruit, each with a small ovate concave bract 

 at its base. Floioers S in. long ; their pedicels rather more than -1 in. 

 long, deflexed, puberulous, ebracteolate. Calyx less than •! in. long, 

 puberulous, campanulate, with 5 small spreading sub-acute triangular 

 lobes. Corolla sub-cylindric, widest at the base and gradually tapering to 

 the mouth, teeth of the mouth very short, blunt, erect. Stamens 10 ; 

 anthers linear, beaked, shorter than the densely hairy tapering fila- 

 ments. Ovary inferior, depressed-hemispheric, crowned by a thick, 

 very concave, marginally grooved disk ; style cylindric, tapering to the 

 apex, glabrous. Fruit closely adnate to the calyx-tube, 5-celled, many- 

 seeded. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1056 ; Beccari Malesia, I. 213. 



Peeak, at elevations of 5,000 to 6,700 feet : Wray 360, 1573, 4101 ; 

 Scortechini 1348 ; King's Collector 8025. — Disteib. Java, Sumatra. 



2. DiPLYCOSiA, Blume. 



Epiphytic shrubs, glabrous or setose, evergreen. Leaves coriaceous^ 

 alternate, entire or ciliate-serrate. Floivers small, axillary, solitary, on 

 pedicels bracteolate at the base. Calyx with 5 teeth or lobes, free or 

 half superior, accrescent in fruit, with 2 basal bracteoles connate into a 

 caly cuius. Corolla campanulate or urceolate, with 5 slightly imbricate 

 recurved lobes. Stamens 10, as long as the corolla, and inserted at its 

 base, quite included or with the tips of the anthers exserted ; anthers 

 elongate, oblong, produced at the apex into two straight valvularly- 

 dehiscing tubes, but without dorsal appendages. Disk cupular, 10- 

 lobed. Ovary 5-celled ; style filiform ; stigma simple ; ovules in the 

 cells numerous, attached to axile placentas. Fruit superior or half- 

 superior, included in the succulent accrescent calyx, 2-celled, dehiscing 

 by 5 valves, many-seeded. Seeds minute, cuneate ; testa lax, reticu- 

 late ; albumen fleshy ; embryo axile, cylindric. — Disteib. Species about 

 14, all Indian or Malayan. 

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