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Calyx campanulate, with 5 broadly triangular erect lobes, closely 

 applied to the fruit. Corolla widely campanulate, "2 in. long, the teeth 

 5, broad, blunt, short, reflexed. Fruit superior, sub-rotund, smooth, 

 many-seeded, crowned by the fluted style ; seeds oblong, concave, com- 

 pressed, numerous. 



Peeak : Scortechini. 



3. DiPLYCOsiA EEYTHEiNA, King & Gamble. A small tree, 10 to 

 20 feet high ; young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, glabrous, 

 pale-brown when dry, angled. Leaves thickly coriaceous, elliptic, the 

 apex obtuse or sub-acute, the base acute, the edges recurved ; both sur- 

 faces when dry pale-brown, the upper tinged with olivaceous, not 

 reticulate, quite glabrous ; main-nerves 2 to 3 pairs, ascending, rather 

 straight, faint on both surfaces ; length 1-5 to 2 in. ; breadth "75 to 1 in. ; 

 petioles •! in. long, stout. Bacemes terminal, nearly twice as long as the 

 leaves, with a large narrowly elliptic leaf-like bract "4 to '6 in. long, and 

 •1 to "2 in. broad at the base of each flower-pedicel ; pedicels decurved, 

 •15 in. long in the flower, rather more than twice as long in the fruit. 

 Floiuers -4 in. long. Calyx -2 in. long, campanulate, with 5 spreading 

 triangular acute lobes. Corolla "35 in. long, cylindric, narrowed towards 

 the throat, glabrous ; the mouth with 5 short, broad, blunt, recurved 

 lobes. Stamens 10, slightly exserted ; anthers broadly oblong, with 

 neither apical nor basal appendages ; the filaments three times as long, 

 broadening towards the base, pubescent. Ovary inferior, its disk con- 

 vex, hairy ; style slightly exceeding the corolla, cylindric ; stigma small, 

 capitate. Fruit oblong-globose, "2 in. in diam., surmounted by the 

 inflexed calyx-lobes, sub-glabrous, pericarp leathery; cells 5, each 

 with several angular seeds. Vaccinium erythrinum, Hook. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 4688. 



Peeak, at elevations of 5,000 feet : Wray 3816 ; King's Collector 

 7349 ; Scortechini. — Disteib. Java, Sumatra. 



3. PiEEis, D. Don. 



Trees or shrubs, with terete branchlets. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 

 entire or serrulate, persistent. Bacemes axillary and solitary, or ter- 

 minal and in panicles; pedicels bracteate and 'also with 1 or 2 brac- 

 teoles. Calyx free, with 5 teeth or lobes ; the segments in bud open or 

 valvate. Corolla ovoid or elongate-urceolate, with 5 short recurved 

 teeth, white. Stamens 10 ; anther-cells ovoid-truncate ; filaments each 

 with 2 divaricate horns from its apex or ex-appendiculate. Ovary 

 globose with a lobed disk, 5-celled ; ovules numerous ; style cylindric ; 

 stigma capitellate or truncate. Capsule globose, dry, 5-celled, with 

 5-valved loculicidal dehiscence. Seeds many, linear-oblong, falcate, not 

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