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Peeak, in heavy jungle at about 3,500 feet elevation : Scortechini ; 

 Kunstlcr 2715. 



According to the field notes recorded by these two careful collectors the specimens 

 gathered by Kiinstler differ from those obtained by Scortechini ; in the latter the 

 scales were lurid purple and the flowers were white, in the former the scales were waxy 

 white and the flowers bright yellow. The petals in Kunstler's plant are sparingly 

 hirsute within and the anthers are nearly twice as long. In other respects, however, 

 the two plants are identical, and the doubt that one feels in connection with the two is 

 not so much as to whether they are conspeeific, as it is as to whether this Malayan 

 Cheilotheca be really specifically separable from the species from the Khasia Hills upon 

 which Hooker originally based the very distinct genus Cheilotheca. The only very 

 tangible differences are that in the Khasia plant only 3 to 4 scales can be with pro- 

 priety considered sepals, whereas in the Malayan one the number of sepals, as apart 

 from the upper scales or bracts, is 5 ; and that in the Khasia plant the anthers are 

 long, like linear lips on each side of the connective, whereas in the Malayan plant the 

 anthers are much shorter and distinctly hippocrepiform. The fruit appears to be 

 quite indehiscent, and thus deviates from the fruit in other genera of Monotrojoece , 

 which, so far as is known, is always loculicidally dehiscent. 



Order LXVIII. EPACEIDE^. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, rarely sub-opposite or 

 pseudo-verticillate, articulated v/ith the branches, sometimes fascicled 

 or imbricate, coriaceous or rigid, persistent, entire, with parallel longi- 

 tudinal nerves ; ex-stipulate. Flotvers hermaphrodite, solitary and 

 axillary or terminal, spicate or racemose, generally white or red ; usually 

 bracteate and usually 2-bracteolate, the bracteoles similar to the sepals. 

 Calyx 4- to 5-partite, the segments coriaceous, striate, imbricate, per- 

 sistent. Corolla 4- to 5-fid, monopetalous, deciduous or sometimes 

 marcescent ; the tube short or long, often cylindric or funnel-shaped ; 

 the lobes short or long, erect, patent or recurved, imbricate or valvate, 

 persistent. Stamens 5, rarely 4, hypogynous or epipetalous, the fila- 

 ments short or long, filiform or flattened, free ; the anthers dorsifixed, 

 oblong, dehiscing along their whole length by a single slit, 1-celled or 

 spuriously 2-celled. Disk cupular, annular or of simple or bifid scales 

 equal in number to the carpels. Ovary globose or ovoid, 1- to 10- 

 celled ; style terminal, short or long, filiform ; stigmas punctiform, 

 discoid or lobulate, sometimes annular or indusiate ; ovules in each cell 

 solitary, pendulous, rarely erect ; or many on a central placenta. Fruit 

 drupaceous, with 2 to 5 1-seeded pyrenes ; or a many-seeded capsule. 

 Seeds small, with fleshy albumen, testa membranaceous ; embryo axile, 

 orthotropous, smooth ; cotyledons short ; radicle elongate, near the 

 hilum. — DiSTRiB. About 320 species, nearly all Australian, a few in 

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