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New Caledonia and New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, or the Malay 

 Archipelago, 



Leucopogon, Br. 



Shrubs, erect or prostrate, branching, rarely trees. Leaves various, 

 sessile or petiolate, striate-nerved. Flmvers small, white, in axillary or 

 terminal spikes or racemes, the rachis ending in an imperfect flower; 

 bract 1, bracteoles 2 to 3 under the calyx. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla- 

 tube funnel-shaped or campanulate ; lobes 5, valvate in bud, patent or 

 upper part recurved, hairy within. Stamens fixed to the top of the 

 corolla-tube, filaments short, filiform ; anthers dorsifixed, included or 

 semi-exsert, linear or oblong. Ovary 2- to 5-celled ; style short or 

 elongated, terminal ; stigma sub-capitate ; ovules solitary in each cell, 

 pendulous. Fruit drupaceous, with a crustaceous or bony endocarp, 

 1- to 5-celled, cells 1-seeded. Seeds small. — Distrib. About 130 

 species, all but about 20 Austrahan, the rest in New Zealand, the 

 Pacific Islands, and the Malay Archipelago. 



Leucopogon malayanus. Jack in Mai. Misc. I. v. 20, and Hook. 

 Bot. Misc. II. 71. A small branching shrub, reaching 3 to 6 feet in 

 height ; branches grey, marked by the scars of fallen leaves, branchlets 

 very leafy ; branch-buds elongate, supported by imbricate parallel- veined 

 ciliate deciduous scales. Leaves alternate, sessile, stiff, entire, narrowly 

 lanceolate, acute and mucronatc at apex, 1*5 to 2-5 in. long, -3 to '5 in. 

 broad, shining and convex above, dull or glaucous beneath, ciliate when 

 young ; midrib none, nerves very close, slender, longitudinally parallel, 

 in old leaves scarcely visible. Flotvcrs in short axillary 3- to 7-flowered 

 spikes, -5 in. long, the last flower imperfect ; rachis villous, sometimes 

 flexuose ; bracts ovate, recurved, bracteoles 2, ovate, acute, ciliate, 

 closely embracing the calyx. Calyx-lobes 5, crustaceous, elliptic- 

 oblong, -125 in. long, ciliate. Corolla campanulate, '1 to '2 in. long ; 

 lobes 5, -1 to -15 in. long, spreading, villous within. Hypogynous scales 

 5, minute, free, obtuse. Stamens 5, short, alternate with the corolla- 

 lobes ; filaments inserted near the top of the anthers ; anthers curved, 

 pendent, opening longitudinally ; pollen globose. Ovary 5-celled ; 

 ovule 1 in each cell, oblong ; style erect, -05 in. long, villous ; stigma 

 sub-globose. Fruit a 5-celled baccate drupe, -1 to '2 in. in diam., each 

 cell 1-seeded. Seeds not seen. Wall. Cat. 3720 ; Wall, in Koxb. Fl. 

 Ind., ed. Carey and Wall. II. 301 ; G. Don Gen. Syst. III. 777 ; DC. 

 Prod. VII. 744 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1052 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XLVI. ii. 217, and For. Fl. II. 95 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. III. 477. Styphelia malayica, Spreng. Syst. IV. Cur. post, 67. 



Perak : Scortechim 760 ; Cantley 46 ; King's Collector 7428, 8056. 



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