Vaccinium.'] LXXXI. VACCINIACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 455 



pubescent, teeth triangular acute entire, corolla pubescent without. Epigyniurn 

 neilgherrense, Klotzsch in Linneea, xxiv. 50. 



NILGHERRY Mrs. ; alt. 4-8000 ft., frequent. 



Closely resembling V. Griffithianum, differing in the points stated and in the 

 larger leaves, 2^-3 by - in. V. chinense, Champ, in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 297, 

 does not appear to differ except by the wider ovate or oblong leaves. 



17. V. Iieschenaultii, Wight Ic.t. 1188 ; leaves ovate or oblong acute 

 or obtuse minutely toothed glabrous, racemes pubescent, bracts caducous, anthers 

 spurred. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 277. Andromeda symplocifolia, Wall. Cat. 1522. 

 Agapetes symplocifolia, G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 862 ; DC. Prodr. vii. 555. A. 

 ? arborea, DC. Prodr. vii. 555. Epigynium Leschenaultii, Klotzsch in Linnaa, 

 xxiv. 50. 



Mrs. of SOUTHERN INDIA and CEYLON ; alt. 4-8000 ft., common. 



The typical form of this species hardly differs from V. Donianum, n. 12, but by 

 the pubescent innovations and racemes ; the flowers and berries are rather larger. 

 The leaves are 2-3 in. long, elliptic-lanceolate. The following varieties differ however 

 considerably in general aspect. 



VAB. arborea, Leschenault ; arboreous, brauchlets and racemes very stout nearly 

 glabrous, pedicels J in., berries ^ in. diam. and upwards. 



VAR. rotundifnlia ; leaves l-l in. diam. orbicular obtuse sometimes retuse. V. 

 rotundifolia, Wight 111. t. 139 ; Bedd. For. Man. p. 136. Ceylon. 



VAR. zeylanica; bracts large leaf-like and as persistent as the leaves,, so that the 

 pedicels are axillary solitary. Ceylon, Thwaites, &c. This remarkable plant appears 

 to be a form of the var. arborea; the bracts (in Thwaites. n. 270) attain l by f in. 

 and are coriaceous ; pedicels ^ in., stout, recurved in fruit ; berries large. It is 

 connected with V. Leschenaultii by intermediate forms having large but membranous 

 subcaducous bracts. 



4. CORALLOBOTRYS, Ilook.f.. 



An epiphytic shrub; branches round. Leave* alternate, petioled, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, obtusely serrate, coriaceous, base 2-glandular. Peduncles axillary, 

 from below the leaves ; flowers corymbose ; pedicels thickened upwards, articu- 

 lated and cup-shaped under the ovary ; bracts very small. Calyx-tube hemi- 

 spheric; lobes 5, small, triangular, persistent. Corolla small, globose-campanu- 

 late, red ; teeth 5, small, recurved. Stamens 10, epigynous, free ; anthers 

 oblong, produced into 2 short tubes upwards, dehiscing by short terminal slits. 

 Ovary 5-celled ; style cylindric, somewhat thickened in the middle, stigma 

 capitate ; ovules numerous in each cell. Fruit unknown. 



C. acuminata, Hook. f. in Gen. PI. ii. 575. Thibaudia acuminata, Wall. 

 Cat. 6297. Agapetes acuminata, G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 862; DC. Prodr. vii. 

 554. Epigynium acuminatum, Klotzsch in Linncea, xxiv. 51 ; Sot. Mag. t. 

 5010. Vaccinium acuminatum, Kurz in Joum* As* Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 214, and 

 For. Fl. ii. 90. 



KHASIA MTS. ; alt. 3-4000 ft., Wallich, Griffith, H.f. $ T., &c. BHOTAN, Nuttall. 

 ?PEGU, Griffith. 



A shrub, 2-4 ft.; branches thick. Leaves 5 by 1| in., sometimes 10 by 2f in. ; 

 base cuneate, glabrous ; petiole -f in. Corymbs red ; peduncle ^-^ in. ; pedicels 

 ^ in. ; bracts ^ in. Calyx-tube cinereous pubescent or glabrous ; teeth in. Corolla 

 I by ^ in., glabrous or glandular-puberulous without. Filaments short, sparsely 

 pilose ; anther-cells glandular-ecabrid. 



