Leucopogon.'] LXXXIV. EPACRIDE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 477 



KASHMIR ; alt. 8500 ft., Ailchison, C. B. Clarke. KHASIA Mrs. ; alt. 4-5000 ft., 

 H.f. $ T., &c. DISTRIB. Amurland, Japan, N. America. 



Scapes 6-18 in. Scales f in., ovate-oblong. Pedicels -1^ in. Petals % in., 

 yellow or white ; stamens and stigma nearly level with their summits. Ovary and 

 capsule globose. This only differs from the European species (Monotropa Hypopitys, 

 Linn.) by its hairiness ; and is considered a variety thereof by Maximowicz. 



3. CHEILOTHECA, Hook.f. 



Stem erect, simple or forked ; branches 1-flowered. Sepals 3-4, oblong-lan- 

 ceolate. Petals 3, erect, linear-oblong, obtuse, base not saccate. Stamens 6 ; 

 anthers linear-oblong, erect, dehiscing on the sides by longitudinal slits. Ovary 

 fusiform, 1-celled, narrowed into the short cylindric style; stigma globose- 

 conical ; placentae 6, parietal, bifid, the long branches covered on all sides by 

 numerous ovules. Fruit unknown. 



C. khasiana, Hook.f. in Gen. PI. ii. 608. 



KHASIA MTS. ; Mushai, near River Oongkot, alt. 3500 ft., H.f. $ T. 

 Stem 4-6 in. Scales 1 by J in., lanceolate, acute, densely imbricate. Petals 1 in., 

 yellow-red. Stamens as long as the petals, brown. Pistil f by in., glabrous. 



ORDEK LXXXIV. EPA CRZBEJE. (By C. B. Clarke.) 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, articulated with the branch, 

 coriaceous, entire, longitudinally nerved. Flowers solitary or racemose, axillary 

 or terminal, usually bracteolate. Calyx 5-4-partite ; segments coriaceous, striate, 

 imbricate, persistent. Corolla 5-4-ud. Stamens 5-4, usually on the corolla- 

 tube ; anthers oblong, 1-celled (spuriously 2-celled), dehiscing along their whole 

 length by a single slit. Ovary globose, 1-10-celled ; style terminal, cylindric, 

 stigma subcapitate ; ovules in each cell 1 or many. Fruit drupaceous with 2-5 

 1-seeded pyrenes, or a many-seeded capsule. Seeds small, albuminous. Species 

 320, nearly all Australian, a few Polynesian, 1 Fuegian, a few Malayan. 



1. LEUCOPOGON, R. Br. 



Shrubs. Flowers small, white, in axillary or terminal spikes or racemes ; 

 rachis terminating in an abortive flower ; bracteoles 2-3 under the calyx. 

 Corolla campanulate, lobes 5, hairy within, valvate in bud. Ovary 2-5-celled ; 

 style terminal ; ovule solitary in each cell, pendulous. Drupe scarcely fleshy, 

 1-5-celled. Species 130, 118 Australian, the others Polynesian and Malayan. 



Zi. malayanus, Jack in Mai. Misc. i. v. 20, and in Hook. Sot. Misc. ii. 71 ; 

 leaves narrowly lanceolate glabrous shining, racemes 3-7-flowered much shorter 

 than the leaves, rachis villous. Watt. Cat. 3720, and in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 

 Carey $ Wall. ii. 301 ; DC. Prodr. vii. 744 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 

 217, and For. Fl. ii. 95. Styphelia malayica, Spreng. Syst. cur. post, G7. 



MALACCA and SINGAPORE ; Jack, &c. DISTRIB. Malay Isles and Borneo. 



A shrub, 3-6 ft. ; branches densely leafy. Leaves 2 by ^ in., acute, mucronate. 

 Racemes % in. ; calyx enveloped by the ovate bracteoles ; segments -|- in., elliptic- 

 oblong. Corolla-tiibe in. ; lobes in., spreading. Hypogynous scales 5, free. 

 Style hairy or perfectly glabrous. Drupe |- in. diam. 



VAR. moluccana, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 217, and For. Fl. ii. 96 ; leaves 

 -1 in. subulate-pointed. L. moluccannm, Scheff. Obs. Phyt. iii. 97 (sp.). Tenas- 

 serim, Heifer; Keddah Peak, Low. L. moluccanum, Scheff., has the peduncles 1-2- 

 flowered; in Heifer's Tenasserim plant, the racemes are (sometimes at least) 3-5- 

 flowered. 



