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lobes triangular, often (but not always) ciliate along the 

 margins, 0.1 cm. long. Corolla tube broadly cylindric 

 slightly dilated in the middle, lobes short, acute, minutely 

 pustular on the edges, scarcely 0.1 cm. long. Whole corolla 

 0.5 cm. long, 0.4 cm. through, glabrous. Stamens, eight, 

 shorter than the tube, filaments broadly linear as long as the 

 anther cells, densely silky hairy. Anther cells oblong, 

 terminal processes as long, linear broad, parallel, glabrous, 

 no basal appendages. Style as long as the tube, thick, 

 glabrous, stigma hardly lobed. Fruit (not quite ripe) 

 spreading, on pedicels 1 cm. long, semiglobose, glabrous, 

 pustular, crowned with the erect calyx lobes and the longer 

 pulvinate disc, depressed in the centre 0.5 cm. long, 5-celled 

 with numerous angled seeds. 

 This handsome and floriferous species is allied to the 

 imperfectly known F. viscifolium, King and Gamble, from 

 which it differs in the shape and venation of its leaves and 

 the five-celled fruit. It is allied to V. Teysmanni, Miquel, 

 but has smaller leaves and different flowers. 



51. Vaccinium aedisioides, sp. nov. 



A shrub Avith slender dark-coloured branches and coriaceous 

 glabrous elliptic lanceolate leaves shortly acuminate at the 

 tip, nan'owed at the base, above smooth, dark brown when 

 dry, beneath cinnamom brown, gland-dotted. Nerves, two 

 pairs, rising from near the base of the midrib and running 

 upwards and one pair rising from the upper part of the 

 midrib but more spreading, all slender, midrib elevate on 

 the back depressed above, 3 cm. long, 1.3 em. wide, petiole 

 0.2 cm. Racemes shorter than the leaves, 2.5 cm. long. 

 Flowers secund on pubescent pedicels 0.5 cm., long. Calyx 

 pubescent, tube cup-shaped, lobes as long as the tube. 

 Corolla glabrous, 0.4 cm. long, ovoid with small acute lobes. 

 Stamens, 10, filaments hairy, flat, base broadly linear, 

 naiTowed upwards, twice as long as the small ellipsoid 

 anthers, pi'ocesses terminal, two, small, globose, yellow, no 

 basal processes. Style thick, twice as long as the stamens, 

 stigma rounded, disc white, hairy. 



Allied to V. Kunstleri, King and Gamble, but the sepals ar^ 

 larger, the corolla lobes acute, the anthers smaller with 

 different pi'ocesses and the flowers and leaves smaller. 



EllICACEyE. 



52. Rhododenbeon coeuscum, sj). nov. 



Branches stout, woody. Leaves coriaceous, oblanceolate or 

 oblong lanceolate apex obtuse or shortly acute, base 

 narrowed obtuse, midrib stout, narrowing to the apex, 

 elevate beneath, depressed above. Nex'ves 12 pairs, slender, 



