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glabrous on both sides, 12—18 em. long, 4—6 em. wide, secondary nerves 8--10 pairs, 
rather more prominent above than below ; Лошегз along the branches in few-flowered 
corymbs 4 em. long, peduncles pubescent about 5 mm. long, their bases surrounded. by 
small firm scaly bracts, pedicels 1°25 ст. long, slender, pubescent, in the axils of ovate- 
lanceolate, rigid, striate-reticulate bracts 4—5 mm, long,.with puberulous margins but 
elsewhere glabrous; calyz-tube globose, articulate with the slightly enlarged apex of 
pedicel, clothed with long yellow sprealing hairs with glandular tips, 2°5 mm. long, 
Jimb campanulate, 85 mm. long, reticulate throughout, the margin 5-toothed, teeth trian- 
gular, ӘӘ mm. long, glabrous within, sparsely covered externally with flaccid hairs; 
corolla tubular, straight, 15 mm. long, slightly inflated in the centre, the mouth shortly 
bluntly 5-lobed and slightly contracted, pubescent externally with flaccid hairs, the lobes 
green, the tube red not marked with lines; stamens 10, epigynous, free, the filaments 
almost as long as the anthers and glabrous as are the anthers which are 2-spurred behind 
their tubes and hardly reach the limb of the corolla; ovary 5-locular, style filiform, 
shortly 5-lobulate at the apex; ovules numerous. 
Каснік Hits: at Lakham, 4,100 feet; Pottinger! | 
A very distinct species separable from any hitherto described Agapetes by its 
large bracts and large calyx-limb the teeth of which are not partite to the disk as 
in most other specie:, It thus deserves to be treated as representative of a new 
section Holocalyx. 
Prate 58.—Agapetes Pottingeri Prain. 1, twig with leaves, 2; twig with flowers,—of natural 
size; 8, vertical section of flower; 4, calyx, laid open; 5, corolla; 6, corolla, laid open; 7, 8 and 
9, stamen, seen respectively from in front, from behind and sideways. 
D. P. 
PLATE 59, 
Desmocyne King & Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxvii. 2. 297 (1898). 
Natural order Vacciniacese. 
Cais tube round, enclosed in the enlarged cup-shaped subglobose pedicel-tip; limb 
much enlarged, widely campanulate, margin entire, persistent; . corolla tubular, 
narrowly funnel-shaped, elongate, tube straight, limb shortly 5-lobed, lobes erect; 
stamens 10, epizynous, as long as the Stolle, filaments free below among ара 
and from the corolla-tube, anthers elongated, straight, free, muticous behind, with 
straight slender connate membranous tubes, snther-cclls  muricu'ate; ovary 5 locular, 
style filiform, stigma  lobulate; ovules in each ` loculus numerous, attached to the 
inner angle. Epiphytie shrubs, leaves alternate, persistent, shortly petioled, coriaceous, 
entire.— T wo species or varieties from the Chin and Kachin Hills und from the 
Hukung valley. 
G. Bes D. 
60. DESMOGYNE NERIIFOLIA King § Prain in Journ, As. Soc. Beng, lxvii. 9, 297 (1898). 
Au epiphytic shrub with slender glabrous branches; /eaves alternate, oblong-lanceolate, 
apex caudate-acuminate, base rounded, short-petioled, margin entire, thickly coriaceous, 
10—15 ещ. long, 23-2:27 cm. wide, midrib prominent below grooved above, sccondary 
