62 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Leaves pubescent or puberulous beneath : — 



Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-lan- 

 ceolate, with very long caudate acuminate apices ; 



under surface pubescent or puberulous . . . . 9. F. aeuminatissimum. 



Leaves serrate (sometimes faintly so) sub-coriaceous, 

 glabrous ; flowers -3 in. long ; beaks of anthers twice 

 as long as the cells . . . . . . . . 10. V. malaccense. 



1. Vaccinium Scortechinii, n. sp., King & Gamble. A small 

 tree or large shrub ; young branches rather thicker than a crow-quill, 

 dark and much angled when dry, glabrous. Leaves small, coriaceous, 

 elliptic or obovate-elliptic, the apex rounded, the base slightly cuneate, 

 the edges much recurved ; upper surface olivaceous-brown, shining 

 when dry ; the lower brown, dull, faintly reticulate ; sparsely scaly ; 

 main-nerves a single pair, rarely 2 pairs, curving upwards, converging 

 at their apices, faint on both surfaces ; the midrib depressed on the 

 upper surface, prominent on the lower; length -3 to "45 in. ; breadth 

 ■25 to "35 in. ; petiole very short. Floioers about -35 in. long, solitary, 

 axillary, their pedicels less than -1 m. long, minutely bracteate at the 

 base, pubescent like the outside of the calyx and corolla. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, the 5 teeth triangular, acute, erect. Corolla about -3 in. long, 

 cylindric, inflated below and tapering to the mouth ; the lobes short, 

 broad, blunt, erect or reflexed. Stamens 10, each with 2 apical truncate 

 beaks shorter than themselves, but no basal processes ; filaments longer 

 than the anthers, hairy. Ovary with a flat top, 5-celled, each cell with 

 several ovules. Style cylindric, nearly as long as the corolla, pubescent 

 in its lower third, otherwise glabrous. Fruit globular, crowned by the 

 inflexed calyx-lobes, tomentose, many-seeded ; seeds not compressed. 



Pebak: Scortechini ; Wray, at elevations of 6,000 and 6,700 feet, 

 888 and 356 ; King's Collector 8028. 



By the fall of the leaves, in the axils of which they are produced, the flowers 

 appear as if they were in racemes. This closely resembles V. buxifolium and V. 

 coriaceum, Hook, fil., of which figures are given in Hook. le. PL t. 891 and 892, but 

 this has much narrower flowers and broader leaves than either. 



2. Vaccinium mickophyllum, Blume Bijdr. 851. Epiphytic on 

 tall trees ; a small much-branched shrub ; young branches as thick as 

 a crow-quill, with small black deciduous scurf. Leaves coriaceous, 

 ovate or elliptic, the apex and base blunt, the former sometimes with a 

 minute apiculus ; upper surface bright olivaceous and shining when dry, ■ 

 the lower pale-brown and dull, both faintly reticulate when dry ; main- 

 nerves usually a single pair, curving upwards from the base of the mid- 

 rib and passing to near the apex a little inside the edges, depressed like 

 the midrib on the upper surface when dry, but very faint on the lower ; 



