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somewhat dilated beyond the width of the style, almost lobeless ; ovulary five-celled, 
reaching nearly the calyx-lobes; placentaries ovate, convex, extending upwards 
hardly beyond the middle of the fruit-cavities ; ovules very numerous, obliquely 
narrow-ellipsoid. 
Mount Victoria. 
Leaves generally from half to one inch long, shining above. Corolla fully an 
inch long, probably red. Ripe fruit not yet obtained. This Vaccinium or Agapetes 
has for its specific name that of a young and accomplished daughter of the 
discoverer. V. Myzomeleae, of which the size of the leaves remains unrecorded, is 
glabrous throughout, has the leaves more narrowed at the base, the pedicels devoid 
of bracteoles at the middle, a somewhat shorter corolla more constricted under the 
lobes, much shorter stamens with thinner filaments and blunter anther-lobes. 
VY. puxophyllum (Agapetes buxifolia, Nutt. in Hook. Bot. Mag. 5012) has the leaves 
crenulated and gradually narrowed towards the base, the calyx-lobes and coralla- 
lobes longer, while the anthers are minutely appendiculated at the base. It has 
been given formerly already as my opinion, that Agapetes should merge into 
Vaccinium ; because the leneth of the corolla and the disposition of the flowers are 
affording no definite characteristics, several species effecting the transit. 
Vaccinium Macbainit. 
Glabrous; branchlets robust, angular; leaves rather small, on very short stalks, 
of quite firm consistence and thick texture, from orbicular-to elliptic-ovate, flat, 
faintly and distantly crenulated and glandularly denticulated, shining on both sides, 
scattered-dotted beneath, biglandular at the base; their main-venules rather 
prominent ; corymbs crowded between the upper leaves, each with several or few 
flowers; pedicels stoutish, angular, recurved, about as long as the flowers, bearing 
two small deltoid-semilanceolar persistent bracteoles near the base; an articulation 
between calyx and pedicel; tube of the calyx companular-semiovate, lobes thrice 
shorter than the tube, nearly deltoid ; corolla rigidulous, somewhat longer than the 
calyx, beyond or to the middle cleft into semilanceolar lobes ; stamens slightly shorter 
than the corolla; filaments broadish, somewhat coherent and ciliolated; anthers 
anteriorly extended downward along the filaments but free there, almost equally 
broad throughout, their tubules connate; style partly exserted, with a scarcely 
broader stigma; ovulary impressed at the centre of its summit, multiovulate. 
Mount Knutsford. 
Leaves hard, blunt, three-quarters by one and a half inches long, broadest 
towards the base. Corolla measuring about one-third of an inch in length, its inner 
ling membrane less deeper slit than the outer more solid stratum. Stamens 
monomorphous, about one-quarter of an inch long; style longer.  Fruit-calyx 
turgid. 
