Aga^etes.'] lxxxi. TACCiNUCEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 443 



1. AGAPETZSS, D. Don. 



Shrubs, often epiphytic ; stems often greatly thickened at the base. Leaves 

 alternate, sometimes falsely whorled, from linear to elliptic, entire or toothed, 

 sessile or shortly petioled, often with glands at the apex of the petiole, usnally 

 coriaceous. Flowers axillary, corymbose fascicled or solitary ; pedicel often 

 thickened or articulate imder the ovary ; bracts small. Cdyx-tube globose ; 

 limb 5-tid or 5-partite, persistent. Corolla tubular or campanulate, shortly or 

 deeply 5-lobed, red, often with transvei:se niarks, or the lobes greenish-'white. 

 Stamens 10, filaments usually short ; anthers elliptic, produced upwards in 2 

 long beaks opening by apical pores or slits, often spurred behind. Ovary 5- 

 celled, or spuriously 10-celled ; style cylindric, stigma capitate ; ovules very 

 many. Berry globose, succulent or nearly dry, 6-ceiied or spuriously 10-celled, 

 often opening by 10 pores round the disk within the calyx-teeth. Seeds very 

 many, ellipsoid, outer coat very lax. — Species 30, from Nipal and Bhotan to 

 Borneo ; 1 in Fiji. 



Sbci. I. Corolla elongate, lobed less than half its length, curved at the apex. 

 Anthers not spurred on the back. Corymbs peduncled. 



1. A. setlg^era, 2). Don; O. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 862 ; leaves oblong or obo- 

 vate-lanceolate narrowed suddenly into the very short petiole, pedicels and calyx 

 more or less hirsute, filaments ^ in. DC. Prodr. vii. 554. A. variegata, DC. 

 Prodr. vii. 554, as to descr. only, not of D. Dan. A.hirsuta, Slotzsch in lAnncea, 

 xxiv. 38. Thibaudia setigera. Wall. Cat. 752. Vaccinium hirsutum, Wight Ic. 

 t. 1182. V. verticillatum, Wight Ic. t. 1181 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1873, 

 ii. 83, and 1877, ii. 213 {exclud. var. (i andy) ; For. Fl. ii. 87, var. 1. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 5000 fc, common ; extending thence to Tavoy. 



Branches round, glabrous or patently hirsute. Leaves 4 J by If in., often falsely 

 whorled, coriaceous, entire or slightly toothed, glahrous, outer nerve nearly marginal 

 or obscure. Peduncles } in., arising mostly from the nodes with the -whorls of leaves ; 

 pedicels J-1 in., widely dilated at the apex in fruit; bracts scarcely Jj in.; calyx-teeth 

 |- in. long, lanceolate. Corolla f by J in., hirsute or pubescent, without rarely glabrous, 

 deep red, the transverse V-shaped bars on the tube obscure. Filaments pilose or 

 glabrous ; anther-cells granular-scabrid. Fruit |- in., subglobose, ultimately nearly 

 dry, usually hirsute even when ripe, seeds escaping by 10 pores round the disc ; calyx- 

 teeth in fruit enlarged, half as long as the fruit or longer. 



Vab. vertioiUata ; leaves narrowed sometimes attenuated into the petiole. A. ver- 

 ticillata, D. Don ; <?. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 862 ; DO. Prodr. vii. 544. A. Wallichiana, 

 Klotzsch in Linnma, xxiv. 38. Thibaudia verticillata, Wall. Cat. 753. T. obliqua, 

 Griff. Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 515. Vaccinium Wallichianum, Wight lo. t. 1180. — Khasia 

 Mts., alt. 4000 ft. 



Vae. Boylei; leaves suddenly narrowed into the petiole, pedicels and calyx gla- 

 brous. Vaccinium Eoylei, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 2r4. V. variegatum, 

 (8 parviflorum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1873, ii. 84. Thibaudia variegata, Boyle 

 III. 267, t. 79, fig- 1. exclud. all syn. Agapetes variegata, HooJc.f. in Gen.Pl.ii.d71, 

 not ofDoii.' — Khasia Mts., alt. 4000 ft, extending to lower Birma. — The type example 

 of Wallich's Thibaudia variegata, n. 751, is the true Ceraiostemma variegatum of Roxb. ; 

 but some of Wallich's duplicate's issued as n. 751 are Agapetes setigera, whence has 

 arisen some confusion in the names adopted by Sir J. D. Hooker and by Kurz. 



2. A. macrostemon, Clarke; leaves oblong subsessile rounded at the 

 base, pedicels and calyx glabrous, filaments J-J in. Vaccinium macrostemon, 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1873, ii. 85 ; 1877, ii. 213 ; For. Fl. ii. 87. 



Beitish Bibma ; IVrartaban, alt. 4-6,000 ft., Kurz. 



An epiphytic shrub, 2-4 ft. Branches thick, angular upwards. Leaves 6 by 2 in., 



