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peduncles, slender, and like the calyx and corolla, hairy : filaments 

 short : anthers pubescent, without bristles, ending in two long tubes, 

 cohering nearly half their length. — R. W. Icon. 1182. 



Sylhet? I received the specimen along with the above, No. 1180, 

 from Dr. Wallich, without station or name. Though rather imper- 

 fect, I have ventured to introduce a figure of it, being so very distinct 

 from all I have seen, nor does it correspond with any described 

 species. 



Vaccinium (A.) serpens, (R. W.) shrubby, procumbent : branches 

 terete, the young shoots clothed with coarse dark brown hairs : 

 leaves coriaceous, subsessile, distichous, subcordato-ovate, obtuse, 

 mucronate, glabrous on both sides, recurved, and slightly denticulate 

 on the margin ; flowers axillary, solitary or rarely paired : pedicels 

 shorter than the leaves, slender, hairy : calyx tube 5 -winged, lobes 

 of the limb membranaceous ovate, ciliated, with glandular hairs : 

 corolla tubular : filaments short, pubescent : anthers without bris- 

 tles, cells short, ending in long filiform tubes. — R. W. Icon. 1183. 



Bootan, Phullong Woods, Griffith. 



This seems quite procumbent, probably growing like ivy on trees. 

 The leaves are from 8 to 10-lines long, and half as broad, ovate, or 

 sometimes slightly cordate at the base when dry, somewhat corru- 

 gated on the surface, convex above, each ending in a bristle. The 

 dried calyx is brownish, scariose and translucent when wetted, the 

 lobes decurrent, forming wings to the tube, corolla about 15 -lines 

 long, glabrous within. 



Vaccinium (A.) serratum, (R. W. Gaylussacea serrata, Lind- 

 ley, Royle, Dunal.) stem fruticose : leaves approximated, narrow, 

 lanceolate, serrated, acute, rigid, coriaceous, shining, shortly petioled : 

 bracts coloured, subulate : racemes, axillary, few flowered : flowers 

 withering, long pedicelled, whitish-green. — D. C. Prod. 7, 558. R. 

 W. Icon. 1184. 



Khasya, Griffith. 



A careful comparison of the specimens with Royle's figure, and 

 with the character of the species, satisfies me, that this is really his 

 plant, in which case the analysis shows, that it is a true Vaccinium, 

 and that Dr. Lindley must have been misled by dissecting mature 

 fruit, into the supposition that it had a 10-celled ovary. 



