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short petioled : racemes axillary, rachis about the length of the 

 petioles, pedicels slender, longer than the peduncle : flowers tubular, 

 drooping : corolla 5 -cleft, variegated with darker zig-zag, lines : 

 stamens longer than the tube : horns of the anthers furnished near 

 the middle with two retrorse bristles, anther cells and filaments 

 pubescent. — R. W. Icon. 1187. 



Khasya, Griffith. 



Apparently a handsome species. The flowers spring from the 

 wood of the preceding year, covering the branches below the leaves. 

 The most distinctive peculiarity of this species is the position of the 

 antherial bristles, half-way up the tube, in place of on the back of 

 the anther cell. The leaves are about 6 inches long, by about 1 broad. 



Vaccinium (A.) neilgherrense, (R. W.) shrubby, glabrous, ex- 

 cept the pubescent young shoots and leaves : leaves lanceolate, acute 

 at the base, acuminate at the point, racemes longer than the leaves, 

 axillary, usually confined to the extremities of the branches : flowers 

 whitish or rose-coloured, short pedicelled, usually furnished with a 

 large foliaceous bractea : corolla ovate, slightly pubescent : filaments 

 hairy : anthers bristled : tubes dilated towards the apex. — R. W. Icon. 

 1189. 



On the low banks of streams, Neilgherries : abundant along the 

 banks of the Pycarrah river, for a mile or two above and below the 

 Bungalow. Flowering during the dry season, from February till 

 April. It is nearly allied by its technical characters to the former, 

 but is evidently quite distinct. The large foliaceous bracts supplies 

 the best distinguishing mark, but both in habit and locality it differs. 



Vaccinium (A.) affine, (R. W.) shrubby, everywhere glabrous : 

 leaves short petioled, from ovate lanceolate acuminate to elliptic 

 lanceolate, pointed at both ends, crenulato-serrated towards the point ; 

 racemes axillary, or more frequently from the previous year's wood, 

 about the length of the leaves : flowers secund drooping, pedicels as 

 long as the flowers : bracts foliaceous, lanceolate, caducous, with 2 

 subulate bracteoles at the base of the pedicels, corolla ovate : fila- 

 ments slender, subulate, as long as the anthers and tubes, sparingly 

 pubescent at the base : bristles nearly half the length of the tube : 

 anther cells roughish, small in proportion to the size of the tubes. — 

 R. W. Icon. 1190. 



