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of the plant are densely villous, but the hairs are easily 

 rubbed away. In drying, the plant assumes a bright yellow 

 colour. It appears extremely doubtful whether this plant 

 be truly referrible to Phyteuma; it does not however agree 

 well with any other genus of the family of Campanulaceae, 

 and it will deserve consideration whether it ought not to 

 constitute a new genus in that order. 



XII. VACCINIEiE. 



VACCINIUM SUMATRANUM. (W,J.) 



Racemis axillaribus foliis brevioribus, foliis elliptico ovatis 

 integerrimis coriaceis. 



Found on the summit of Gunong Bunko, or the Sugar-loaf 

 Mountain, in the interior of Bencoolen. 



A small tree, with reddish brown bark and smooth bran- 

 ches. Leaves alternate, short petioled, elliptic-ovate, acu- 

 minate, sometimes obtuse, entire, edges a little reflexed, 

 very smooth, firm, stiff and leathery, pale green beneath ; 

 about four inches long. Stipules none. Racemes axillary, 

 shorter than the leaves, often from the stem below them ; 

 flowers white pedicellate, alternate. Caylx small, cup-shaped, 

 slightly four-toothed. Corolla oblong ovate, contracted at 

 the mouth ; limb short, recurved, four-parted. Stamina eight, 

 incluse, inserted on the base of the coral ; filaments dilated 

 at the base, pilose, tinged with red ; anthers two-lobed, be- 

 tween which are two short filaments or processes, each lobe 

 prolonged upwards into a membranaceous horn or awn 

 which is bifid at top and opens by a pore. Ovary semi-in- 

 ferior, four-celled, polysporous, ovula attached to the inner 

 angles of the cells. Style columnar, a little longer than the 

 stamina, incluse. Stigma round, obtuse. 



