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character is probably more marked than it would be at a 

 similar height on the side of a differently shaped hill, owing 

 to the steepness which refuses space for large trees, and the 

 consequent exposure and want of shelter on its sharp coni- 

 cal peak. 



XIV. EPACRIDE.E. 



STYPHELIA 

 LEUCOPOGON MALAY ANUM. ( W, J.) 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 

 N. O. Epacridece, 



Spicis axillaribus multifloris erectis brevibus, drupis glo- 

 bosis 5-locubaribus, foliis lanceolatis mucronatis subenerviis 

 subtus glaucescentibus. 



Mintada. Malay, 



Found abundantly at Singapore. Sandy littoral tracts 

 of Malacca , also on Mount Ophir, 



A small branchy shrub with hard dry leaves, exhibiting 

 the peculiar character of this family. Leaves alternate, 

 sessile, lanceolate, acute, mucronate, very entire, very smooth, 

 shining and convex above, somewhat glaucous below, and 

 when examined by the microscope, appearing to be covered 

 with numerous very minute white dots, firm, with scarcely 

 perceptible longitudinal nerves. Spikes axillary, erect, 

 much shorter than the leaves ; peduncles somewhat tomen- 

 tose. Calyx supported at the base by two oval acute con- 

 cave bracts, five-leaved, oblong, acute, leaflets lanceolate, 

 glaucescent, ciliate. Corolla infundibuliform, a little longer 

 than the calyx, quinquefid, puberulent, segments lanceolate, 

 bearded above beyond the base. Stamina five, short, alter= 

 nate with the laciniae ; Filaments subulate ; Anthers subpen- 



