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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Corolla long and tubular or campanulate, with long segments : — 
Calyx-tube terete . . . . . . . . 1. Agapetes. 
Calyx-tube 5-winged or 5-angled . . . . . . 2. Pentaptebygiusi- 
Corolla small, campanulate or ovoid, its lobes short . . 3. Vaccinium. 
1. Agapetes, D. Don. 
Shrubs, often epiphytic, the stems often much swollen near the 
base. Leaves usually coriaceous, alternate, sometimes in pseudo- 
whorls, from linear to elliptic, entire or toothed, sessile or with short 
petioles, often glandular near the base. Flowers axillary, solitary, 
corymbose or in fascicles ; the pedicel often thickened or articulate 
under the ovary, bracts small. Calyx globose, the limb with 5 per- 
sistent teeth or lobes. Corolla tubular or campanulate, the limb with 
short or long lobes, red, but often with transverse marks or with 
greenish-white lobes. Stamens 10, usually with short filaments ; 
anthers oblong, each with 2 long apical processes, opening by pores or 
slits, often spurred behind. Disk pulvinate, often lobed. Ovary 5-celled 
or falsely 10-celled ; style cylindric ; stigma capitate ; ovules numerous. 
Berry globose, nearly dry or succulent, 5- or 10-celled, sometimes open- 
ing by pores round the disk within the calyx-teeth. Seeds numerous, 
ellipsoid, testa lax. — Distrib. 30 species, mostly Himalayan, a few 
Malayan. 
Agapetes Griffithii, Clarke in Hook. f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 449. 
An epiphytic shrub, 3 to 15 feet long, with a tuberous stem ; young 
branches half as thick as a goose-quill, terete, glabrous. Leaves 
thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, always caudate- 
acuminate, the base rounded, both surfaces pale olivaceous-brown when 
dry, glabrous, minutely reticulate ; main-nerves 5 or 6 pairs, curved, 
ascending, faint on both surfaces ; length 3 - 5 to 6 in. ; breadth 1 in. to 
2-65 in. ; petiole -15 in. long or under. Flowers -3 to -4 in. long, axillary, 
always on slender pedicels four or five times as long as themselves, 
with 1 or 2 narrow bracteoles near the base, glabrous, axillary, solitary, 
in pairs or in lax racemes. Calyx ’1 to -2 in. long (enlarging in fruit), 
campanulate, with 5 deep spreading triangular lobes. Corolla ‘25 in. 
long, tubular-eampanulate, the mouth with 5 triangular sub-erect 
acute lobes. Anthers inserted at the base of the corolla-tube, linear, 
with 2 long apical beaks dehiscing longitudinally, and 2 posteriorly- 
projecting curved spurs ; filaments shorter than the anthers, hairy. 
Fruit globular, glabrous, crowned by the small indexed calyx-lobes- 
Seeds about 20, compressed, tubercled, black. 
Malacca : Griffith. Perak : -at elevations of 2,800 to 4,000 feet, 
Wray 1071; King’s Collector 3831, 6363, 8051; Ridley 5532; Scortechini. 
