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panicles several times longer than the leaves. Floivers not seen. 
Fruit on curved deflexed peduncles, -5 in. in length, globular, baccate, 
•2 in. in diam., crowned by the persistent disk and by the 5 minute 
triangular calyx-teeth, 10-eelled, the cells with more than one small 
angled seed. 
Perak : Scortechini 405 ; Wray, at an elevation of 6,700 feet, 
328. 
Var. minor, King & Gamble. Leaves only 1-2 to 1-6 in. in length, 
their 3 or 4 pairs of nerves not so much from the base of the midrib 
racemes not much longer than the leaves ; fruit only -15 in. in diam. ; 
pedicels under -2 in. long. 
Perak, at elevations of 5,000 feet : Scortechini 404 ; King’s Collector 
8020. 
5. Vaccinium Teysmanni, Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. II. 1062. A medium- 
sized tree ; young branches somewhat thinner than a goose-quill, dark- 
coloured and striate when dry. Leaves coriaceous, broadly obovate, 
often almost rotund-obovate or elliptic, rarely oblanceolate, the apex 
obtuse or rounded, rarely retuse or sub-acute, the base cuneate and 
merging in the broad, sometimes glandular petiole ; both surfaces 
glabrous and faintly reticulate, upper olivaceous when dry, shining, 
the lower dark-brown, the midrib broad on both ; main-nerves 4 to 6 
pairs, curving upwards and anastomosing freely, more prominent on 
the upper than on the lower surface ; length 2-5 to 3-5 in. ; breadth 1-25 
to 2’25 in. ; petiole - 2 to ‘4 in. long. Bacemes slender, often longer than 
the leaves, axillary and extra-axillary, their rachises somewhat com- 
pressed and angled, often puberulous ; pedicels slender, curved, minutely 
braeteolate or ebracteolate at the base, -15 to -2 in. long. Flowers - 35 in. 
long ; their pedicels "15 in. long, decurved or not, puberulous like the 
outside of the calyx. Calyx less than - 1 in. long, campanulate, with 5 
acutely triangular spreading teeth. Corolla white, puberulous, narrowly 
cylindrie, tapering slightly to the mouth ; lobes 5, very short, spreading 
or reflexed. Stamens 8 or 10, included or sub-exserted ; anthers nar- 
rowly oblong, with 2 long apical spurs, but without basal appendages, 
shorter than the tapering hairy filaments. Ovary hemispheric, deeply 
grooved ; style as long as the corolla, grooved ; stigmas 5, very short, 
linear. Capsule unknown. 
Perak : On Gunong Bubu, at elevations of 4,500 feet, Scortechini 
428, 443 ; Wray 1117, 3909 ; Curtis 3703. — Distrib. Java. 
6. Vaccinium bancanum, Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 587. A small 
tree ; young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, deciduously 
puberulous, pale and angled when dry. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to 
elliptic-oblong, the apex sub-acute acute or acuminate, the base 
