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grooves ; style slightly exserted, hairy below ; stigma small. Fruit 
globular, -2 in. in diam. 
Pebak, on Maxwell’s Hill, elevation 3,500 feet : Scortechini 39, 
428 ; King’s Collector 8415. 
This closely resembles V. bancanum, Miq., but it is an epiphyte. Its leaves, 
moreover, are narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, and they have only 3 pairs of main- 
nerves. The flowers of this are puberulous, and the month of the corolla, instead of 
being entire, has 5 broad, short, recurved lobes. The apical processes on the anthers 
are also of a different shape from those in V. bancanum. 
8. Vaccinium Hasseltii, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lngd. Bat. I. 40. An 
erect shrub ; young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, dark- 
coloured and angled when dry, glabrous. Leaves elliptic to elliptic- 
oblong, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, the apex acuminate (often caudately 
so) ; upper surface olivaceous-brown, the lower paler ; main-nerves 3 
pairs, very slightly curved and erect or ascending, the lower pairs 
passing almost to the apex, faint but distinct on both surfaces, some of 
the nerves transverse, the others vertical ; length 1-5 to 2-5 in. ; breadth 
•6 to 1-25 in.; petioles '2 to - 25 in. long, slender. Bacemes axillary and 
terminal, usually slightly longer than the leaves, their rachises at first 
puberulous but ultimately glabrous, ebracteolate ; flower-pedicels slender, 
curved or straight, about -15 in. long. Calyx shortly cupular, with 5 
spreading, broad, sub-acute or blunt teeth. Corolla about -35 in. long, 
sub-eylindric, narrowing upwards to the mouth ; the lobes 5, broad, 
blunt, erect or reflexed, very short, each bearing a small tuft of hairs. 
Stamens 10, as long as the corolla ; anthers oblong, with 2 apical beaks 
more than twice as long as themselves but with no basal appendages ; 
the filaments shorter than the beaks but longer than the anther-cells, 
broad and hairy at the base. Ovary much compressed, surmounted by 
a large, much corrugated disk ; style as long as the corolla, tapering, 
boldly ridged. Fruit globular, smooth, glabrous, -3 in. in diam., 
crowned by the minute calyx-lobes. V. bancanum, Miq., var. angusti- 
folium, Scheff. 
Pebak : King's Collector 7515 ; Berry 3702 ; Wray 4012. Pahang : 
Ridley 1363, 10895. Johore : Ridley 6316, 6323. Singapore : Ridley 
3030, 6316a, 8907. — Distbib. Bangka. 
9. Vaccinium acuminatissimum, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I. 36. 
Epiphytic shrub, 3 to 8 feet long ; young branches half as thick 
as -a goose-quill or less, clothed with short cinereous pubescence. 
Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, the apex 
caudate-acuminate, the base euneate, the edges when dry much re- 
curved ; both surfaces dark olivaceous-brown when dry : the upper 
