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■shining, faintly and minutely reticulate, glabrous except the puberulous 
midrib, lower surface dull, dark cinereous-puberulous, especially on 
the midrib and nerves ; main-nerves 4 or 5 pairs, unequal, slightly 
curved, ascending, the second lowest pair much larger than the others 
and more erect, all (like the midrib) depressed on the upper surface and 
bold and prominent on the lower ; length 3'5 to 5 in. ; breadth 1 in. to 
1'75 in.; petioles '15 in. long, pubescent aud with several short hispid 
axillary processes at their bases. Racemes axillary, shorter than the 
leaves, slender, pubescent ; flower-pedicels - 1 in. long, pubescent like 
the calyx, minutely bracteate at the base. Calyx when nearly ripe 
•15 in. in diam., with an ovoid-globular tube pubescent outside, the 
mouth with 5 triangular acute incurved lobes. Corolla not seen. Seeds 
several, compressed, black, pitted. Ericacea, Wall. Cat. 7528. 
Perak, at elevations of from 5,000 to 6,000 feet : Wray 1159, 1418, 
2821 ; Scortechini 472 ; King’s Collector 3509, 6734, 7810. Singapore : 
Ridley 6235. — Distrib. Sumatra (Beccari 516), Java, Borneo. 
10. Vaccinium malaccense, Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist VIII. 
(1847) 172. An erect shrub; all parts except the inflorescence glabrous; 
young branches as thick as a crow-quill, angled, brown when dry. 
Leaves coriaceous, lanceolate or elliptic, the apex acuminate, the base 
cuneate or acuminate, the edges finely crenate-serrate ; both surfaces 
brown when dry, the lower the paler ; main-nerves 4 or 5 pairs, slightly 
curved, ascending, interarcliing within the edge, not prominent on 
either surface ; length 1 to 2-25 in. ; breadth -6 to '9 in. ; petioles -1 to 
•15 in. long. Racemes axillary and terminal, longer than the leaves, many- 
flowered, puberulous like the pedicels and flowers; pedicels slender, 
curved downwards, -15 in. long (lengthening in fruit), each with 1 con- 
cave, lanceolate, caducous bract at its base, and 1 or 2 smaller subulate 
bracteoles inside it. Flowers - 3 in. long. Calyx eampanulate, under 
•1 in. long, its lobes narrowly triangular, acuminate, spreading. Corolla 
ovoid-cylindric, slightly narrowed to the mouth ; lobes of limb very 
short, reflexed. Stamens 10, shorter than the corolla ; anthers with 
2 apical beaks longer than themselves but with no basal processes ; 
filaments longer than the anthers, bulbous and hairy at the base. 
Ovary depressed, the disk thick ; style cylindric, ridged, a little shorter 
than the corolla. Fruit depressed-globose, glabrous, -35 in. broad. 
Wight Ic. 1186 ; Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 587 ; Clarke in Hook. f. 
PI. Br. Ind. III. 454. Epigynium malaccense, Klotzsch in Linmea, 
XXIV. 50. 
Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3458/1; Maingay (K.D.) 698; Lobb. 
Singapore : Ridley. Pahang : Ridley 1025. Perak : Ridley 3605. — 
Distrib. Bangka, Java, Cochin-China. 
