70 -Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
2. Gaultheria leucocarpa, Blume Bijdr. 856. A slender climber; 
young branches as thick as a crow-quill, smooth, glabrous, pale-brown 
when dry. Leaves thinly coriaceous, broadly ovate, shortly rather 
abruptly and sharply caudate-acuminate, the base broad, emarginate or 
sub-cordate ; edges minutely crenate-serrate ; upper surface olivaceous- 
brown when dry, much and boldly reticulate, the nerves minutely 
hairy ; lower surface pale-brown, reticulate, glabrous ; main-nerves 2 to 
4 pairs, much curved, ascending, distinct on both surfaces ; length 2 to 
4 in. ; breadth 1 to 2 in. ; petioles -15 to -2 in. long. Racemes slightly 
supra-axillary, shorter than the leaves, their rachises compressed, 
glabrous or pubescent ; flower-pedicels rather less than - 1 in. long in 
flower, twice as long in fruit, each with a small ovate concave bract 
at its base. Floivers - 3 in. long ; their pedicels rather more than - 1 in. 
long, deflexed, puberulous, ebracteolate. Calyx less than -1 in. long, 
puberulous, campanulate, with 5 small spreading sub-acute triangular 
lobes. Corolla sub-cylindric, widest at the base and gradually tapering to 
the mouth, teeth of the mouth very short, blunt, erect. Stamens 10 ; 
anthers linear, beaked, shorter than the densely hairy tapering fila- 
ments. Ovary inferior, depressed-hemispheric, crowned by a thick, 
very concave, marginally grooved disk ; style cylindrie, tapering to the 
apex, glabrous. Fruit closely adnate to the calyx-tube, 5-celled, many- 
seeded. Miq. El. Ind. Bat. II. 1056 ; Beccari Malesia, I. 213. 
Perak, at elevations of 5,000 to 6,700 feet : Wray 360, 1573, 4101 
Scortechini 1348 ; King's Collector 8025. — Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 
2. Diplycosia, Blume. 
Epiphytic shrubs, glabrous or setose, evergreen. Leaves coriaceous,, 
alternate, entire or ciliate-serrate. Floivers small, axillary, solitary, on 
pedicels bracteolate at the base. Calyx with 5 teeth or lobes, free or 
half superior, accrescent in fruit, with 2 basal braeteoles connate into a 
calyculus. Corolla campanulate or urceolate, with 5 slightly imbricate 
recurved lobes. Stamens 10, as long as the corolla, and inserted at its 
base, quite included or with the tips of the anthers exserted ; anthers 
elongate, oblong, produced at the apex into two straight valvularly- 
dehiscing tubes, but without dorsal appendages. Disk cupular, 10- 
lobed. Ovary 5-celled ; style filiform ; stigma simple ; ovules in the 
cells numerous, attached to axile placentas. Fruit superior or half- 
superior, included in the succulent accrescent calyx, 2-celled, dehiscing 
by 5 valves, many-seeded. Seeds minute, cuneate ; testa lax, reticu- 
late; albumen fleshy ; embryo axile, cylindrie. — Distrib. Species about 
14, all Indian or Malayan. 
