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Calyx campanulate, with 5 broadly triangular erect lobes, closely 
applied to the fruit. Corolla widely campanulate, - 2 in. long, the teeth 
5, broad, blunt, short, reflexed. Fruit superior, sub-rotund, smooth, 
many-seeded, crowned by the fluted style ; seeds oblong, concave, com- 
pressed, numerous. 
Perak : Scortechini. 
3. Diplycosia erythrina, King & Gamble. A small tree, 10 to 
20 feet high ; young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, glabrous, 
pale-brown when dry, angled. Leaves thickly coriaceous, elliptic, the 
apex obtuse or sub-acute, the base acute, the edges recurved ; both sur- 
faces when dry pale-brown, the upper tinged with olivaceous, not 
reticulate, quite glabrous ; main-nerves 2 to 3 pairs, ascending, rather 
straight, faint on both surfaces ; length 1-5 to 2 in. ; breadth '75 to 1 in. ; 
petioles '1 in. long, stout. Racemes terminal, nearly twice as long as the 
leaves, with a large narrowly elliptic leaf-like bract '4 to '6 in. long, and 
•1 to -2 in. broad at the base of each flower-pedicel; pedicels deeurved, 
•15 in. long in the flower, rather more than twice as long in the fruit. 
Flowers -4 in. long. Calyx '2 in. long, campanulate, with 5 spreading 
triangular acute lobes. Corolla '35 in. long, cylindric, narrowed towards 
the throat, glabrous; the mouth with 5 short, broad, blunt, recurved 
lobes. Stamens 10, slightly exserted ; anthers broadly oblong, with 
neither apical nor basal appendages ; the filaments three times as long, 
broadening towards the base, pubescent. Ovary inferior, its disk con- 
vex, hairy ; style slightly exceeding the corolla, cylindric ; stigma small, 
capitate. Fruit oblong-globose, '2 in. in diam., surmounted by the 
indexed calyx-lobes, sub-glabrous, pericarp leathery; cells 5, each 
with several angular seeds. Vaccinium erythrinum, Hook. Bot. Mag. 
t. 4688. 
Perak, at elevations of 5,000 feet : Wray 3816 ; King’s Collector 
7349 ; Scortechini. — Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 
3. Pieris, D. Don. 
Trees or shrubs, with terete branchlets. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 
entire or serrulate, persistent. Racemes axillary and solitary, or ter- 
minal and in panicles ; pedicels bracteate and also with 1 or 2 brac- 
teoles. Calyx free, with 5 teeth or lobes ; the segments in bud open or 
valvate. Corolla ovoid or elongate-urceolate, with 5 short recurved 
teeth, white. Stamens 10 ; anther-cells ovoid-truncate ; filaments each 
with 2 divaricate horns from its apex or ex-appendiculate. Ovary 
globose with a lobed disk, 5-celled ; ovules numerous ; style cylindric ; 
stigma capitellate or truncate. Capsule globose, dry, 5-celled, with 
5-valved loculicidal dehiscence. Seeds many, linear-oblong, falcate, not 
