82 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Perak, in heavy jungle at about 3,500 feet elevation : Scortechini ; 
Kunstler 2715. 
According to the field notes recorded by these two careful collectors the specimens 
gathered by Kunstler differ from those obtained by Scorteehini ; in the latter the 
scales were lurid purple and the flowers were white, in the former the scales were waxy 
white and the flowers bright yellow. The petals in Kunstler’s plant are sparingly 
hirsute within and the anthers are nearly twice as long. In other respects, however, 
the two plants are identical, and the doubt that one feels in connection with the two is 
not so much as to whether they are nonspecific, as it is as to whether this Malayan 
Cheilotheca be really specifically separable from the species from the Khasia Hills upon 
which Hooker originally based the very distinct genus Cheilotheca. The only very 
tangible differences are that in the Khasia plant only 3 to 4 scales can be with pro- 
priety considered sepals, whereas in the Malayan one the number of sepals, as apart 
from the upper scales or bracts, is 5 ; and that in the Khasia plant the anthers are 
long, like linear lips on each side of the connective, whereas in the Malayan plant the 
anthers are much shorter and distinctly hippocrepiform. The fruit appears to be 
quite indehiscent, and thus deviates from the fruit in other genera of Monotropcrr, 
which, so far as is known, is always loeulicidally dehiscent. 
Order LXVIII. EPACRIDEtE. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, rarely sub-opposite or 
pseudo-verticillate, articulated with the branches, sometimes fascicled 
or imbricate, coriaceous or rigid, persistent, entire, with parallel longi- 
tudinal nerves ; ex-stipulate. Flowers hermaphrodite, solitary and 
axillary or terminal, spicate or racemose, generally white or red ; usually 
bracteate and usually 2-bracteolate, the bracteoles similar to the sepals. 
Calyx 4- to 5-partite, the segments coriaceous, striate, imbricate, per- 
sistent. Corolla 4- to 5-fid, monopetalous, deciduous or sometimes 
marcescent ; the tube short or long, often cylindric or funnel-shaped ; 
the lobes short or long, erect, patent or recurved, imbricate or valvate, 
persistent. Stamens 5, rarely 4, hypogynous or epipetalous, the fila- 
ments short or long, filiform or flattened, free ; the anthers dorsifixed, 
oblong, dehiscing along their whole length by a single slit, 1-celled or 
spuriously 2-celled. Disk cupular, annular or of simple or bifid scales 
equal in number to the carpels. Ovary globose or ovoid, 1- to 10- 
celled ; style terminal, short or long, filiform ; stigmas punctiform, 
discoid or lobulate, sometimes annular or indusiate ; ovules in each cell 
solitary, pendulous, rarely erect ; or many on a central placenta. Fruit 
drupaceous, with 2 to 5 1-seeded pyrenes ; or a many-seeded capsule. 
Seeds small, with fleshy albumen, testa membranaceous ; embryo axile, 
orthotropous, smooth ; cotyledons short ; radicle elongate, near the 
liilum, — Distrib, About 320 species, nearly all Australian, a few in 
