Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 83 
New Caledonia and New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, or the Malay 
Archipelago. 
Leucopogon, Br. 
Shrubs, erect or prostrate, branching, rarely trees. Leaves various, 
sessile or petiolate, striate-nerved. Flowers small, white, in axillary or 
terminal spikes or racemes, the rachis ending in an imperfect flower; 
bract 1, bracteoles 2 to 3 under the calyx. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla- 
tube funnel-shaped or campanulate ; lobes 5, valvate in bud, patent or 
upper part recurved, hairy within. Stamens fixed to the top of the 
corolla-tube, filaments short, filiform ; anthers dorsifixed, included or 
semi-exsert, linear or oblong. Ovary 2- to 5-celled ; style short or 
elongated, terminal ; stigma sub-capitate ; ovules solitary in each cell, 
pendulous. Fruit drupaceous, with a crustaceous or bony endocarp, 
1- to 5-celled, cells 1-seeded. Seeds small. — Distrib. About 130 
species, all but about 20 Australian, the rest in New Zealand, the 
Pacific Islands, and the Malay Archipelago. 
Leucopogon malayanus, Jack in Mai. Misc. I. v. 20, and Hook. 
Bot. Misc. II. 71. A small branching shrub, reaching 3 to 6 feet in 
height ; branches grey, marked by the sears of fallen leaves, branchlets 
very leafy ; branch-buds elongate, supported by imbricate parallel-veined 
ciliate deciduous scales. Leaves alternate, sessile, stiff, entire, narrowly 
lanceolate, acute and mucronate at apex, 1-5 to 2-5 in. long, -3 to '5 in. 
broad, shining and convex above, dull or glaucous beneath, ciliate when 
young ; midrib none, nerves very close, slender, longitudinally parallel, 
in old leaves scarcely visible. Floivers in short axillary 3- to 7-flowered 
spikes, • 5 in. long, the last flower imperfect ; rachis villous, sometimes 
flexuose ; bracts ovate, recurved, bracteoles 2, ovate, acute, ciliate, 
closely embracing the calyx. Calyx- lobes 5, crustaceous, elliptic- 
oblong, '125 in. long, ciliate. Corolla campanulate, ‘1 to - 2 in. long ; 
lobes 5, -1 to - 15 in. long, spreading, villous within. Hypogynous scales 
5, minute, free, obtuse. Stamens 5, short, alternate with the corolla- 
lobes ; filaments inserted near the top of the anthers ; anthers curved, 
pendent, opening longitudinally ; pollen globose. Ovary 5-celled ; 
ovule 1 in each cell, oblong ; style erect, -05 in. long, villous ; stigma 
sub-globose. Fruit a 5-celled baccate drupe, ’1 to '2 in. in diam., each 
cell 1-seeded. Seeds not seen. Wall. Oat. 3720; Wall, in Boxb. FI. 
Ind., ed. Carey and Wall. II. 301 ; G. Don Gen. Syst. III. 777 ; DC. 
Prod. VII. 741 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. II. 1052 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. XLVI. ii. 217, and For. FI. II. 95 ; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. 
Ind. III. 477. Styphelia malayica, Spreng. Syst. IV. Cur. post, 67. 
Perak: Scortechini 760; CantlcyiG', King’s Collector 7428,8056. 
