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SUPPLEMENT 
cylindric stout. Stigma oblong-conoid, blunt, vertically grooved. 
Hab. Johor, Kluang (Holttum 9433). 
VoL ii. p. 177, after genus 67, Knoxia, insert :— 
68. NERTERA, Banks. 
Small creeping herbs. Leaves herbaceous or fleshy. Flowers 
very small, axillary, sessile. Calyx-tube ovoid truncate or 4- 
toothed. Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped, 4-lobed. .Stamens 4, 
inserted at base of corolla. Ovary bilocular; ovule i in a cell. 
Styles 2, elongate pilose. Berry globose fleshy, of 2 cocci, red or 
orange. Seeds 2, plano-convex. Species 14, New Zealand, tropical 
Asia (in mountains) and South America. 
(i) N. depressa Batiks and Solander in Gaertn, Fruct. i. 124, 
t. 26; DC. Prodr. iv. 451; Hook. fil. Boi. Mag. t. 5799. 
A densely tufted low creeping herb i to 2 in. tall. Leaves ovate- 
deltoid, base broad retuse glabrous fleshy, dark green, *25 in. long, 
and as wide; petioles -i in. long or more. Flowers sessile, solitary 
in the axils, pale green, -i in. long. Berry as large as a pea, bright 
orange to red. Hab. High mountains on banks, Pahang, Gunong 
Tahan at 5000 to 7000 ft. altitude (Haniff). Disirib. New Zealand, 
Tristan d’acunha, Java, Borneo, Andes from Cape Horn to New 
Grenada. 
The Pahang locality is the furthest west known in the Old World. 
Order LXXX. Vacciniace.®. 
Vol. ii. p. 205, after sp. 3, Agapetes Wrayi RidL, insert :— 
(4) A. pubescens Ridl. fourn. Bot. 1924, p. 298. 
Epiphyte; branches and inflorescence pubescent. Leaves 
lanceolate long-acuminate, base rounded; nerves conspicuous 
above, slender, about 8 pairs, inarching within the margin, nervules 
broken up, all glabrous except the base of the midrib, beneath 
pubescent: 5 in. long, 1-5 in. wide; petioles thick, -i in. long. 
Cymes axillary, of 3 or 4 flowers; peduncle -3 in. long; pedicels 
•5 in. long, all pubescent. Calyx-tube -i in. long, sub-globose, 
pubescent, lobes lanceolate acuminate, as long, pubescent. Corolla- 
tube -25 in. long, cylindric, thick, lobes sliort, recurved, green. 
Stamens not exsert. Hab. Mountains, Pahang, Fraser Hill at 
4000 to 4370 ft. altitude (Burkill and Holttum 7828). 
Allied to and much resembling A. perakensis Ridl., but distinct 
in its pubescence, conspicuous leaLiierves and slightly larger flowers. 
Order LXXX VI. Myrsine.®. 
Vol. ii. p. 246, after sp. 26, Ardisia montana King and Gamble, 
insert :— 
(26A) A. iteophylla Ridl. fourn. Bot. 1924, p. 298. 
Shrub; young parts and inflorescence scurfy. Leaves thin 
coriaceous, narrow-lanceolate, bluntly acuminate, base equally 
narrowed beneath, minutely dotted brown scurfy; nerves incon- 
