coloured scales. Stamens about 8, slightly or not at all exserted; filaments glabrous; anthers elliptic, small. Ovary scaly; style slightly exserted, glabrous; stigma clavate-hemispheric, lobed. Capsule 5 in. long, scaly, shortly apiculate, 5-valved, the valves not twisted in dehiscence.

PERAK, at elevations of 5,000 to 7,000 feet: Scortechini 401в, 753; Wray 311, 1572, 3840; Cantley.

6. RHODODENDRON JASMINIFLORUM, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4524. Usually epiphytic; a small shrub, only a few feet high; young branches somewhat less than half as thick as a goose-quill, glabrous. Leaves in whorls, thickly coriaceous, almost sessile, broadly elliptic to elliptic-rotund, the apex acute, the base rounded and minutely cordate; upper surface when dry pale olivaceous-brown, sometimes with a few small loose scales, the 5 to 7 pairs of spreading main-nerves slightly distinct and (like the midrib) depressed; the lower darker brown, not olivaceous, the nerves very faint but the midrib pale and prominent ; length 1.25 to 3 in.; breadth 1 to 1.5 in.; petiole 1 in. long. Umbels terminal, 8- to 20-flowered; the pedicels filiform, 75 to 1 in. long, scaly and hairy; bracteoles membranous, broad, glabrous, 25 to 5 in. long. Calyx a shallow toothed cup, less than 1 in. deep. Corolla white, salver-shaped; the tube narrowly cylindric, sparsely scaly or glabrous outside, about 15 in. in diam. and 1.25 to 1.6 in. long (when dry); the limb one-third as long, spreading, with 5 deep, broad, obovate-obtuse or rotund lobes. Stamens 10, the filaments shortly exserted, thin, pubescent; anthers short, broad. Ovary 5-celled, pubescent; style longer than the corolla-tube, pubescent; stigma depressed-capitate, grooved. Capsule about 75 to 1 in. long, narrowly sub-cylindric, much apiculate, ridged, its valves recurved to the base and often twisted. Lemaire, Jard Fleur. t. 41; Illust. Hortic. (1859) t. 203; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 463; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1059.

MALACCA, on Mount Ophir: Griffith (K.D.) 3504; Maingay (K.D.) 701; Ridley. PERAK: Wray 1635; Scortechini; King's Collector 3586, 3645, 6909; Ridley 124.-DISTRIB. Java, Sumatra.

7. RHODODENDRON LONGIFLORUM, Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. III. 88 with figure. Epiphytic; 3 to 6 feet high; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, densely scaly like the petioles. Leaves coriaceous, usually elliptic-oblong, sometimes elliptic or oblanceolate, sub-acute or acute, much narrowed to the base; upper surface when dry olivaceousbrown, coarsely and widely reticulate with broad black scales, especially on the depressed midrib, the 5 to 7 pairs of spreading main-nerves faint; lower surface brown, uniformly covered with black deciduous scales, ultimately glabrous; the main-nerves indistinct but the midrib.

stout and prominent; length 2.25 to 3.5 in.; breadth 8 to 1.5 in.; petioles 35 to 5 in. long, stout. Umbels terminal, 5- to 7-flowered; flowerpedicels 5 to 8 in. long, scaly or glabrous. Flowers about 2 in. long, glabrous outside, narrowly sub-campanulate, almost salver-shaped. Calyx small, cupular, with wavy edges, under 05 in. deep. Corolla red, infundibuliform; its tube about 25 in. wide near the base but expanding gradually to about 4 in. or more near the mouth, about three times as long as the broadly bluntly 5-lobed limb. Stamens 10, the filaments slender, pubescent, slightly exserted; anthers short, blunt. Ovary densely hairy like the style; stigma clavate. Capsule unknown. Fl. des Serres, V. p. 477-480F.

PERAK: Scortechini 385, 553, 1409; King's Collector 1864, 5181.— DISTRIB. Borneo, Sumatra.

8. RHODODENDRON MALAYANUM, Jack in Mal. Misc. II. n. 7, 17. An erect straggling shrub, 3 to 15 feet high, all parts more or less glandular and scaly; young branches less than half as thick as a goosequill. Leaves narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, the apex and base acute or sub-acute, the edges recurved when dry; upper surface shining, glabrous, and olivaceous when dry, the 5 to 8 pairs of main-nerves faint, slightly depressed, the midrib much depressed and often scaly; the lower of a deep uniform brownish-cinereous colour and with numerous dark scales, the nerves obsolete but the midrib bold and prominent; length 1-75 to 3.25 in.; breadth 75 to 1.25 in.; petioles 4 to 6 in. long, covered with large black scales. Umbels terminal, 3- to 5flowered. Flowers 8 in. long, their pedicels 25 to 35 in. long, slender, scaly. Calyx cupular, 5-toothed, less than 05 in. deep. Corolla red, glabrous, 8 in. long (when dry), salver-shaped, the tube about 2 in. in diam. when dry, about 6 in. long, the limb about 5 in. across when dry, with 5 broad, blunt, cuneate lobes. Stamens 10, their filaments glabrous. Ovary 5-celled; style slightly exserted from the throat of the corolla, glabrous; stigma clavate. Capsule about 1 in. long, slender, ridged, the valves much recurved, twisted. Hook. Journ. Bot. I. 369; DC. Prod. VII. 725; Bot. Mag. t. 6045; Beccari Malesia, I. 205; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 463. R. tubiflorum and R. celebicum, DC. 1.c. 725; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I. 44, t. 2AB; Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1059. R. lampongum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 585. Vireya tubiflora and V. celebica, Blume Bijdr. 855, 854.

MALACCA on Mount Ophir, 4,000 ft., Griffith (K.D.) 3503; Maingay (K.D.) 702; Wray; Kurz. PERAK: Scortechini 385, 2336; Wray 614; King's Collector 3227, 8076. PENANG: Ridley 125. SELANGOR: Ridley 7557.-DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java.

9. RHODODENDRON DUBIUM, n. sp., King & Gamble. A shrub or small

tree; young branches rather thinner than a goose-quill, pale brown when dry, slightly pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, oblongelliptic, the apex sub-acute, narrowed from about the middle to the acute or rounded base; both surfaces dull brown when dry and minutely reticulate, the lower pale; main-nerves 15 to 18 pairs, slightly curved, spreading, indistinct on the upper surface, rather distinct on the lower; the midrib very bold and prominent on the lower surface, faint and depressed on the upper; length 3.5 to 6 in.; breadth 1 to 2 in. ; petiole 75 to 1 in. long, stout. Umbels shortly stalked, 3- to 8-flowered; flower-pedicels unequal, 75 to 1.35 in. long, stout, glabrous. Flowers unknown. Calyx cupular, 1 in. deep, the mouth wavy. Ovary densely rufescent-pubescent. Capsule 4 to 7 in. long, rusty-pubescent, very slightly ridged, dehiscing by 5 straight valves, crowned by the persistent pubescent style.

367.

PERAK, at an elevation of 3,400 feet: Wray 233, 460: Scortechini

5. PERNETTYOPSIS, King & Gamble, nov. gen.

Small rigid epiphytic shrubs. Leaves alternate, on short hispid petioles, minutely sub-crenulate, coriaceous, persistent. Flowers solitary or in pairs, axillary, with 2 (rarely 3) rather large bracts at their bases forming an involucre; pedicels decurved in fruit. Calyx larger than the corolla, rotate, deeply 5-partite, persistent and unchanged in fruit. Corolla urceolate or ovoid, glabrous, the mouth constricted and with 5 short reflexed teeth. Stamens 10, free, included, the filaments slightly attached by their somewhat dilated bases to the bottom of the corolla-tube. Anthers short, inappendiculate at the back or base, oblong, the apices prolonged into 2 long porously dehiscing tubes. Ovary faintly 5-lobed, 5-celled; style columnar; stigma simple; ovules numerous, the placentas on the inner angles of the loculi. Berry globose, 5-celled. Seeds minute, compressed, numerous, angled; testa crustaceous.-DISTRIB. Species 2, both Malayan.

1. PERNETTYOPSIS MALAYANA, n. sp., King & Gamble. Epiphytic; a bush a foot or two in height; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, sparsely clothed near their apices with flat adpressed black bristles less than 1 in. long. Leaves thickly coriaceous, rotund, obovate to elliptic, the apex broad, minutely apiculate, the base slightly narrowed; upper surface olivaceous-brown when dry, shining, the midrib and main-nerves deeply depressed, the reticulations less so; lower

surface pale dull-brown, with sparse pits, each bearing a short adpressed dark hair, the edges wavy, sub-serrate and adpressed-ciliate; mainnerves 2 or 3 pairs, curving upwards and inwards and interarching, thick but faint on the lower surface; length 1.25 to 2 in.; breadth 75 to 1.35 in.; petioles 1 to 2 in., adpressed-bristly. Flowers solitary or in pairs, 4 or 5 in. long, axillary, pedicellate, the pedicels 3 to 4 in. long, twice as long (or more) in fruit, densely rustytomentose and recurved when young, erect and less woolly when old. Involucral bracts usually 2, thick, about 2 in. long, broad, glabrous inside, rusty-tomentose outside. Calyx larger than corolla, rotate, deeply divided into 5 lanceolate, somewhat spreading, lobes; rustytomentose outside and sub-glabrous inside. Corolla a little shorter than the calyx, glabrous, ovoid-globular, its mouth contracted and with 5 short reflexed teeth. Stamens 10, shorter than the corolla, and inserted near its base; anthers oblong, broad, cordate and inappendiculate at the base; the apex prolonged into 2 white apically porous tubes; filaments short, bent. Ovary sub-globular, laxly and deciduously tomentose, 5-celled; ovules numerous, oblong-concave, attached by the middle to the axillary placentas; style cylindric, slightly grooved, twice as long as the corolla. Fruit a berry with scanty pulp, blue when ripe, the seeds red.

PERAK, at elevations of about 6,500 feet, on the summit of Gunong Batu Pateh: Scortechini 402; Wray 312.

2. PERNETTYOPSIS SUB-GLABRA, n. sp., King & Gamble. A small, rigid, epiphytic shrub; young stems slightly thicker than a crow-quill, with a few adpressed bristles near the ends, otherwise glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, sub-rotund to elliptic-rotund, minutely apiculate; upper surface dull-brown, minutely reticulate, glabrous, the lower reddish-brown, with a few small adpressed hairs with black bases; main-nerves 3 or 4 pairs, curving upwards, deeply depressed on the upper surface like the midrib, less so on the lower; the edges minutely sub-serrate and sparsely adpressed-ciliate; length 8 to 1.5 in.; breadth 75 to 1.25 in.; petiole 15 to 25 in. long, adpressedbristly. Bracts under the flower 2 or 3, broad, rusty-pubescent externally like the pedicel. Calyx longer than the corolla, rotate, with 5 deep lanceolate spreading lobes, glabrous except the rustypubescent tips. Corolla, stamens, ovary, and style as in P. malayana. Fruit unknown.

PERAK, at elevations of 5,000 feet: Scortechini 752; King's Collector 7407.

Order LXVII. MONOTROPEÆ.

[By D. PRAIN.]

Leafless, erect, white or coloured root-parasites; stems herbaceous, scaly, simple or forked. Flowers solitary on the stem or branches, regular, hermaphrodite. Sepals usually resembling the scales, 2 to 6, often deciduous. Petals 3 to 6. Stamens 6 to 12, hypogynous, 2-seriate; filaments filiform or flattened; anthers 2-celled, or by confluence. 1-celled. Ovary superior, globose or fusiform, 1- to 6-celled; style cylindric, stigma peltate; ovules very many on axial or parietal placentas. Fruit capsular, loculicidally 4- to 6-valved, or indehiscent and baccate. Seeds very many, minute; testa often loosely saccate; embryo very minute, solid.-DISTRIB. Genera 9, in dense woods, mostly in temperate regions, all in the northern hemisphere.

1. CHEILOTHECA, Hook. fil.

Small herbs, with erect, simple or forked, white or coloured stems; branches 1-flowered. Sepals 3 to 5, narrowly oblong like the uppermost stem-scales. Petals 3, erect, obtuse. Stamens 6; anthers linear, cells 2, confluent at the apex, dehiscing by marginal slits or pores. Ovary fusiform, 1-celled, narrowed into the cylindric style; stigma globose-conic, usually slightly lobed; placentas 6, parietal, 2-fid, the segments covered throughout by numerous ovules. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent, baccate.-DISTRIB. Species 2, Indo-Chinese and Malayan.

1. CHEILOTHECA MALAYANA, Scort. in Hook. fil. Icon. Plant., XVI. t. 1564. A root-parasite in dense forest; stem herbaceous, erect, simple or 2- to 3-forked, 6 to 9 in. high, stoutish. Scales ovate-oblong, obtuse, imbricated, gradually increasing upwards, lurid purple (Scortechini) or waxy white (Kunstler). Flowers terminal on stem and branches, 1 in. long, hidden inside the uppermost scales, and bright yellow (Kunstler), or with the tips of the petals exserted and white (Scortechini). Sepals 5, resembling the uppermost scales, imbricate, linear-oblong, obtuse or sub-acute, glabrous. Petals 3, rather larger than the sepals, rounded-cucullate at the apex, externally glabrous, internally more or less pilose. Stamens 6, filaments puberulous or pilose, alternately somewhat shorter and longer; anthers short, innate, hippocrepiform, cells confluent at apex, dehiscing by marginal pores. Ovary narrowly fusiform; stigma obscurely 4-lobed; placentas 6, parietal. Fruit white, fleshy, baccate, 75 in. across, tipped by the persistent remains of the stout style. Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXIII. 2, 205.