2. PENTAPTERYGIUM, Klotsch.

Shrubs,, often epiphytic and with stems much thickened at the base. Leaves alternate, ovate or lanceolate, sub-entire or toothed, coriaceous, often with glands at the apex of the petiole. Flowers axillary, solitary, fascicled or corymbose; the pedicels thickened near the apex, cupular and jointed under the ovary, bracts small. Calyxtube large, tubular, with 5 wings or prominent angles; its lobes 5, enlarged in fruit. Corolla tubular, the mouth with 5 short lobes, coloured red or yellow, and often transversely marked. Stamens 10, epigynous, the filaments short; anthers elliptic, produced into 2 long beaks, opening by apical pores or slits, and often spurred behind. Ovary 5-celled or spuriously 10-celled; style cylindric, often exserted; stigma sub-capitate; ovules very numerous. Fruit baccate, 5-winged or 5-ribbed, 5-celled or spuriously 10-celled. Seeds numerous, ellipsoid. -DISTRIB. About 6 species, natives of Eastern Himalaya, Khasia, Malay Peninsula.

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PENTAPTERYGIUM SCORTECHINII, n. sp., King & Gamble. mentose shrub, 4 to 10 feet long, growing on rocks or trees; young branches somewhat thinner than a goose-quill, terete, glabrous, pale brown when dry. Leaves thickly coriaceous, ovate to ovate-rotund, the apex blunt or sub-acute, the base broad and rounded but sometimes slightly emarginate, the edges much recurved when dry; upper surface shining, glabrous, pale olivaceous-brown; the lower darker; midrib strong, deeply depressed on the upper surface, prominent on the lower; main-nerves about 4 pairs, spreading, the two lower much the larger, all curved, mostly depressed on the upper surface and prominent on the lower; length 1.75 to 3 in.; breadth 8 to 2 in.; petioles 25 to 4 in. Flowers 1 in. long, few together, in axillary or terminal corymbs; their pedicels about 6 in. long, with 1 or more linear bracts at the base. Calyx inflated, tubular, narrowed towards the mouth, glabrous, lobes of the mouth triangular, acute, erect, the lower half of the tube attached to the ovary. Corolla inserted on the concave disk of the ovary, slightly exserted from the calyx, tubular, inflated towards the middle; lobes of the mouth short, lanceolate, reflexed; tube with rufous pubescence outside, glabrous within; style cylindric, glabrous, slightly exserted. Fruit unknown.

PERAK, at elevations of about 4,500 feet: King's Collector 8152; Wray 210; Scortechini 309.

3. VACCINIUM, Linn.

Shrubs, sometimes epiphytic. Leaves usually small, alternate, but sometimes in pseudo-whorls, from lanceolate to ovate, entire or serrate.

Flowers usually small, axillary or terminal, in racemes fascicles or corymbs rarely solitary, usually bracteate and bracteolate. Calyx-tube globose, its teeth 4 or 5, small. Corolla urceolate, tubular or ovoid, 5-lobed, pink white or greenish-yellow. Stamens 8 or 10, free, inserted near the base of the corolla-tube; anthers oblong, with two apical cylindric tubes dehiscing by terminal slits, sometimes appendiculate at the base (apical tubes very short in one or two species). Disk cushionshaped, convex, sometimes lobed. Ovary 4- or 5-celled, or falsely 8-10-celled; style cylindric; stigma simple; ovules few or several in each cell. Fruit a more or less globose berry, crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes, 5-celled or falsely 10-celled. Seeds small, 1 or more in each cell, ellipsoid, compressed; testa firm, smooth.-DISTRIB. Species about 140, in the Northern Hemisphere or on mountain ranges in the tropics.

Leaves broadly elliptic, ovate-rotund or oblanceolate, the apex broad, sometimes minutely apiculate but never acute, very coriaceous:

Leaves under 75 in. in length, elliptic or obovate-ellip-
tic; corolla 3 in. long, tapering to the mouth; a small
glabrous tree or bush..
Leaves under 1 in. in length, ovate or elliptic; corolla 2
to 25 in. long, the mouth wide, truncate; an epiphytic
shrub, glabrous except the scurfy branches..
Leaves elliptic, their apices sub-obtuse, the base truncate
or minutely cordate, 1 to 1·35 in. long; flowers enveloped
in large deciduous bracts

Leaves broadly oblanceolate or spathulate, much narrowed
to the base

..

Leaves obovate-elliptic, slightly narrowed to the apex but never acuminate, coriaceous; flowers 35 in. long, in axillary racemes

1. V. Scortechinii.

2. V. microphylla.

3. V. glabrescens.

4. V. viscifolium.

..

5. V. Teysmanni.

Leaves elliptic to elliptic-oblong, sub-acute acute or acumi

1. VACCINIUM SCORTECHINII, n. sp., King & Gamble. A small tree or large shrub; young branches rather thicker than a crow-quill, dark and much angled when dry, glabrous. Leaves small, coriaceous, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, the apex rounded, the base slightly cuneate, the edges much recurved; upper surface olivaceous-brown, shining when dry; the lower brown, dull, faintly reticulate; sparsely scaly; main-nerves a single pair, rarely 2 pairs, curving upwards, converging at their apices, faint on both surfaces; the midrib depressed on the upper surface, prominent on the lower; length 3 to 45 in.; breadth -25 to 35 in.; petiole very short. Flowers about 35 in. long, solitary, axillary, their pedicels less than 1 in. long, minutely bracteate at the base, pubescent like the outside of the calyx and corolla. Calyx campanulate, the 5 teeth triangular, acute, erect. Corolla about 3 in. long, cylindric, inflated below and tapering to the mouth; the lobes short, broad, blunt, erect or reflexed. Stamens 10, each with 2 apical truncate beaks shorter than themselves, but no basal processes; filaments longer than the anthers, hairy. Ovary with a flat top, 5-celled, each cell with several ovules. Style cylindric, nearly as long as the corolla, pubescent in its lower third, otherwise glabrous. Fruit globular, crowned by the inflexed calyx-lobes, tomentose, many-seeded; seeds not compressed. PERAK: Scortechini; Wray, at elevations of 6,000 and 6,700 feet, 888 and 356; King's Collector 8028.

By the fall of the leaves, in the axils of which they are produced, the flowers appear as if they were in racemes. This closely resembles V. buxifolium and V. coriaceum, Hook. fil., of which figures are given in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 891 and 892, but this has much narrower flowers and broader leaves than either.

2. VACCINIUM MICROPHYLLUM, Blume Bijdr. 851. Epiphytic on tall trees; a small much-branched shrub; young branches as thick as a crow-quill, with small black deciduous scurf. Leaves coriaceous, ovate or elliptic, the apex and base blunt, the former sometimes with a minute apiculus; upper surface bright olivaceous and shining when dry, the lower pale-brown and dull, both faintly reticulate when dry; mainnerves usually a single pair, curving upwards from the base of the midrib and passing to near the apex a little inside the edges, depressed like the midrib on the upper surface when dry, but very faint on the lower;

length 5 to 75 in.; breadth 3 to 5 in.; petioles about '05 in. long, hairy. Flowers 2 to 25 in. long, axillary, usually solitary, decurved; pedicels 05 in. long, or less. Calyx inferior, about 2 in. across, flat, deeply divided into 5 broadly triangular, sub-acute, spreading lobes. Corolla glabrous, widely cylindric-campanulate, deeply cut into 5 broadly triangular acute or sub-acute erect lobes. Stamens 10, from the base of the corolla; anthers oblong, each with an apical process shorter than itself but with no basal appendage; filaments shorter than the anthers, curved, expanded at the base. Ovary superior, broad with flat apex. Style cylindric, as long as the corolla; stigma capitate; ovules few in each cell. Fruit globular, surrounded by and adherent to the calyx, 2 in. in diam. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1063. Diplycosia microphylla, Beccari, Malesia 212; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 458.

MALACCA: Griffith (K.D.) 3484; Maingay (K.D.) 700; Lobb. PERAK, at elevations of 3,000 feet: Wray 470, 1105; Scortechini 1171; King's Collector 3660, 6390. KEDAH: Ridley 5528, 5529.-DISTRIB. Borneo, Celebes, Ternate.

3. VACCINIUM GLABRESCENS, n. sp., King & Gamble. Epiphytic ; young branches rather thicker than a crow-quill, dark-coloured when dry, minutely pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, the apex subobtuse, the base sub-truncate and minutely cordate; upper surface dark olivaceous-brown when dry, reticulate, smooth, shining; lower surface brown when dry, minutely pubescent like the petiole (glabrescent when old); main-nerves 3 or 4 pairs, pinnate, ascending, rather straight; length 1 to 1.35 in.; breadth 6 to 1 in.; petiole under 1 in. long. Racemes solitary, terminal, 3 or 4 times longer than the leaves, bearing at the base of each flower a large lanceolate pubescent deciduous bract 4 in. long and about 2 in. broad at the middle. Fruit sub-rotund or ellipsoid, baccate, softly and minutely pubescent, crowned by the inflexed triangular calyx-teeth, 2 in. long and 15 in. in diam., 5-celled, each cell with several angled seeds.

PERAK: Scortechini (without number).

Young

4. VACCINIUM VISCIFOLIUM, n. sp., King & Gamble. branches half as thick as a goose-quill, striate and pale-brown when dry. Leaves very coriaceous, broadly oblanceolate or spathulate, the apex very blunt, narrowed from below the middle to the short flattened petiole, the edges slightly recurved; upper surface olivaceous when dry, the lower bright brown, both glabrous; main-nerves 2 or 3 pairs, originating from the midrib near its base, ascending, little curved, very prominent like the midrib on the upper surface but faint on the lower; length 2 to 2.75 in.; breath ·8 to 1.25 in.; petioles about 1 in. Racemes terminal and axillary, often forming, from the fall of the leaves, pseudo

panicles several times longer than the leaves. Flowers not seen. Fruit on curved deflexed peduncles, 5 in. in length, globular, baccate, 2 in. in diam., crowned by the persistent disk and by the 5 minute triangular calyx-teeth, 10-celled, the cells with more than one small angled seed.

328.

PERAK: Scortechini 405; Wray, at an elevation of 6,700 feet,

VAR. minor, King & Gamble. Leaves only 12 to 1.6 in. in length, their 3 or 4 pairs of nerves not so much from the base of the midrib; racemes not much longer than the leaves; fruit only 15 in. in diam. ; pedicels under 2 in. long.

PERAK, at elevations of 5,000 feet: Scortechini 404; King's Collector 8020.

5. VACCINIUM TEYSMANNI, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1062. A mediumsized tree; young branches somewhat thinner than a goose-quill, darkcoloured and striate when dry. Leaves coriaceous, broadly obovate, often almost rotund-obovate or elliptic, rarely oblanceolate, the apex obtuse or rounded, rarely retuse or sub-acute, the base cuneate and merging in the broad, sometimes glandular petiole; both surfaces glabrous and faintly reticulate, upper olivaceous when dry, shining, the lower dark-brown, the midrib broad on both; main-nerves 4 to 6 pairs, curving upwards and anastomosing freely, more prominent on the upper than on the lower surface; length 2.5 to 3.5 in.; breadth 1.25 to 2.25 in.; petiole 2 to 4 in. long. Racemes slender, often longer than the leaves, axillary and extra-axillary, their rachises somewhat compressed and angled, often puberulous; pedicels slender, curved, minutely bracteolate or ebracteolate at the base, 15 to 2 in. long. Flowers 35 in. long; their pedicels 15 in. long, decurved or not, puberulous like the outside of the calyx. Calyx less than 1 in. long, campanulate, with 5 acutely triangular spreading teeth. Corolla white, puberulous, narrowly cylindric, tapering slightly to the mouth; lobes 5, very short, spreading or reflexed. Stamens 8 or 10, included or sub-exserted; anthers narrowly oblong, with 2 long apical spurs, but without basal appendages, shorter than the tapering hairy filaments. Ovary hemispheric, deeply grooved; style as long as the corolla, grooved; stigmas 5, very short, linear. Capsule unknown.

PERAK: On Gunong Bubu, at elevations of 4,500 feet, Scortechini 428, 443; Wray 1117, 3909; Curtis 3703.-DISTRIB. Java.

6. VACCINIUM BANCANUM, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 587. A small tree; young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, deciduously puberulous, pale and angled when dry. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, the apex sub-acute acute or acuminate, the base