2. GAULTHERIA LEUCOCARPA, Blume Bijdr. 856. A slender climber; young branches as thick as a crow-quill, smooth, glabrous, pale-brown when dry. Leaves thinly coriaceous, broadly ovate, shortly rather abruptly and sharply caudate-acuminate, the base broad, emarginate or sub-cordate; edges minutely crenate-serrate; upper surface olivaceousbrown when dry, much and boldly reticulate, the nerves minutely hairy; lower surface pale-brown, reticulate, glabrous; main-nerves 2 to 4 pairs, much curved, ascending, distinct on both surfaces; length 2 to 4 in.; breadth 1 to 2 in.; petioles 15 to 2 in. long. Racemes slightly supra-axillary, shorter than the leaves, their rachises compressed, glabrous or pubescent; flower-pedicels rather less than 1 in. long in flower, twice as long in fruit, each with a small ovate concave bract at its base. Flowers 3 in. long; their pedicels rather more than 1 in. long, deflexed, puberulous, ebracteolate. Calyx less than 1 in. long, puberulous, campanulate, with 5 small spreading sub-acute triangular lobes. Corolla sub-cylindric, widest at the base and gradually tapering to the mouth, teeth of the mouth very short, blunt, erect. Stamens 10; anthers linear, beaked, shorter than the densely hairy tapering filaments. Ovary inferior, depressed-hemispheric, crowned by a thick, very concave, marginally grooved disk; style cylindric, tapering to the apex, glabrous. Fruit closely adnate to the calyx-tube, 5-celled, manyseeded. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1056; Beccari Malesia, I. 213. PERAK, at elevations of 5,000 to 6,700 feet: Wray 360, 1573, 4101; Scortechini 1348; King's Collector 8025.-DISTRIB. Java, Sumatra. 2. DIPLYCOSIA, Blume. Epiphytic shrubs, glabrous or setose, evergreen. Leaves coriaceous, alternate, entire or ciliate-serrate. Flowers small, axillary, solitary, on pedicels bracteolate at the base. Calyx with 5 teeth or lobes, free or half superior, accrescent in fruit, with 2 basal bracteoles connate into a calyculus. Corolla campanulate or urceolate, with 5 slightly imbricate recurved lobes. Stamens 10, as long as the corolla, and inserted at its base, quite included or with the tips of the anthers exserted; anthers elongate, oblong, produced at the apex into two straight valvularlydehiscing tubes, but without dorsal appendages. Disk cupular, 10lobed. Ovary 5-celled; style filiform; stigma simple; ovules in the cells numerous, attached to axile placentas. Fruit superior or halfsuperior, included in the succulent accrescent calyx, 2-celled, dehiscing by 5 valves, many-seeded. Seeds minute, cuneate; testa lax, reticulate; albumen fleshy; embryo axile, cylindric.-DISTRIB. Species about 14, all Indian or Malayan. A small glabrous 1. DIPLYCOSIA LATIFOLIA, Blume Bijdr. 858. epiphytic shrub; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, pale and angled when dry. Leaves thickly coriaceous, elliptic, the apex shortly and obtusely acuminate, the base cuneate or somewhat rounded, the edges recurved; both surfaces pale yellowish-brown when dry, the upper shining, the lower dull; the midrib bold, much raised on the lower surface, slightly depressed on the upper; main-nerves 2 or 3 pairs, curving upwards, the lower pair usually longer than the others, none of them very prominent on either surface, but more so on the lower than on the upper, reticulations obsolete; length 3 to 5 in.; breadth 1.35 to 3 in.; petioles 2 to 3 in. long. Flowers 2 in. long, in axillary fascicles of 3 or 4; their pedicels slender, 1 to 15 in. long, inserted 3 or 4 together on minute tubercles surrounded by several small bracts. Calyx cupular, 1 in. across, with 5 broad, spreading, obtuse, ciliolate lobes. Corolla 25 in. long, narrowly campanulate, contracted into a short tube at the base, the limb deeply divided into 5 ovate sub-acute lobes, closely embracing the ovary. Stamens 10, included; anthers narrowly oblong, each with two short apical truncate beaks but no basal processes; the filaments slender in their upper halves, the lower halves dilated and cohering into a tube. Ovary 5-celled, the apex broad, concave; style cylindric, about as long as the corolla; stigma small, capitate. Fruit 5-celled; seeds numerous, elongate, black, closely enveloped by the persistent corolla. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1055. PERAK, at elevations of 6,700 feet: Wray 364, 909, 2204; Scortechini 339; King's Collector 6797, 8023. SELANGOR: Ridley 7556.— DISTRIB. Java. 2. DIPLYCOSIA HETEROPHYLLA, Blume Bijdr. 858. A shrub; young branches as thick as a crow-quill, coarsely rusty-pilose at first, afterwards sub-glabrous, when dry pale and angled. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic oblong-elliptic or lanceolate, acute or acuminate at apex and base, the edges recurved; both surfaces olivaceous-brown when dry, the upper sub-reticulate and shining, the lower dull and not reticulate ; main-nerves 1 pair following the edge from base to apex, distinct and depressed like the midrib on the upper surface, indistinct on the lower; length 2 to 4 in.; breadth 1 to 2 in.; petiole rather more than 2 in. long. Flowers axillary, fascicled, rarely solitary, about 15 in. long, bearing under the calyx 2 broadly reniform, acute, spreading concave bracts. 2. GAULTHERIA LEUCOCARPA, Blume Bijdr. 856. A slender climber; young branches as thick as a crow-quill, smooth, glabrous, pale-brown when dry. Leaves thinly coriaceous, broadly ovate, shortly rather abruptly and sharply caudate-acuminate, the base broad, emarginate or sub-cordate; edges minutely crenate-serrate; upper surface olivaceousbrown when dry, much and boldly reticulate, the nerves minutely hairy; lower surface pale-brown, reticulate, glabrous; main-nerves 2 to 4 pairs, much curved, ascending, distinct on both surfaces; length 2 to 4 in.; breadth 1 to 2 in.; petioles 15 to 2 in. long. Racemes slightly supra-axillary, shorter than the leaves, their rachises compressed, glabrous or pubescent; flower-pedicels rather less than 1 in. long in flower, twice as long in fruit, each with a small ovate concave bract at its base. Flowers 3 in. long; their pedicels rather more than 1 in. long, deflexed, puberulous, ebracteolate. Calyx less than 1 in. long, puberulous, campanulate, with 5 small spreading sub-acute triangular lobes. Corolla sub-cylindric, widest at the base and gradually tapering to the mouth, teeth of the mouth very short, blunt, erect. Stamens 10; anthers linear, beaked, shorter than the densely hairy tapering filaments. Ovary inferior, depressed-hemispheric, crowned by a thick, very concave, marginally grooved disk; style cylindric, tapering to the apex, glabrous. Fruit closely adnate to the calyx-tube, 5-celled, manyseeded. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1056; Beccari Malesia, I. 213. PERAK, at elevations of 5,000 to 6,700 feet: Wray 360, 1573, 4101; Scortechini 1348; King's Collector 8025.-DISTRIB. Java, Sumatra. 2. DIPLYCOSIA, Blume. Epiphytic shrubs, glabrous or setose, evergreen. Leaves coriaceous, alternate, entire or ciliate-serrate. Flowers small, axillary, solitary, on pedicels bracteolate at the base. Calyx with 5 teeth or lobes, free or half superior, accrescent in fruit, with 2 basal bracteoles connate into a calyculus. Corolla campanulate or urceolate, with 5 slightly imbricate recurved lobes. Stamens 10, as long as the corolla, and inserted at its base, quite included or with the tips of the anthers exserted; anthers elongate, oblong, produced at the apex into two straight valvularlydehiscing tubes, but without dorsal appendages. Disk cupular, 10lobed. Ovary 5-celled; style filiform; stigma simple; ovules in the cells numerous, attached to axile placentas. Fruit superior or halfsuperior, included in the succulent accrescent calyx, 2-celled, dehiscing by 5 valves, many-seeded. Seeds minute, cuneate; testa lax, reticulate; albumen fleshy; embryo axile, cylindric.-DISTRIB. Species about 14, all Indian or Malayan. winged, albuminous; testa loose.-DISTRIB. Species 10; Himalaya and the mountains of Burma and of the Malayan Peninsula. PIERIS OVALIFOLIA, D. Don in Edinb. Phil. Journ. XVII. (1834) 159. A tree; young branches whitish-puberulous at first, afterwards black and glabrous, about a third as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate, shortly acuminate, the base broad and rounded, the edges very slightly recurved; upper surface blackish-brown when dry, glabrous, the lower of a paler brown, minutely reticulate, puberulous on the midrib and nerves; main-nerves 12 to 15 pairs, spreading, curving slightly upwards, sharply prominent on the lower surface, indistinct on the upper; length 4 to 5.25 in.; breadth 2 to 2.75 in.; petiole 25 to 3 in. long, puberulous. Racemes simple, axillary, 4 to 10 in. long, sometimes by suppression of the leaves forming a terminal false panicle, more or less pubescent; bracts 2 in. long, linear or lanceolate. Calyx-teeth connate at the base. Corolla narrowly ovoid, white. Capsule globose, glabrous, 2 in. in diam. Seeds small, linearoblong. DC. Prod. VII. 599; Loudon, Arb. Brit. 570, fig. 1070; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 460. Andromeda ovalifolia, Wall. Cat. 763, and in Asiat. Research, XIII. 391 (with fig.); Don Prod. 148; Wight Ic. t. 1199; Brandis For. Flora, 280; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 1877, Pt. II. 216, For. Fl. Burm. II. 192. A. elliptica, Sieb. & Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. II. 126. Thibaudia, Griff. Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 514. PERAK, at an elevation of 5,000 feet: Wray 1522.-DISTRIB. Himalaya up to 8,000 ft.; Khasia Hills; Burma; Japan. 4. RHODODENDRON, Linn. Shrubs or trees, often aromatic often scaly. Leaves coriaceous, entire, alternate, rarely sub-opposite or in false whorls, often clustered near the ends of the branches. Flowers in terminal fascicles or pseudocorymbs, rarely solitary or axillary; bracts broad, usually caducous, bracteoles linear. Calyx persistent, 5-lobed, rarely cupular, sometimes small or obsolete. Corolla campanulate, salver-shaped or funnel-shaped, the tube long or short, the limb 5- to 10-lobed. Stamens usually 10 but sometimes 5 or 18; anthers oblong, dehiscing by terminal pores. Ovary 5- to 20-celled; style long or short, filiform; stigma capitate; ovules numerous in each cell. Capsule short or elongate, always woody, 5- to 20-celled, septicidally dehiscent, the valves separating from the placentas from above downwards. Seeds numerous, ellipsoid, albuminous, the testa often crested or tailed at one end or at both. -DISTRIB. Species about 160, in mountainous parts of Europe, Asia, and North America. Corolla widely campanulate, tubular only at the base :- Lower surfaces of leaves glaucous, the nerves and reticula- Leaves obovate, 6 to 8 in., and rarely as much as 1 in. long:- Leaves elliptic to elliptic-rotund, from 1.25 to 2 in. long Corolla salver-shaped, the tube much longer than the limb:Tube of corolla from 1.25 to 1.6 in. long, and about 15 in. in diam. from base to apex; leaves sub-sessile, whorled, sparsely scaly or glabrous .. 1. R. javanicum. 2. R. Wrayi. 3. R. pauciflorum. 4. R. perakense. 5. R. Scortechinii. 6. R. jasminiflorum. Tube of corolla 2 in. long, 25 in. wide near the base, widening to 4 in. or more near the mouth; petioles 35 to 5 in. long 7. R. longiflorum. Tube of corolla 6 in. long and about 2 in. in diam. ; petioles ⚫4 to 6 in. long 8. R. malayanum. 9. R. dubium. 1. RHODODENDRON JAVANICUM, Benn. Pl. Jav. Rar. p. 85, t. 19. An epiphytic shrub, 3 to 8 feet long; all parts glabrous, esquamose; young branches rather thinner than a goose-quill. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, tapering to the acute apex and base; both surfaces brown when dry (the lower rather the lighter), shining, the midrib very prominent; main-nerves about 8 or 10 pairs, interarching rather far from the edge, faint on the upper surface, obsolete on the lower, the intermediate nerves almost as prominent; length 3.5 to 5.5 in.; breadth 1.25 to 2 in.; petioles 3 to 75 in. long. Umbels terminal, 5- to 7-flowered, enveloped in bud in broadly ovate apiculate bracts; pedicels 5 to 1.5 in.; bracteoles linear. Calyx cupular, less than 1 in. deep, the mouth wavy. Corolla red, widely campanulate, 1.25 to 1.5 in. long; the tube widely funnel-shaped, cylindric at the base; the limb 1.25 to 1.5 in. wide, with 5 large, broad, blunt spreading lobes. Stamens 10, shorter than the corolla-limb; the filaments slender; the anthers oblong. Ovary glabrous or slightly scaly (hairy in var. Teysmanni); style shorter than the stamens, clavate, hemispheric. Capsule narrowly cylindric, 1 to 1.5 in. long, and only 25 in. in diam., glabrous, slightly ridged, crowned by the whole or part of the style. DC. Prod. VII. 721; Bot. Mag. t. 4366; Fl. des Serres (1847), t. 293; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1057; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I. 42, t. 1в; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 463. Vireya javanica, Blume Bijdr. II. 854. MALAY PENINSULA: Lobb and others. PENANG: Ridley 129. |