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156 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VI,
the plant was originally described were not fully developed, so
I have given a fuller description of it,
83. PsYCHOTRiA CONDENSA, King & Gamble. Small
compact shrub, epiphytic, with close-set, coriaceous, lanceo-
. late-acuminate leaves with slightly narrowed base, i inch long
by half an inch wide, glabrous, shining above, with the nerves
almost invisible ; petiole -^q inch long. Flowers in short dense
cymes, shorter than the leaves, ^^ inch long. Calyx shallow,
with 5 very short teeth, glabrous. Corolla thick, tubular,
scurfy outside, the lobes oblong-obtuse, not half as long as the
tube, inside white, woolly round the stamens, glabrous above
and below. Stamens with short filaments, shorter than the
oblong-obtuse, rather large anthers. Style long, slender,
glabrous, bifid at the tip. Fruit nearly a quarter of an inch
long, oblong, very obscurely ribbed.
On Gunong Tahan to the summit, 7,186 feet elevation.
Distribution. Perak and Gunong Berumbun near Telom.
A single flowering specimen also got on the Padang differs
in the thinner leaves in remoter pairs and the flowers just twice
as large. A very little-known plant, of which the flowers have
never been adequately described.
CAMPANULACE^.
*84. Pentaphragma grandis, Ridl. op. cit. p. 312.
Abundant from Wray's Camp to the Padang in wet shady
spots. Endemic. The petals are oblong and retuse, yellowish
white ; the tube turns purplish within before withering, as it
does in P. Ridleyi, King.
VACCINIACEiE.
85. Yxcci'^iuu ScoKYECumu, King & Gamble. A shrub
with rose-pink flowers. On the ridge by Bukit Bandera and
on the top of Gunong Tahan, altitude 7,186 feet. It occurs
also in Perak at high elevations. Vaccinium buxifolium, Hook,
fil., of Kinabalu, is closely allied to this plant; but the leaves
of V. Scortechinii are rounder and distinctly gland-dotted
beneath, and the flowers are pubescent.
*86. Vaccinium Teysmanni, Miq. ; Ridl. op. cit. p. 313.
A common shrub on the Padang, in fruit only.
Distribution. Perak and Java.
87. Vaccinium Kunstleri, King & Gamble. A shrub in
fruit, Gunong Tahan. Not epiphytic here.
Distribution. Perak.
*88. Vaccinium pubicarpum, Ridl. op. cit. p. 313. A
large branching shrub or treelet, very common on the streambanks
in the woods of the Padang. Also collected on K'luang
Terbang by Barnes.
*89. Vaccinium longibracteatum, Ridl. op. cit. p. 313;
antea, p. 49. A large bush common on the ridges of the track
and the Padang. The original specimens were only in fruit,
but I got flowers on this occasion and also received a flowering
specimen from Gunong Ulu Kali, Selangor.