Of 2250 metres, and refer to the plant as a shrub with angled branches, the leaves obovate, reticulate above, white beneath, the berries blue-black, globose, secund, ascending. The flowers remained unknown until 1849, when Hooker obtained good specimens in Sikkim at 2700-3000 metres altitude, in the vicinity of Lamteng and Zemu Samdong on the Lachen River on 30 May and 6 July respectively, and also at La- choong (Lachung) on 27 August. Hooker noted the plant as a shrub of 4 ft., with leaves "milky white beneath and flowers "white and tinged with pink." " From Griffith's and Hooker's material the species was described by C. B. Clarke in the Flora of British India as Vaccinium glauco-album. This name was attributed_by Clarke to "Hook. f. ms.", but none of Hooker's sheets at Kew or at the British Museum bears any such name in Hooker's writing. What Hooker has written is "V. glau. Mss." in pencil on one of the Kew specimens, and "V. glaucum Hook. f. & Thoms." in ink on one of the specimens at the British Museum. One may suppose that Hooker, finding, or possibly being informed by Clarke, that there already existed an earlier V. glaucum of Lamarck, suggested to Clarke the alteration to V. glauco-album. The species was later collected by Smith and Cave in the Zemu valley, N.W. Sikkim, alt. 2400 to 2700 metres, during * Field no. 2266; Itin. no. 762; Kew distrib. no. 3478.

Thibaudia [sp.] Griffith