ERICACEAE. — VACCINIUM 557 
two varieties, one with bright red and more juicy fruit . . . The two kinds are 
exactly alike in foliage.” 
Macoun, Cat. Canad. Pl. I. 294 (1883): * Both Hooker and Gray state that 
the berries of this species are black, on the contrary, those on specimens obtained 
on Anticosti and the Rocky Mountains are bright red." 
S ot Brown, Alp. Fl. Canad. Rocky Mts. 215 (1907): “berry bright 
scarlet. 
The plant of eastern North America has bluish black fruit like that of Europe. 
There seems to be also a difference in foliage: the leaves of the red-fruited variety, 
both in the Asiatic and American specimens, are thinner and larger, while those 
of the typical form are smaller and of firmer texture. 
VACCINIUM L. 
Subgen. EPIGYNIUM Drude. 
Vaccinium Donianum Wight, Icon. t. 1191 (1850). — Clarke in 
Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. III. 453 (1882). 
Vaccinium affine Wight, Icon. IV. t. 1190 (1850). 
Epigynium affine Klotzsch in Linnaea, XXIV. 50 (1851). 
Epigynium Donianum Klotzsch (l. c.) 51. 
Vaccinium mandarinorum Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 516 (1900). 
Kiangsi: Kuling, side of streams and in thickets, alt. 1300 m., July 
1907 (Nos. 1700, 1701, 1704; shrubs 1-2 m. tall). Western Hupeh: 
Patung Hsien, woods, alt. 1300-1600 m., August 1907 (No. 2705; 
bush 2.5-4 m. tall, flowers white); Changyang Hsien, woods, alt. 1300 
m., July 1907 (No. 2706; bush 1.5-2 m. tall, lowers white); Patung 
Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1300-1600 m., June 1907 (No. 2710; bush 2-3 
m. tall, flowers white); same locality, June 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 
1010); without locality, A. Henry (Nos. 3918, 4526, 6129, 7660 in 
Part, and 58075, type of V. mandarinorum Diels). Western 
Szech'uan: Mt. Omei, May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 5134). 
Yunnan: Szemao, mountains, A. Henry (Nos,11626, 11917, 12745). 
This is an exceedingly variable plant, common in woodlands and thickets. The 
leaves vary in size and shape, and the shoots and racemes from glabrous to pu- 
bescent; the pedicels vary in length from 2-10 mm. and are glabrous or pubescent; 
in No. 1010 the calyx is also sparsely pubescent. With the large series of specimens 
Tore us we cannot distinguish between the common Chinese and Indian forms. 
Diele! type of V. mandarinorum (Henry No. 5807") seems to us identical with 
Wight's , Which constitutes the type of V. Donianum; probably comparisons 
"iik made between some of the Hookerian specimens and not with the type 
Clarke (Hooker f. Fl. Brit. Ind. III. 453) cites Agapetes Sprengelii G. Don. 
(Gen. Syst. ITI. 862 [1834]) as a synonym of V. Donianum Wight, and the same view 
‘Staken in the Index Kewensis. In this case “Sprengelii” would be the oldest 
