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specific name. Don’s description, however, does not agree very well with Wight’s 
figure. As a specific name Sprengelii is somewhat involved. There is a Vac- 
cinium Sprengelii Wallich, Cat. No. 6296 which is referred to Agapetes obovata by 
Clarke and the Index Kewensis. Also a Vaccinium Sprengelii Hort. which is re- 
ferred to V. Myrsinitis in the Index Kewensis. As there would appear to be some 
doubt, if Don's Agapetes Sprengelii is identical with Wight’s Vaccinium Donianum, 
and as the name Sprengelii is connected with two other plants of this group it ap- 
pears to us best to retain Wight’s name for the species as was done by Clarke 
(l. c.) and in the Index Ki is. 
Vaccinium Donianum, var. laetum Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 
Vaccinium laetum Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 516 (1900). 
Western Szech’uan: Kiating Fu, thickets, alt. 300 m., May 1908 
(No. 2707; bush 2-3 m., flowers white); without precise locality, 
banks of Yangtsze river, May 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 3918); without 
locality, alt. 1500 m., May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3918*). 
The rather small, sharply serrate leaves, short racemes and twiggy branches 
distinguish this variety which, however, is very near some of the extreme forms 
of the type. It is a low-level and a rather uncommon plant. 
Vaccinium Carlesii Dunn resembles this variety but has a much smaller and a 
differently shaped corolla. 
Vaccinium iteophyllum Hance in Ann. Sci. Nat. sér. 4, XVIII. 223 
(1862). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 15 (1889). — Dunn & 
Tutcher in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. add. ser. X. 153 (Fl. Kwangtung 
& Hongkong) (1912). 
Fokien: without locality, 1905, Dunn's Exped. (Herb. Bot. Gard. 
Hongkong, No. 2877). Yunnan: Szemao, forests, alt. 1600 m., 
A, Henry (Nos. 11648, 116482). 
In Henry's specimens the leaves are only slightly and irregularly serrate. 
Vaccinium iteophyllum, var. fragrans Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 
A typo recedit foliis oblanceolatis v. rarius lanceolatis, 6-10 em. 
longis et 2.5-3.5 em. latis leviter et remote serrulatis subtus sparsius 
pubescentibus demum glabrescentibus, inflorescentia sparsius pu- 
bescente, antheris aristatis. 
Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, alt. 1000-1300 m., rare, 
June 4, 1907 (No. 2704; bush 2.5 m. tall, flowers snow-white, fragrant). 
The larger, very slightly toothed leaves and aristate anthers distinguish this 
variety. 
Vaccinium bracteatum Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 156 (1784). — De Can- 
dolle, Prodr. VII. 573 (1839). — Siebold & Zuccarini in Abh. Akad. 
