ERICACEAE. — VACCINIUM 561 
October 1910 (No. 4320; shrub 60-75 em. tall, fruit purple-black); 
without locality, alt. 2600 m., July 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 3914). 
This species is very common as an epiphyte on old trees, and is also frequently 
found growing on humus-clad rocks and cliffs. In our specimens the flowers are 
rose-pink, the leaves are cuneate at the base and the plants grow to a larger size 
than those described by Franchet. 
In this subgenus also belongs the following undescribed species: 
Vaccinium viburnoides Rehder & Wilson, n. sp. 
Frutex 30-60 cm. altus ramis crassiusculis; ramuli hornotini leviter angulati, 
initio sparse puberuli, mox glabri, annotini flavido-cinerei, vetustiores brunneo- 
grisei, lenticellati. Folia coriacea, ovalia v. obovata v. elliptica, acutiuscula v. 
rotundata, basi late cuneata, crenato-serrulata dentibus adpressis mucrone calloso 
incurvo, saepe infra medium integra, 3.5—5.5 longa et 2-3 cm. lata, supra laete viridia, 
nitentia rugulosa, ad costam mediam puberula, subtus pallidiora, glabra, nervis 
utrinsecus 5-6, ut costa supra impressis subtus elevatis; petioli crassi, 3-4 mm. 
longi, interdum puberuli. Racemi terminales et axillares in apice ramulorum con- 
gesti, breves, 5-8-flori; rhachis crassiuscula, puberula, 8-12 mm. longa; bracteae 
deciduae, membranaceae coloratae, late ovales v. ovatae 7-8 mm. longae, acutae 
V. obtusae, ciliolatae; bracteolae similes, sed minores, deciduae; pedicelli 3-5 mm. 
longi, glabri ; calyx glaber tubo hemisphaerico, lobis latissimis rotundatis circiter 
0.7 mm. longis ciliolatis; corolla urceolata, circiter 6 mm. longa, salmoneo-rosea, 
extus intusque glabra, lobis minutis recurvis intus puberulis; stamina corolla 
breviora, filamentis basi dilatatis pilosis, antheris 2.5 mm. longis dorso breviter 
bicalearatis ; stylus stamina superans, inclusus, glaber, rectus, cylindricus, stigmate 
leviter capitato. Fructus maturus desideratur. 
3 pte Szech'uan: without precise locality, July 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 
This is a very distinct species and is not closely related to any Chinese or Indian 
Species. Its nearest relative is perhaps the variable Vaccinium Leschenaultii 
Wight Which, however, is a much taller growing plant with less coriaceous leaves, 
thinner branches, longer racemes, shorter pedicels, and rather differently shaped 
flowers and calyx-teeth. 
Vaccinium viburnoides is a very rare plant, having been collected only once. 
Also the recently described Vaccinium Wardii Adamson (in Jour. Bot. LI. 130 
[1913]) belongs according to its author in this subgenus, but we suspect that it is 
not a Vaccinium at all, but identical with or very near to Gaultheria Veitchiana 
Craib with which the rather unsatisfactory description fairly well agrees. 
Subgen. EUVACCINIUM A. Gray. 
Vaccinium Henryi Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 15 (1889). — 
Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 516 (1900). 
Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, woods, alt. 1000-1600 m., 
September 1907 (No. 2703; bush 1-3 m. tall, fruit black); without 
locality, July 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 1491); without locality, A. 
Henry (Nos. 4826, 6829, 6623, 5911, 4703, 7937). 
This plant is fairly common in oak woods in western Hupeh. 
