AKW riilUlTlNE rij.VXTS. IGl 
dark-reJdisli-brown^ glabrous. Leaves elliptical-oblong, i) to 16 cm long, 
4.5 to 8 cm wide, snbcoriaceons, shining, somewhat paler beneath, entirely 
glabrous above, beneath with numerous scattered small lepidote glands, 
the base acute, the apex usually broad, rounded, rai'ely s\ii)acute or ob- 
scurely acuminate; nerves al)out 10 on each side of the midrib, not 
prominent, somewhat ascending, reticulating; petioles stout, 1 to 1.5 cm 
long. Flowers orange-colored, 5 to 10 or more at the apices of the 
branches on a short stout rachis, the buds covered by numerous mem- 
branous, shining, deciduous^ elliptical bracts about 3 cm long, forming 
ellipsoid heads 3 to 3.5 cm long; pedicels glabrous, 2 to 3 cm long. Calyx 
disciform, 5-toothcd. Corolla glabrous, 4.5 to 5 cm long and wide, the 
tube about 2 cm long, somewhat broadened upwards, the lobc^ 2.5 cm long, 
2 cm wide, elliptical-obovate, rounded. Stamens 10 ; filaments 2.5 to 2.8 
cm long, more or less pilose below, glabrous above: anthers 5.5 to T jnui 
long. Ovary oblong, glabrous, 5 mm long, S-celled; style glabrous, 1 cm 
long; stigma capitate, 2 mm in diameter. Immature fruit glabrous. 
Mindanao, J.ake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 132, October, 1906, also 
without iuiml)ers, Kovember, 1906, ami Oetol)er, 1907. 
A .species characterized by its orange flowers, oblong-clliptical obtuse leaves, 
whicli are but slightly lepidote beneath, its glabrous ovaries, etc. 
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VACCINIUM Linn, 
Vaccinium lanaense Merrill sp. nov. 
Arbor vel arbuscula, glabra, epiphytica; foliis coriaceis, ovatis vel 
oblongo-ovatis, 6 ad 11 cm longis, acumhiatis, basi valde 5-7-nerviis; 
floribus axillaribus, fascicululis, parvis, corolla ca. 2 mm longa, cylindrica, 
glabra; fructibus ovoideis, 4-5 mm diam. 
An epiphytic shrub or tree, glabrous throughout, the branches light- 
gray or pale-brown, terete. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, rarely ovate- 
lanceolate, G to 7 cm long, 2 to fi cm wide, coriaceous, shining, apex 
rather strongly acuminate, base rounded to subacute, the margins entire, 
somewhat revolute; nerVes basal or subbasal, prominent^ 5, sometimes 
with an additional submarginal pair, the interior pair leaving the midrib 
shortly above the base and extending nearly to the apex of the leaf, the 
reticulations obscure; petioles stout, about 3 mm long. Flowers in axil- 
lary 2- to 5-flowered fascicles, the pedicels glabrous, 3 to 4 mm long, each 
subtended by a pair of small somewhat sheathing bracteoles. Calyx gla- 
brous, 2 to 2.5 mm long, the limb short, somewhat spreading, the lobes 
broadly orbicular-ovate, acute or acuminate, about 0.7 mm long. Corolla 
glabrous, cylindrical, short, 2.5 mm long or less, the teeth broadly ovate, 
about 1 mm long. Stamens 10; filaments 1.5 mm long or less, slightly 
hirsute, the anthers about 1.2 mm long. Style glabrous, deciduous, 2 mm 
long; stigma capitate. Emit ovoid, glal)rous, 4 to 5 mm in diameter. 
]\riNDANAO, Lake Lauao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens JfSl, March and June, 
1906, also without numbers, September-October, 1906, September, 1907, anff 
October, 1907. 
