PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 323 
anthers 4 to 4.5 mm long, the terminal tubes 2 mm long, opening 
by pores. Style 12 mm long, pubescent. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Sax River Mountains, back of San 
Ramon, Merrill 8087, November 30, 1911, altitude about 900 m. 
A species closely allied to Vaccinium barandanum Vidal, of Luzon and 
i Mindoro {V. hutchinso7iii Merr.), which it closely resembles, differing in 
its somewhat smaller flowers, shorter petioles, its epiphytic habit, and its 
pubescent, not glabrous styles, 
VACCINIUM LOHERI sp. nov. 
Frutex parvus, epiphyticus, glaber; foliis crasse coriaceis, 
ellipticis, in siccitate pallidis, nitidis, 1.5 ad 2 cm longis, integris, 
apice rotundatis, basi obscure triplinerviis, acutis, 2-glandulosis, 
petiolo vix 2 mm longo; floribus solitariis, axillaribus, pedicollatis. 
A small, epiphytic, glabrous shrub, the branches terete, grayish, 
the younger ones reddish-brown, wrinkled when dry. Leaves 
numerous, crowded, elliptic, 1.5 to 2 cm long, thickly coriaceous, 
when dry rather pale and shining, the apex rounded, the base 
acute, with two prominent glands near the juncture with the 
petiole, the margins thickened, somewhat recurved, base obscurely 
3-plinerved, the lateral nerves nearly as prominent as the midrib, 
nearly or quite reaching the apex, the reticulations obsolete or 
nearly so; petioles 1 to 2 mm long. Flowers white, according 
to the collector (corolla not seen). Pedicles solitary, axillary, 
slender, about 6 mm long, somewhat curved, the basal bracteoles 
ovate, about 0.5 mm long. Calyx 2 mm long, broadly urceolate, 
the tube ovoid, globose, about 1.5 mm in diameter, the limb 
somewhat spreading, 5-toothed, the teeth broadly triangular- 
ovate, acute or slightly acuminate, 0.5 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Montalban; that is, in the mounUins back of 
Montalban, Loher 6187, April 18, 1905. 
Although my specimen is imperfect, the corolla being lacking, I have not 
hesitated to describe this distinct form. It is well characterized by its 
small, crowded, entire, obtuse, obscurely nerved leaves which are rounded at 
the apex, acute and 2-glanduIar at the base, and by its solitary, axillary 
flowers. Among the Philippine species it is most closely allied to Vacei- 
nium microphyllum Blume (V. mindorense Rendle), but is very different 
from that species. 
MYRSINACEAE. 
ARDISIA Sw. 
ARDISIA CAGAYANENSIS sp. nov. § Acrardisia, 
Species A. scabridae Mez affinis, differt foliis majoribus, usque 
ad 16 cm longis, obscure crenato-dentatis, nervis magis num- 
erosis, 25 ad 30 utrinque. 
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