4 -- wee Ss 
20, 4 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVII 419 
ate, the base acute to rounded and usually 5-nerved, sometimes 
with an additional pair of slender marginal nerves, the inner 
nerves leaving the midrib 4 to 8 mm above the base, the reticula- 
tions rather lax; petioles 4 to 8 mm long, rather stout. 
Flowers fascicled in the uppermost axils, the young buds entire- 
ly inclosed by numerous, imbricate, brown, sparingly pubescent, 
concave bracts forming a cylindric head about 1 cm in diameter, 
some of the bracts subpersistent, others deciduous. Pedicels 
up to 10mm long. Calyx glabrous, about 3.5 mm long, shallowly 
5-lobed, the lobes broadly ovate, shortly and abruptly acuminate. 
Corolla red, 8 to 10 mm long, glabrous, somewhat widened 
upward, the lobes ovate, about 3 mm long. Stamens 10, gla- 
brous, dimorphous, the larger ones with filaments and anthers 
about 4 mm long, the shorter ones with filaments 3 mm long 
and anthers about 2 mm long. Styles 12 mm long, glabrous. 
Fruits unknown. 
MINDANAO, Misamis Province, Mount Malindang, For. Bur. 
4708 Mearns & Hutchinson, May, 1906. In the mossy forest, 
altitude about 1,700 meters. The same species is apparently « 
represented by Bur. Sci. 38537 Ramos & Edaio from Mount Lipa, 
Bukidnon Subprovince, Mindanao, July, 1920. i 
Both specimens were originally identified as Vaccinium apoa- 
num Merr.—Dimorphanthera apoana Schltr. but, like that 
species, are true representatives of the genus Dimorphanthera, 
differing from the latter especially in the glabrous flowers. It 
is the second species of the genus to be found in the Philippines, 
Dimorphanthera being now known otherwise only from New 
Guinea and Amboina, with twenty-seven species in New Guinea 
and one in Amboina. 
EPACRIDACEAE 
STYPHELIA Smith 
? 
STYPHELIA PHILIPPINENSIS sp. nov. 
Frutex vel suffrutex 0.5 ad 3 m altus, ramis ramulisque nu- 
merosis, valde rugosis, ramulis puberulis ; foliis numerosis, con- 
fertis, rigidis, acute acuminatis, anguste lanceolatis, 7 ad 13 
mm longis, 1 ad 2 mm latis, brevissime petiolatis, supra olivaceis, 
subtus glaucis; floribus terminalibus, bracteis bractiolisque late 
ovatis, subacutis, 2 mm longis; sepalis 5, ovatis, 3 mm longis, 
corollae lobis intus villosis; fructibus in siccitate.rugosis, 3 ad 
4 mm diametro, putamine 4-loculare. 
