420 The Philippine Journal of Science 1922 
A much-branched, rather rigid undershrub or shrub, 0.5, to 
3 m high, the branches and branchlets rugose from the numerous 
conspicuous pulvini of fallen leaves. The ultimate branchlets 
somewhat puberulent. Leaves very numerous, crowded, imbri- 
cate, rigid, narrowly lanceolate, sharply acuminate, 7 to 13 mm 
long, 1 to 2 mm wide, the upper surface smooth, olivaceous, 
shining, the lower surface glaucous, longitudinally striate, the 
petiole about 0.5 mm long. Flowers terminal, few to many, 
crowded, the spikelike inflorescence up to 1 cm long and 5 mm in 
diameter. Flowers white, the bracts broadly ovate, acute or 
somewhat obtuse, concave, the margins slightly pubescent, about 
2 mm long, the bracteoles similar.. Sepals 5, ovate, about 3 
mm long, acute, their margins slightly ciliate. Corolla tube 
rather slender, glabrous, about 2 mm long, the lobes 5, narrowly 
lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the tube, spreading, villous on 
the inside. Ovary subglobose, glabrous, the style about 1 mm 
long. Fruit globose, somewhat fleshy, white, pink or red when 
fresh, when dry rugose, 3 to 4 mm in diameter, the putamen 
. hard, 4-celled, the cells 1-seeded. 
Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, between Suyoc and Pauai, Mer- 
rill 4762, November 7, 1905, on exposed ridges, altitude about 
2,200 meters, For. Bur. 1443 Darling, January, 1909. NEGROS, 
Canlaon Volcano, Merrill Philip. Pl. 243 (type), April, 1910, a 
shrub up to 3 m high in the mossy thickets on exposed ridges 
but here not common, abundant in open places on the old crater 
ascending to an altitude of about 2,000 meters, often flowering 
when less than 0.5 m high. MINDANAO, Davao Subprovince, 
Mount Apo, Copeland 1040, 1419, April and October, 1904, De 
Vore & Hoover 313, 379, May, 1903, Elmer 11389. 
The specimens have been referred to the Bornean Styphelia 
suaveolens (Hook. f.) J. J. Sm., the identification having been 
based largely on published descriptions. The species is mani- 
festly allied to the Bornean form but abundant material from 
Mount Kinabalu, the type locality of the latter species, shows 
that the Philippine form differs in a number of details, notably 
in its much longer, differently shaped, sharply acuminate leaves 
and shorter petioles, and I am now of the opinion that it should 
be considered specifically distinct. Doctor Copeland notes that 
on Mount Apo this, with Vaccinium villarii Vid.=V. myrtoides 
Miq., is the dominant shrub on the upper 200 meters of the 
mountain, ascending to the summit at an altitude of 2,820 meters. 
