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lobis lanceolatis, tenuiter acuminatis, subpatulis, circiter 1.5 mm 

 longis. 



A shrub 2 to 3 m high, entirely glabrous except the top of the 

 ovary, the filaments, and the inside of the corollas. Branches 

 terete, reddish-brown to grayish-brown, crowded, the internodes 

 short. Leaves numerous, coriaceous, oblong-ovate to oblong- 

 lanceolate, 2 to 5 cm long, 8 to 16 mm wide, brownish-olivaceous 

 when dry, not glandular, shining, the lower surface slightly 

 paler than the upper, narrowed below to the acute base and above 

 to the rather slenderly acuminate apex, the margins cartilagi- 

 nous, distantly serrulate; lateral nerves about 5 on each side 

 of the midrib, slender, distinct on the lower surface, curved- 

 ascending, anastomosing, the reticulations distinct ; petioles about 

 3 mm long. Racemes in the uppermost axils, about 2 cm long, 

 6- to 10-flowered, the pedicels spreading or recurved, about 3 

 mm long, the minute bracteoles oblong-ovate, acuminate, about 

 1 mm long. Calyx-tube turbinate, black or somewhat glaucous 

 when dry, the lobes lanceolate, slenderly acuminate, about 1.5 

 mm long, somewhat spreading. Corolla white, glabrous exter- 

 nally, slightly pubescent inside, subcylindric, slightly narrowed 

 above, about 6 mm long and 2 mm in diameter, the lobes sub- 

 ovate, obtuse, 0.8 mm long, recurved. Top of the ovary hirsute. 

 Stamens 10; filaments thickened and villous below, filiform and 

 glabrous above, about 3.5 mm long; anthers slender, narrow, 2 

 to 2.8 mm long, the spurs 1.2 to 2 mm long. Style glabrous, 

 rather stout, 6 mm long. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10705, 

 (type), Levine 1855, August 25, 1917, on open grassy slopes 600 to 900 

 meters, rare. 



This species somewhat resembles Vaccinium carlesii Dunn, but is en- 

 tirely different in its floral characters. It is the third species of the genus 

 to be found in Kwangtung Province, the other two, Vaccinium bracteatum 

 Thunb. and V. iteophyllum Hance, being common on Loh Fau Mountain. 

 It is dedicated to Miss A. Hancock, of the New Zealand Presbyterian Mis- 

 sion at Canton, in commemoration of her interest in the flora of Kwangtung 

 Province, and in appreciation of her coolness in extricating herself, Mr. 

 Levine, and the author in a serious encounter with Chinese robbers on Loh 

 Fau Mountain on August 22, 1917. 



RHODODENDRON Linnaeus 



~n^ RHODODENDRON LEVINEI sp. nov. 



Arbor 3 ad 4 m alta, ramulis et petiolis et foliis junioribus 

 pilis longis tenuibus ferrugineis ornatis; foliis subcoriaceis, 

 oblongo-ellipticis ad ellipticis, usque ad 10 cm longis, apice late 

 rotundatis, interdum brevissime apiculatis, basi acutis ad rotun- 

 datis, margine revolutis, supra brunneo-olivaceis, subtus brun- 



