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VACCINIUM Linn. 



Vaccinium microphyllum Blume. Bijdr. (1826) 861; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 

 (1856) 1003. 



.Mindanao. District of Davao, Mount Apo (1037, 1417 Gopeland) April, October. 

 1904. A terrestrial shrub on the wind-swept summit 2.000 to 3.000 m., the shoots 

 not ascending more than 10 em. from the ground except in the more sheltered 

 places. 



Vaccinium microphyllum Blume, was described from a specimen in Reinwardt's 

 herbarium from the mountains of Celebes, the original description being very 

 short, but applying closely to the specimens cited above. A specimen of No. 1417 

 Copeland was sent to Dr. Treub, director of the Botanical Garden at Buitenzorg, 

 • lava, for verification of the above identification. Dr. Valeton, who examined 

 the material, states that there is no authentic specimen of Vaccinium microphyllum 

 in the herbarium at Buitenzorg. but that there is a sterile specimen collected by 

 Teysmann in Termite and identified as V. microphyllum by SehefTer, with which 

 the Mount Apo plant agrees, except that the leaves of the latter arc somewhat 

 smaller than in the Termite plant. The Mount Apo plant is apparently quite dif- 

 ferent from the species described by Beccari u and Clarke-" as Diplycosia micro- 

 phylla (Blume) Becc., and by King and Gamble 21 as Vaccinium microphyllum 

 Blume, but I am of the opinion that Blume's description applies more closely 

 to the Mount Apo plant than to the descriptions of Malayan Peninsula and 

 Bornean material by the authors cited above. According to Valeton. the spe- 

 cimen reported from Celebes by Koorders 22 as Vaccinium microphyllum "lteinw.," 

 is not. Blume's species, the flowers being racemose in Koorders's specimens. 



PBIMULACEJE. 



LYSIMACHIA Linn. 



Lysimachia microphylla Merrill sp. now § Lerouxia. 



A small ascending uniformly and rather strongly hirsute-pubescent 

 annual 5 em. high or less, with opposite, peiioled, glandular-punctate, 

 obtuse or rounded leaves and short pediceled yellow flowers. Stems 

 slender, densely hirsute-pubescent with pale spreading hairs, simple or 

 slightly branched from the base. Leaves opposite, orbicular-ovate to 

 ovate, sometimes subreni form-orbicular, 5 to 7 mm. long, often nearly as 

 wide, the apex rounded or blunt, the base suhtruncate to acute, glandular 

 punctate, uniformly hirsute-pubescent on both surfaces; petioles 1.5 to 

 2 mm. long, pubescent. Flowers solitary in the upper axils, the pedicels 

 pubescent, about 2 mm. long. Calyx cleft nearly to the base, the lobes 

 linear-lanceolate, slightly acuminate, about 3.-) mm. long, 1 mm. wide. 

 glandular punctate, strigose pubescent outside. Corolla yellow. 3.5 mm. 

 long, glabrous, the tube less than 1 mm. long, the lobes elliptical-ovate to 

 elliptical-oblong, obtuse or acute, glandular punctate. Filaments 1.5 



"Malesia (1878), 1, 212. 

 '"Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. (1882), 3, 450. 

 21 Mai. Fl. Mai. Penin. (1905), 3, 273. 

 "Meded. 'a Lands Plant. (1808), 19, 514. 



