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diameter, the bracteoles subtending the sterile flowers oblong, 
acute to obtuse, 4 to 5 mm long, coriaceous, somewhat keeled, 
more or less furfuraceous; lateral branches about 4 cm long, 
straight or somewhat geniculate at the middle, here supplied with 
a pair of coriaceous, somewhat setose-furfuraceous bracts, 4 to 
5 mm in length; heads ellipsoid, dense, about 1 cm long, many- 
flowered, each flower subtended by an obovate 3 to 4 mm long 
bracteole, which is thickened in the median portion and rather 
prominently brown fimbriate-ciliate on the back and margins, 
and more or less inclosing the flower; pedicels 1 mm long or less. 
Calyx obovoid, 2 to 2.5 mm long, truncate, narrowed below, ob- 
scurely 4-angled by compression, the angles rounded. Ovary 
4-celled. 
Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, Mount Palimlin, Bur. Sci, 
33308 Ramos, August 21, 1918, on forested slopes near the sum- 
mit, altitude about 1,000 meters. 
This strongly marked species is most closely allied to Boerlagio- 
dendron catanduanense Merr., from which it is easily distin- 
guished by its pectinate petiolar crests; its much longer petioles ; 
and its few-lobed caudate-acuminate leaflets, the lobes extending 
nearly to the midrib and ascending rather than divaricate. The 
inflorescence is also much larger and further differs in its fur- 
furaceous-setose bracts and very different sterile and fertile 
heads. ' 
ERICACEAE 
VACCINIUM Linnaeus 
VACCINIUM ILOCANUM sp. nov. 
Frutex epiphyticus, inflorescentiis exceptis glaber ; foliis ellip- 
ticis, crasse coriaceis, nitidis, integris, 6 ad 8 cm longis, basi 
acutis, apice breviter abrupteque acuminatis, nervis utrinque 
circiter 4, tenuibus, inferioribus adscendentibus; racemis axillar- 
ibus, solitariis, 2 ad 4 cm longis, pubescentibus; bracteis per- 
sistentibus, ovatis ad elliptico-ovatis, 5 ad 6 mm longis, acutis 
vel acuminatis; corolla glabris, 6 mm longa; filamentis barbatis; 
antheris oblongis, 1.1 mm longis. 
An epiphytic shrub, entirely glabrous except the inflorescences, 
the branchlets about 3 mm in diameter, reddish-brown when dry. 
Leaves elliptic, thickly coriaceous, olivaceous and shining when 
dry, entire, 6 to 8 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, margins somewhat 
recurved, the lower surface somewhat paler than the upper and 
distinctly glandular-punctate, the base acute, apex acute to shortly 
and abruptly acuminate; lateral nerves about 4 on each side of 
