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the midrib, slender, the lower two pairs from near the base 
ascending, reaching at least to the upper two-thirds of the leaf ; 
petioles very stout, reddish-brown, 5 to 8 mm long. Racemes 
axillary, and sometimes terminating short lateral branches, 2 
to 4 cm long, the rachis, bracts, pedicels, and calyces more or less - 
pubescent with short spreading hairs; pedicels 3 to 4 mm long; 
bracts persistent, ovate to elliptic-ovate, 5 to 6 mm long, usually 
acute, sometimes slightly acuminate. Calyx-tube almost obsolete, 
the lobes triangular, acute, pubescent, 1.5 mm long. Corolla 
oblong-ovoid, glabrous, narrowed upward, about 6 mm long, 3.5 
mm in diameter below the middle, red, the lobes short, broadly 
ovate, recurved. Filaments densely bearded, about 1 mm long; 
anthers oblong, about 1.1 mm long, the terminal tubes very short, 
not narrowed, opening by oblique pairs. Style stout, glabrous, 
3mm long. Top of the ovary very slightly pubescent. 
Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, Mount Palimlim, Bur. Sci. 
33372 Ramos, August 21, 1918, growing on trees on forested 
slopes near the summit, altitude about 3,100 meters. 
The alliance of this species is manifestly with Vaccinium 
platyphyllum Merr., from which, among other characters, it is 
distinguished by its smaller, fewer-nerved leaves, shorter pedi- 
cels, and only slightly pubescent top of the ovary. 
DIPLYCOSIA Blume 
DIPLYCOSIA GLABRA sp. nov. 
Frutex epiphyticus, glaber, vel ramulis junioribus parcissime 
setosis ; foliis ellipticis ad oblong-ellipticis, acutis vel brevissime 
apiculatis, basi acutis, usque ad 6 cm longis, in siccitate olivaceo- 
brunneis vel pallidis, nitidis, nervis utrinque 2, tenuibus, supra 
leviter impressis, subtus obsoletis; floribus axillaribus, solitariis 
vel fasciculatis, pedicellatis, bracteolis late ovatis, 1.5 mm longis, 
margine leviter ciliatis, calycis circiter 2 mm longis, lobis late 
ovatis, obtusis, 1.5 mm longis. 
A glabrous, erect, epiphytic shrub, attaining a height of from 
3 to 4 m, the very young branchlets sometimes with a very few 
slender setae. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 2 to 
6 cm long, 1 to 2.5 em wide, brownish-olivaceous or pale when dry, 
shining, the lower surface with small scattered, brownish glands, 
the base acute, the apex usually acute and ending in a short, stout, 
blunt apiculus; lateral nerves 2 on each side of the midrib, 
slender, slightly impressed on the upper surface, obsolete on the 
lower surface, curved, the upper pair leaving the midrib at or 
near the middle of the leaf, the reticulations obsolete; petioles 
