1490 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. IV, ArT. 75 
ERICACEAE. 
Vaccinium gitingense Elm. n. sp. 
A low spreading bush; stem 5 em. thick, 2 m. long, branched 
from the base; branches widely spreading, rigid, breaking with 
a snap, 1 to 2 m. long; wood hard, reddish brown except the 
thin sapwood, radially dotted, without odor or taste; bark coarse- 
ly checked longitudinally, dull gray; twigs terete, glabrous or 
the young tips faintly cinereous. Leaves rigidly coriaceous, 
ascending, flat, a trifle paler green beneath, curing unequally 
brown, the rounded basal portion entire, the sides obscurely 
crenately dentate, usually subinvolute, ovate to ovately elliptic, 
2 em. long, nearly 1 em. wide below the middle, gradually acute 
at apex, alternate, densely scattered along the branchlets, reddish 
in the young state; midrib faint, the 3 to 5 lateral oblique pairs 
very obscure, reticulations obsolete; petiole 2 mm. long, relative- 
ly thick and much compressed, soon becoming glabrous, with à 
bud in the axil; calyx thick, cup shaped, glabrous, 3 mm. across, 
the basal portion united, the upper one half terminated into very 
sharply pointed 4 or 5 segments which are very finely ciliate along 
the edges; corolla deep red, broadly tubular, 6 mm. long, gla- 
brous except the throat which is glaucus and occasionally bears 
a few hairs, the 5 narrow acute or acuminately pointed apex 
strongly recurved in anthesis, the tube ultimately separating 
into the segments which are gradually narrowed from the base to 
the apex; stamens 10, in 2 alternating and subequal rows, all 
inserted upon the base of the corolla and included by it; filaments 
villose, averaging 1.5 mm. long, thickened toward the base, those 
alternating with the segments a trifle longer than the other 5; 
anthers pale yellow, lanceoloid, 1.5 mm. long, dehiscing at the 
apex through 2 slender apical prongs, dorsifixed, less than 0.5 mm. 
thick toward the base; style terete, 6 mm. long, thick and fleshy, 
2-pointed at the apex, bearing a granular flattish stigma; fruit 
globose, glabrous, at least 5 mm. in diameter, the circular apica] 
portion covered over by the 5 persistent sharply pointed calyx 
teeth. 
Type specimen 12555, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 
1910. 
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