January 31, 1911] THe ERICACEAE or Mount Apo 1091 
an inch in diameter. The shrubs grew in compact soil mixed 
with sand-stone, were no more than waist high and rigid- 
ly interlaced. Here the writer as well as the members of 
a military party, commanded by  Lieuts. W. H. Noble and 
Roderick Dew, could pick and eat all the berries we desired 
in a small path. Rhododendron copelandi Merr. is usually a 
finely branched “erect summit shrub with large balls of pure 
white faintly fragrant flowers. This same species however was 
noticed in the mossy forests to assume a climbing habit. A sim- 
ilar instance is R. apoanwm Stein. This species is a common 
erect low shrub about the summit peaks of mount Apo, and 
which becomes a scandent rather lofty climber in the woods of 
mount Calelan. Again, R. mindanaense Merr. is a low rigid 
shrub on the rocky peaks of Apo, and in the elfinwoods of 
the summit of mount Calelan it assumed a subscandent habit. 
GAULTHERIA Linn. 
Gaultheria cumingiana Vid. 
Field-note:—Small suffrutescent shrub, on moss covered 
tree trunks at 8500 feet on the summit of mount Calelan; 
stems tough, green below, red above, terete, branched, 3 feet 
long; leaves coriaceous, horizontal, with strongly recurved 
tips, shining deep green above, much lighter green beneath; 
inflorescent stalks divaricate, smooth, green or reddish on 
the exposed portions, pedicels descendingly recurved; young 
fruits greenish but soon turning bluish red. ‘‘Logauwoy’’ 
is the Bagobo name for it. 
Represented by number 11678, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, September, 1909. 
VACCINIUM Linn. 
Vaccinium apoanum Merr. 
Field-note:—An epiphytic shrub, on the upper rigid limbs 
of trees on a wind swept ridge at 3500 feet of mount Bu- 
rebid; stems numerous from the same root cluster, ascending 
and interlaced, forming dense bushes, 6 feet high, the larger 
