1092 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Art. 59 
ones 1.5 inch thick and freely rebranched, wood watery white, 
not hard, sweetish, odorless; bark brown, on the stems thinly 
checked, smooth on the more or less slender and numerous 
branchlets; leaves rigid, flat, ascending, paler green beneath; 
flowers deep flesh red, pendulous, upon strongly recurved 
green pedicels, odorless. The Bagobos call it '"Tahima." 
Represented by number 11258, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, August, 1909. 
These specimens are typical and are always epiphytic 
shrubs, never trees 20 feet high with stems a foot thick. 
Vaccinium villarii Vid. 
Field-note:—Rigid and well interlaced shrubs, 1 to 2 m. 
high; wood hard, covered with brown bark; leaves rigid, 
similarly green on both sides, occasionally grayish green; 
flowers greenish white, pendulous; fruit blackish but frequently 
covered with a bloom. Common on all the summit peaks 
of mount Apo, extending down to timber line and forming 
the greater portion of the chaparral formation. It can at nearly 
all seasons be found in flower and with ripe berries. ''Dungal" 
is the native or Bagobo name. 
Represented by number 11392, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Exceedingly common and luxurient on Apo, but not at all 
noticed on mount Calelan. A widely distributed endemic 
species in all the alpine regions of the Philippines at least. 
It produces an abundance of edible fruits, popularly known 
as huckle-berry or blue-berry. 
Vaccinium microphyllum Blm. 
Field-note:—A creeping, dwarfed and rigid shrub, mostly 
in rock crevices all over the rocky summit of mount Apo above 
the timber line and in the chaparral; leaves rigid, shining 
green, much paler green beneath, densely clothing the ul- 
timate branches; flowers subpendulous as are also the fruits; 
berries steel blue when ripe, ovoidly globose, covered with 
a thin skin, very juicy and possesses a fine sweet flavor. 
The Bagobos call it ''Manalali." 
