JANUARY 31, 1911] THE ERICACEAE oF Mount Apo 1093 
Represented by species 11394, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, August, 1909. 
The flowers of the above species are rather inconspicuous, 
greenish yellow or yellowish white, the fruits bluish. Those 
of my number 9540 from the summit of the Cuernos mount- 
ains of southern Negros are showy, shining vermillion red 
and its berries somewhat of the same color. The latter 
number was distributed under V. mindorense Hemsl., because 
of Merrill’s specimen from the topotype are noted as having 
red flowers. My specimen from mount Apo is a true Vaccinium, 
but not at all V. microphyllum Blm. in King et Gamble’s 
Mat. Fl. Mal. Pen. n. XVI, p. 62 which description is that 
of a Diplycosia. 
Vaccinium elegans Elm, n. sp. 
Tree 10 m. high, 3 dm. thick or more; its main branches 
arising from below the middle, the branches horizontally spread- 
ing, the ultimate ones lax and numerous; wood hard, heavy, 
reddish toward the middle, odorless; the bark dark brown, 
coarsely shredded longitudinally, smooth and grayish on the 
branchlets, the twigs green and glabrous. Leaves horizontal 
and. recurved, alternatingly scattered along the branchlets, 
thinly coriaceous, shining deep green above, much paler 
green beneath, the young terminal leaves reddish and pen- 
dulous, entire margins subinvolute in the dry state, glabrous, 
the lower surface brown and the upper side nearly black 
when dry, elliptic to lanceolate or oblongish, 5 cm. long, 
2 cm. wide across the middle, acute but occasionally 
obtuse or cuneate, gradually tapering into the acuminate or 
caudate apex; petiole 3 mm. long, glabrous; midrib prom- 
inent beneath, grooved along the upper side; the lateral 
4 to 6 pairs ascending, relatively faint, reticulations visible 
from both sides. Spicate racemes terminal or from the 
uppermost leaf axils, ascending, 3 to 5 cm. long, glabrous; 
pedicels less than 1 em. long, divaricate, not numerous 
and scattering all along the rachis, glabrate or minutely 
glandular hairy, usually recurved; calyx glabrous except 
the finely ciliate margins, broadly cup shaped, 4 mm. 
across, with 5 blunt and callous tipped teeth; corolla 
