1094 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [VoL. III, Arr. 59 
6 mm. long, broadly cylindric, whitish, constricted toward 
the apex, glabrous, with 5 small recurved segments, inserted 
upon the calyx below their teeth; stamens 8, inserted upon 
the base of the corolla; filaments 2.5 mm. long, widest 
and flattened toward the base, hairy; anther subauriculate 
and nearly basifixed, the upper incurved portion deeply cleft, 
with only short hairs, oblong, 1 mm. long; style smooth, 
striate, 5 mm. long, columnar, bearing a small terminal 
stigma; ovary inferior; fruit not seen. 
Type specimen 11683, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
~ District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
Discovered in dense woods or forests on a ridge at 6500 
feet of mount Calelan. 
Only one tree was found during the last month of my 
seven months’ exploration work. An elegant species with lax 
branehlets, pleasing green foliage and waxy white flowers! 
'"Mandalogong" is the vernacular Bagobo name. 
Remotely resembling V. hasseltii Miq., but the anther 
beaks are not at all as described in that species. 
Vaccinium perrigidum Elm. n. sp. 
An epiphytic shrub; stem usually few, branched all along, 
the larger ones 5 m. long; wood whitish, tough, covered 
with smooth grayish bark, brown on the branches. Leaves 
rigidly coriaceous, not numerous, alternatingly scattered, 
glabrous, horizontal or descending, sublucid on both sides, 
deep green above, paler so beneath, flat or shallowly con- 
duplicate on the upper side, the acute or slenderly acuminate 
tips recurved, young leaves pale green, entire margins sub- 
involute in the dry state, oblong to elliptish, base rounded 
or short obtuse, the larger blades 1 dm, long by 4.5 cm. wide 
across the middle or immediately below it, turning brownish 
green while drying; petiole stout, also glabrous, reddish brown, 
nearly black when dry, 1 cm. long or longer; nerves equally 
pronounced on both sides, the midrib usually with 2 pairs 
of lateral ones arising from near the base and curvingly 
extending to the base of the tip, the 1 to 3 secondary 
lateral pairs rather obscure, reticulations evident. Inflores- 
cence chiefly terminal or from the uppermost leaf axils, 
