JANUARY 31, 1911] THE ERICACEAE OF Mount Apo 1095 
spicately racemose; rachis smooth, more or less crooked, 5 
to 8 em. long, bearing scattered flowers along its entire length, 
aseending or divaricate; pedicels recurved, similarly green 
and shining, stout, 1 cm. long; calyx also green, flatly tur- 
binate, 4 mm. high, 6 mm. across, glabrate except the fine- 
ly ciliate margins of the 5 whitish and broadly rounded 
segments; corolla flask shaped, waxy white except the 5 small 
purplish reflexed segments, 12 mm. long, 8 mm. across the 
base, 2.5 mm. across the top, becoming detached from the 
calyx; stamens 10, inserted upon the base of the corolla; 
filaments white, widely expanded toward the base, hairy 
below the middle, 5 mm. long, slenderly tapering; anthers 
2.5 mm. long, oblong with truncate or minutely lobed ends, 
the upper one half easily separating, dorsally attached, beaks 
entirely wanting, dehiscent through large special pores; ovary 
inferior; style 12 mm. long, glabrous, columnar, also whitish, 
bearing a terminal green stigma; fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 11686, 4. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Distriet of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
Collected from the lower limbs of large lofty trees on 
a forested ridge at 5500 feet of mount Calelan. A coarse 
and rigid plant in all its parts. The Bagobos call it ''Basisir." 
Vaccinium sylvaticum Elm. n. sp. 
Epipytic and shrubby; stems ascending, several, 2 m. long, 
rebranched from near the base, moderately rigid, covered 
with smooth grayish mottled bark; twigs ascending, green, 
glabrous. Leaves also ascending, recurved toward the sharply 
acuminate apex, base attenuate, deep green and shining 
on the upper surface, much paler beneath, glabrous, drying 
brown especially the lower surface, coriaceous, oblong to 
elliptic with gradually tapering ends, entire and subinvolute 
in the dry state, less than 1 dm. long, 3 cm. across the 
middle, the smallest leaves oblanceolate; midrib prominent 
beneath, usually with 2 pairs of lateral ones arising from 
near the base, all more or less reticulately anastomosing, 
the reticulations more evident on the upper side at least 
in the dry leaves; petiole proper 5 mm. long, glabrous, 
dark brown. Spicate racemes ascending, terminal or from 
