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VACCINIUM Linn. 



Vaccinium microphyllum Bhinie. Bijdr. (1820) Sol; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 2 

 (1850) 1063. 



Mindanao, District of Davao, Mount Apo (1037, 1417 Copeland) April, October, 

 1904. A terrestrial shrub on the wind-swept summit 2,600 to 3,000 m., the shoots 

 not ascending more than 10 cm. from the ground except in the more slieltered 

 places. 



Vaccinium micro phylhim Blume, was described from a specimen in Reinwardt's 

 lierbarium from the mountains of Celebes, the original description being very 

 short, but applying closely to the specimens cited above. A specimen of No. 1417 

 Copeland was sent to Dr. Treub, director of the Botanical Garden at Buitenzorg, 

 Java, for verification of the above identification. Dr. Valeton, who examined 

 the material, states that there is no authentic specimen of Vaccinium mici-ophyllum 

 in the herbarium at Buitenzorg, but that there is a sterile specimen collected by 

 Teysmann in Ternate and identified as V. microphyllum by Scheffer, with which 

 the Mount Apo plant agrees, except .that the leaves of the latter are somewhat 

 smaller than in the Ternate plant. The Mount Apo plant is apparently quite dif- 

 ferent from tlie species described by Beccari " and Clarke'" as Diplycosia micro- 

 phylla (Blume) Becc, and by King and Gamble ^^ as Vaccinium microphyllum 

 Blume, but I am of the opinion that Blume's description applies more closely 

 to the Mount Apo plant than to the descriptions of Malayan Peninsula and 

 Bornean material by the authors cited above. According to Valeton, the spe- 

 cimen reported from Celebes by Koorders ^^ as Vaccinium microphyllum "Reinw.," 

 is not Blume's species, the flowers being racemose in Koorders's specimens. 



PlilMULACE^. 



LYSIMACHIA Linn. 



Lysimachia microphylla ^Merrill sp. nov. % Lerouxia. 



A small ascending uniformly and rather strongly hirsute-pnl)escent 

 annual 5 cm. high or less, with opposite, petioled, glandular-punctate, 

 obtuse or rounded leaves and short pediceled yellow flowers. Stems 

 slender, densely hirsute-pubescent with pale spreading hairs, simple or 

 slightly branched from the base. Leaves opposite, orbicular-ovate to 

 ovate, sometimes subreniform-orbicular, 5 to 7 mm. long, often nearly as 

 wide, the apex rounded or blunt, the base subtruncate to acute, glandular 

 punctate, uniformly hirsute-pubescent on both surfaces; petioles 1.5 to 

 2 mm. long, pubescent. Flowers solitary in the upper axils, the pedicels 

 pubescent, about 2 mm. long. Calyx cleft nearly to the base, the lobes 

 linear-lanceolate, slightly acuminate, about 3.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, 

 glandular punctate, strigose pubescent outside. Corolla yellow, 3.5 mm. 

 long, glabrous, the tuljc less than 1 mm. long, the lobes elliptical-ovate to 

 olliptical-()l)long. ol)tuse or acute, glandular ])unctate. Filaments 1.5 



'■> Malcsia (1878), 1, 212. 



-"Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ( 1882), 3, 4r)6. 



"'Mat. Fl. Mai. Penin. (1005), 3, 273. 



■- Mcded. 's Lands Plant. (18i)8), 19, 514. 



