PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 323 



anthers 4 to 4.5 mm long, the terminal tubes 2 mm long, opening 

 by pores. Style 12 mm long, pubescent. u. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Sax River Mountains, back of San 

 Ramon, Merrill 8087, November 30, 1911, altitude about 900 m. 



A species closely allied to Vaccinhim barandanwjn Vidal, of Luzon and 

 Mindoro {V. hutchinsonii Merr.), which it closely resembles, differing in 

 its somewhat smaller flowers, shorter petioles, its epiphytic habit, and its 

 pubescent, not glabrous styles. 



VACCINIUM LOHERI sp. nov. 



Frutex parvus, epiphyticus, glaber; foliis crasse coriaceis, 

 ellipticis, in siccitate pallidis, nitidis, 1.5 ad 2 cm longis, integris, 

 apice rotundatis, basi obscure triplinerviis, acutis, 2-glandulosis, 

 petiolo vix 2 mm longo ; floribus solitariis, axillaribus, pedicellatis. 



A small, epiphytic, glabrous shrub, the branches terete, grayish, 

 the younger ones reddish-brown, wrinkled when dry. Leaves 

 numerous, crowded, elliptic, 1.5 to 2 cm long, thickly coriaceous, 

 when dry rather pale and shining, the apex rounded, the base 

 acute, with two prominent glands near the juncture with the 

 petiole, the margins thickened, somewhat recurved, base obscurely 

 3-plinerved, the lateral nerves nearly as prominent as the midrib, 

 nearly or quite reaching the apex, the reticulations obsolete or 

 nearly so; petioles 1 to 2 tnm long. Flowers white, according 

 to the collector (corolla not seen). Pedicles solitary, axillary, 

 slender, about 6 mm long, somewhat curved, the basal bracteoles 

 ovate, about 0.5 mm long. Calyx 2 mm long, broadly urceolate, 

 the tube ovoid, globose, about 1.5 mm in diameter, the limb 

 somewhat spreading, 5-toothed, the teeth broadly triangular- 

 ovate, acute or slightly acuminate, 0.5 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, Montalban; that is, in the mountains back of 

 Montalban, Loher 6187, April 18, 1905. 



Although my specimen is imperfect, the corolla being lacking, I have not 

 hesitated to describe this distinct form. It is well characterized by its 

 small, crowded, entire, obtuse, obscurely nerved leaves which are rounded at 

 the apex, acute and 2-glandular at the base, and by its solitary, axillary 

 flowers. Among the Philippine species it is most closely allied to Vacci- 

 nium microphylluiji Blume (V. tnindorense Rendle), but is very different 

 from that species. 



MYRSINACEAE. 



ARDISIA Sw. 

 ARDISIA CAGAYANENSIS sp. nov. § Acrardisia. 



Species A. scabridae Mez afRnis, differt foliis majoribus, usque 

 ad 16 cm longis, obscure crenato-dentatis, nervis magis num- 

 erosis, 25 ad 30 utrinque. 



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