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truncate, the outer upper angles sharp, about 1.5 cm long and 2 

 cm wide across the apex. 



Leyte, Dagami, Bur. Sci. 15367 Ramos, August, 1912, in forests near 

 the summit of Mount Buraui. 



A characteristic species readily distinguishable by its broad stipules 

 and its rather large axillary fascicled flowers, two or three flowers in 

 a fascicle, one of which is pistillate and one or two staminate, the former 

 shortly pedicelled or subsessile, the latter long and slenderly pedicelled. 

 Its alliance seems to be with Begonia robinsonii Merr., which, however, 

 it does not greatly resemble. 



ERICACEAE 



DIPLYCOSIA Blume 



DIPLYCOSIA FASCICULIFLORA sp. nov. 



Species D. parvifoliae affinis, differt floribus fasciculatis, pedi- 

 cellis brevioribus, ramis ramulisque glabris, vix setosis. 



Apparently scandent, probably epiphytic, the branches terete, 

 glabrous, dark reddish-brown, the branchlets paler, glabrous, 

 not at all setose. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 

 dull, 2 to 4 cm long, 1 to 1.5 cm wide, when young with few, 

 long, slender, brown, setose hairs on the margins, and scattered 

 ones on both surfaces, when mature quite glabrous, the midrib 

 prominent, lateral nerves obsolete, base and apex acute ; petioles 

 2 to 3 mm long, slightly setose. Flowers small, pedicelled, in 

 axillary fascicles, up to 8 in each fascicle, the pedicels slender, 

 glabrous, 5 mm long or less, the basal bracts small, the apical 

 bracteoles very broadly ovate, obscurely acuminate, puberulent. 

 Calyx glabrous, somewhat accrescent and 2.5 mm long, the lobes 

 triangular, acute, about 1 mm long. Corolla and stamens not 

 seen. 



Luzon, Subprovince of Ifugao, Mount Polls, Bur. Sci. 19758 McGregor, 

 February 1, 1913. 



A species very similar and manifestly closely allied to Diplycosia parvi- 

 folia Merr., of Negros, strongly resembling that species in vegetative 

 characters, especially in the obsolete lateral nerves and reticulations. It 

 differs from that species, however, in its flowers being fascicled, not 

 solitary, its longer pedicels, and somewhat larger leaves. 



VACCINIUM Linnaeus 



VACCINIUM IRIGAENSE sp. nov. 



Frutex glaber, circiter 5 m altus; foliis usque ad 6 cm longis, 

 coriaceis, oblongo-obovatis, petiolatis, utrinque angustatis, basi 

 acutis, tenuiter 5- vel 7-plinerviis, apice subrostrato-acuminatis; 

 racemis axillaribus, solitariis, usque ad 6 cm longis, multifloris; 

 floribus 1 cm longis, oblongis, sursum angustatis, ebracteolatis ; 

 filamentis pilosis. 



