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A glabrous shrub about 5 m high, the branches dark reddish- 

 brown, terete, shining, the branchlets brownish. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, rather narrowly oblong-obovate, 4.5 to 6 cm long, 1.5 to 

 2.5 cm wide, shining, the lower surface paler than the upper, 

 narrowed below to the acute and slenderly 5- or 7-plinerved base, 

 and above to the somewhat rostrate-acuminate apex, the acumen 

 blunt, less than 1 cm long; reticulations slender, lax; petioles 



5 mm long or less. Racemes axillary, solitary up to 6 cm long, 

 rather many flowered. Flowers red, 1 cm long, their pedicels 



6 to 7 mm long, ebracteate. Calyx glabrous, about 1.5 mm long, 

 3 to 3.5 mm in diameter, the lobes broadly ovate, blunt, 1 mm 

 long or less. Corolla oblong, 3 mm in diameter below, narrowed 

 above and 1 mm in diameter under the orifice, glabrous, the 

 lobes slightly spreading, oblong, obtuse, 1 mm long. Stamens 

 10; filaments flattened below, somewhat pilose, 4 mm long; 

 anthers oblong, truncate, straight or slightly curved, 1.5 mm 

 long. Style stout, glabrous, 8 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Camarines, Mount Iriga, Phil. PL 1549 Ramos, 

 December 3, 1913, in the mossy forest. 



A species manifestly allied to Vaccinium caudatum Warb., from which 

 it differs in its quite differently shaped leaves and larger flowers. 



VACCINIUM MACGREGORII sp. nov. 



Frutex erectus (vel scandens ?), inflorescentiis parce pubes- 

 centibus exceptis glaber; foliis magnis, coriaceis, usque ad 18 

 cm longis, petiolatis, basi acutis, apice subcaudato-acuminatis, 

 anguste ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, basi prominente 7-plinerviis ; 

 racemis paucifloris, pubescentibus, axillaribus, solitariis, usque 

 ad 9 cm longis, bracteolis oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis, 2 cm 

 longis, deciduis; corolla rubra, 1.6 cm longa, supra leviter am- 

 pliata. 



An erect (or scandent ?) shrub, the branches slender, brown- 

 ish, striate, somewhat zig-zag between the distant leaves, 

 glabrous. Leaves narrowly ovate to oblong-ovate, coriaceous, 

 shining on both surfaces, 14 to 18 cm long, 6 to 7 cm wide, 

 entire, the base acute, the apex slenderly subcaudate-acuminate, 

 the base prominently 7-plinerved, sometimes with an additional 

 outer fainter pair, the inner one or two pairs reaching the apex, 

 the primary reticulations lax, the ultimate ones rather dense; 

 petioles stout, 8 mm long. Racemes axillary, solitary, up to 8 

 cm in length, each about 10-flowered, all parts sparingly pubes- 

 cent with short, white, scattered hairs, the bracteoles oblong- 

 lanceolate, sharply acuminate, about 2 cm long, deciduous, the 

 pedicels 1 to 1.5 cm long. Calyx-tube cup-shaped, slightly con- 

 stricted above, the limb somewhat spreading, making the whole 



