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diameter, the bracteoles subtending the sterile flowers oblong, 

 acute to obtuse, 4 to 5 mm long, coriaceous, somewhat keeled, 

 more or less f urf uraceous ; lateral branches about 4 cm long, 

 straight or somewhat geniculate at the middle, here supplied with 

 a pair of coriaceous, somewhat setose-furfuraceous bracts, 4 to 

 5 mm in length; heads ellipsoid, dense, about 1 cm long, many- 

 flowered, each flower subtended by an obovate 3 to 4 mm long 

 bracteole, which is thickened in the median portion and rather 

 prominently brown fimbriate-ciliate on the back and margins, 

 and more or less inclosing the flower ; pedicels 1 mm long or less. 

 Calyx obovoid, 2 to 2.5 mm long, truncate, narrowed below, ob- 

 scurely 4-angled by compression, the angles rounded. Ovary 

 4-celled. 



Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, Mount Palimlin, Bur. Sci. 

 33308 Ramos, August 21, 1918, on forested slopes near the sum- 

 mit, altitude about 1,000 meters. 



This strongly marked species is most closely allied to Boerlagio- 

 dendron catandiuanense Merr., from which it is easily distin- 

 guished by its pectinate petiolar crests ; its much longer petioles ; 

 and its few-lobed caudate-acuminate leaflets, the lobes extending 

 nearly to the midrib and ascending rather than divaricate. The 

 inflorescence is also much larger and further differs in its fur- 

 furaceous-setose bracts and very different sterile and fertile 

 heads. 



ERICACEAE 



VACCINIUM Linnaeus 

 VACCINIUM ILOCANUM sp. nov. 



Frutex epiphyticus, inflorescentiis exceptis glaber ; f oliis ellip- 

 ticis, crasse coriaceis, nitidis, integris, 6 ad 8 cm longis, basi 

 acutis, apice breviter abrupteque acuminatis, nervis utrinque 

 circiter 4, tenuibus, inf erioribus adscendentibus ; racemis axillar- 

 ibus, solitariis, 2 ad 4 cm longis, pubescentibus ; bracteis per- 

 sistentibus, ovatis ad elliptico-ovatis, 5 ad 6 mm longis, acutis 

 vel acuminatis ; corolla glabris, 6 mm longa ; filamentis barbatis ; 

 antheris oblongis, 1.1 mm longis. 



An epiphytic shrub, entirely glabrous except the inflorescences, 

 the branchlets about 3 mm in diameter, reddish-brown when dry. 

 Leaves elliptic, thickly coriaceous, olivaceous and shining when 

 dry, entire, 6 to 8 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, margins somewhat 

 recurved, the lower surface somewhat paler than the upper and 

 distinctly glandular-punctate, the base acute, apex acute to shortly 

 and abruptly acuminate; lateral nerves about 4 on each side of 



