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ate, the base acute to rounded and usually 5-nerved, sometimes 

 with an additional pair of slender marginal nerves, the inner 

 nerves leaving the midrib 4 to 8 mm above the base, the reticula- 

 tions rather lax; petioles 4 to 8 mm long, rather stout. 

 Flowers fascicled in the uppermost axils, the young buds entire- 

 ly inclosed by numerous, imbricate, brown, sparingly pubescent, 

 concave bracts forming a cylindric head about 1 cm in diameter, 

 some of the bracts subpersistent, others deciduous. Pedicels 

 up to 10 mm long. Calyx glabrous, about 3.5 mm long, shallowly 

 5-lobed, the lobes broadly ovate, shortly and abruptly acuminate. 

 Corolla red, 8 to 10 mm long, glabrous, somewhat widened 

 upward, the lobes ovate, about 3 mm long. Stamens 10, gla- 

 brous, dimorphous, the larger ones with filaments and anthers 

 about 4 mm long, the shorter ones with filaments 3 mm long 

 and anthers about 2 mm long. Styles 12 mm long, glabrous. 

 Fruits unknown. 



Mindanao, Misamis Province, Mount Malindang, For. Bur. 

 ^708 Mearns & Hutchinson, May, 1906. In the mossy forest, 

 altitude about 1,700 meters. The same species is apparently 

 represented by Bur. Sci. 38537 Ramos & Edano from Mount Lipa, 

 Bukidnon Subprovlnce, Mindanao, July, 1920. 



Both specimens were originally identified as Vacdnium apoa- 

 num Merr.=Dimorphanthera apoana Schltr. but, like that 

 species, are true representatives of the genus Dimorphanthera, 

 differing from the latter especially in the glabrous flowers. It 

 is the second species of the genus to be found in the Philippines, 

 Dimorphanthera being now known otherwise only from New 

 Guinea and Amboina, with twenty-seven species in New Guinea 

 and one in Amboina. 



EPACRIDACEAE 

 8TYPHELIA Smith 

 8TYPHELIA PHILIPPINENSIS sp. nov. 



Frutex vel suffrutex 0.5 ad 3 m altus, ramis ramulisque nu- 

 merosis, valde rugosis, ramulis puberulis ; f oliis numerosis, con- 

 fertis, rigidis, acute acuminatis, anguste lanceolatis, 7 ad 13 

 mm longis, 1 ad 2 mm latis, brevissime petiolatis, supra olivaceis, 

 subtus glaucis; floribus terminalibus, bracteis bractiolisque late 

 ovatis, subacutis, 2 mm longis; sepalis 5, ovatis, 3 mm longis, 

 corollae lobis intus villosis; fructibus in siccitate rugosis, 3 ad 

 4 mm diametro, putamine 4-loculare. 



