420 The Philippine Journal of Science 1922 



A much-branched, rather rigid undershrub or shrub, 0.5 to 

 3 m high, the branches and branchlets rugose from the numerous 

 conspicuous pulvini of fallen leaves. The ultimate branchlets 

 somewhat puberulent. Leaves very numerous, crowded, imbri- 

 cate, rigid, narrowly lanceolate, sharply acuminate, 7 to 13 mm 

 long, 1 to 2 mm wide, the upper surface smopth, olivaceous, 

 shining, the lower surface glaucous, longitudinally striate, the 

 petiole about 0.5 mm long. Flowers terminal, few to many, 

 crowded, the spikelike inflorescence up to 1 cm long and 5 mm in 

 diameter. Flowers white, the bracts broadly ovate, acute or 

 somewhat obtuse, concave, the margins slightly pubescent, about 

 2 mm long, the bracteoles similar. Sepals 5, ovate, about 3 

 mm long, acute, their margins slightly ciliate. Corolla tube 

 rather slender, glabrous, about 2 mm long, the lobes 5, narrowly 

 lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the tube, spreading, villous on 

 the inside. Ovary subglobose, glabrous, the style about 1 mm 

 long. Fruit globose, somewhat fleshy, white, pink or red when 

 fresh, when dry rugose, 3 to 4 mm in diameter, the putamen 

 hard, 4-celled, the cells 1-seeded. 



Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, between Suyoc and Pauai, Mer- 

 rill U762, November 7, 1905, on exposed ridges, altitude about 

 2,200 meters. For. Bur. lUkS Darling, January, 1909. Negros, 

 Canlaon Volcano, Merrill Philip. PI. 2US (type), April, 1910, a 

 shrub up to 3 m high in the mossy thickets on exposed ridges 

 but here not common, abundant in open places on the old crater 

 ascending to an altitude of about 2,000 meters, often flowering 

 when less than 0.5 m high. Mindanao, Davao Subprovince, 

 Mount Apo, Copeland 10 W, 1U9, April and October, 1904, De 

 Vore & Hoover 313, 379, May, 1903, Elmer 11389. 



The specimens have been referred to the Bomean Styphelia 

 suaveolens (Hook, f.) J. J. Sm., the identification having been 

 based largely on published descriptions. The species is mani- 

 festly allied to the Bornean form but abundant material from 

 Mount Kinabalu, the type locality of the latter species, shows 

 that the Philippine form differs in a number of details, notably 

 in its much longer, differently shaped, sharply acuminate leaves 

 and shorter petioles, and I am now of the opinion that it should 

 be considered specifically distinct. Doctor Copeland notes that 

 on Mount Apo this, with Vaccinium villarii Vid.=y. myrtoides 

 Miq., is the dominant shrub on the upper 200 meters of the 

 mountain, ascending to the summit at an altitude of 2,820 meters. 



