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152 ^'/le Philippine Journal of Science wis 



ARALIACEAE 



DENDROPANAX Decaisne & Planchon 

 DENDROPANAX ACUMINATISSIMUM sp. nov. 



Frutex glaber, 3 ad 4 m altus ; f oliis lanceolatis ad anguste lan- 

 ceolatis, usque ad 11 cm longis, tenuiter caudato-acuminatis, basi 

 acutis, integris, nervis utrinque 10 ad 12, tenuibus, indistinctis, 

 anastomosantibus ; umbellis terminalibus, solitariis vel trinis, 

 breviter pedunculatis, subpaucifloris ; floribus 5-meris, circiter 

 5.5 mm longis. 



A slender, erect, glabrous shrub, 3 to 4 m high, the branches 

 and branchlets terete, somewhat brownish, the latter smooth. 

 Leaves scattered, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, firmly charta- 

 ceous to subcoriaceous, rather pale-olivaceous when dry, 7 to 11 

 cm long, 1 to 2 cm wide, entire, base acute, narrowed above into 

 the slenderly caudate-acuminate apex ; lateral nerves 10 to 13 on 

 each side of the midrib, slender, spreading-ascending, anasto- 

 mosing, indistinct; petioles 1 to 3.5 cm long. Umbels terminal, 

 solitary or in threes, about 2 cm in diameter in anthesis, their 

 peduncles 5 to 10 mm long, 10- to 15 -flowered, the bracteoles 

 linear, 2 to 8 mm long, deciduous, the pedicels about 6 mm long. 

 Calyx green, cup-shaped, about 3 mm long, its margin 5-denticu- 

 late. Petals 5, white, ovate to oblong-ovate, 2.5 mm long. Fila- 

 ments about 2 mm long. Ovary 5-celled ; style stout, furrowed, 

 somewhat narrowed upward, about 1.3 mm long. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10SJ7 

 (type), Levine 1S15, August 24, 1917, from the same plant. 



This species occurs on steep forested slopes of damp ravines, altitude 

 800 to 1,000 meters, and is very rare, as only a few specimens were 

 observed in several weeks' work on Loh Fau Mountain. It is well char- 

 acterized by its very narrow, lanceolate, slenderly acuminate leaves 

 which are not at all 3-nerved or 3-plinerved at the base. Dendropanax 

 japonicum Seem, is abundant on open slopes on Loh Fau Mountain, while 

 what I take to be D. proteum Benth. also occurs in similar habitats. 



ERICACEAE 



VACCINIUM Linnaeus 

 VACCINIUM HANCOCKIAE sp. nov. 



Frutex 2 ad 3 m altus, glaber; f oliis coriaceis, oblongo-ovatis 

 ad oblongo-lanceolatis, in siccitate brunneo-olivaceis, nitidis, us- 

 que ad 5 cm longis, acuminatis, basi acutis, margine cartilagineis, 

 distanter serrulatis, nervis utrinque circiter 5, tenuibus, anasto- 

 mosantibus ; racemis in axillis superioribus, circiter 2 cm longis, 

 bracteolis oblongo-ovatis, circiter 1 mm longis ; floribus subcylin- 

 draceis, circiter 7 mm longis, sursum leviter angustatis; calycis 



