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the midrib, slender, the lower two pairs from near the base 

 ascending, reaching at least to the upper two-thirds of the leaf ; 

 petioles very stout, reddish-brown, 5 to 8 mm long. Racemes 

 axillary, and sometimes terminating short lateral branches, 2 

 to 4 cm long, the rachis, bracts, pedicels, and calyces more or less 

 pubescent with short spreading hairs ; pedicels 3 to 4 mm long ; 

 bracts persistent, ovate to elliptic-ovate, 5 to 6 mm long, usually 

 acute, sometimes slightly acuminate. Calyx-tube almost obsolete, 

 the lobes triangular, acute, pubescent, 1.5 mm long. Corolla 

 oblong-ovoid, glabrous, narrowed upward, about 6 mm long, 3.5 

 mm in diameter below the middle, red, the lobes short, broadly 

 ovate, recurved. Filaments densely bearded, about 1 mm long; 

 anthers oblong, about 1.1 mm long, the terminal tubes very short, 

 not narrowed, opening by oblique pairs. Style stout, glabrous, 

 3 mm long. Top of the ovary very slightly pubescent. 



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

 33372 Ramos, August 21, 1918, growing on trees on forested 

 slopes near the summit, altitude about 3,100 meters. 



The alliance of this species is manifestly with Vacciriium 

 platyphyllum Merr., from which, among other characters, it is 

 distinguished by its smaller, fewer-nerved leaves, shorter pedi- 

 cels, and only slightly pubescent top of the ovary. 



DIPLYCOSIA Blume 

 DIPLYCOSIA GLABRA sp. nov. 



Frutex epiphyticus, glaber, vel ramulis junioribus parcissime 

 setosis ; foliis ellipticis ad oblong-ellipticis, acutis vel brevissime 

 apiculatis, basi acutis, usque ad 6 cm longis, in siccitate olivaceo- 

 brunneis vel pallidis, nitidis, nervis utrinque 2, tenuibus, supra 

 leviter impressis, subtus obsoletis ; floribus axillaribus, solitariis 

 vel fasciculatis, pedicellatis, bracteolis late ovatis, 1.5 mm longis, 

 margine leviter ciliatis, calycis circiter 2 mm longis, lobis late 

 ovatis, obtusis, 1.5 mm longis. 



A glabrous, erect, epiphytic shrub, attaining a height of from 

 3 to 4 m, the very young branchlets sometimes with a very few 

 slender setae. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 2 to 

 6 cm long, 1 to 2.5 cm wide, brownish-olivaceous or pale when dry, 

 shining, the lower surface with small scattered, brownish glands, 

 the base acute, the apex usually acute and ending in a short, stout, 

 blunt apiculus; lateral nerves 2 on each side of the midrib, 

 slender, slightly impressed on the upper surface, obsolete on the 

 lower surface, curved, the upper pair leaving the midrib at or 

 near the middle of the leaf, the reticulations obsolete; petioles 



