Vaccinium. | VACCINIACEAE. 271 
In foresis of 1000—4000 ft. of elevation, chiefly of Oahu! The bagi ” ig a 
is not always pointed or cuspidate, as Gray was led to believe, but rary 
: oftener obtuse. Misled by this fallacious character, Gray united with V. areca the 
ssid Se 
B var. gemmaceum. — Tall, 6—12 ft. in height. Leaves broadly oblong 
or obovate, 2—4/ % 1'/2—2‘, on petioles of 1—2“, dentate or ONT 
Rittaccond to membranous, the young leaves af eS along the 
and quite flaccid. Flowers generally all from the axils of bud- pitt 3 at 
the base of a branch, on nodding pedicels of 1—1'/2‘. Calycine lobes 
broadly lanceolate or ovate, half the length of the corolla or more. 
Stamens almost as long as the corolla; the anthers obtuse at the base 
or shortly pointed, with awns almost obsolete. — V. Te Klotzsch, 
in Linnaea, XXIV, 59. — V. reticulatum, var. «, Waw 
In dense forests at heights of . s 4000 ft. It is only this ey iene produces 
the tall arborescent plants spoken by the naturalists of the U. 8. t urs 
chiefly on Kauai!, but I have eebadh it also on most of the inde fae 
{ var. calycinum. — Low terrestrial, 1—3 ft. high. Leaves thin chart 
ceous, oblong or lanceolate, little smaller than in «a, shortly PNG 
Calycine lobes narrow lanceolate, acute. Otherwise as in « V. caly- 
cinum, _ and probably also V. dentatum, Sm. 
On grassy slopes or open glades in forests of low elevation. In specimens from W. 
Ma “its ve nd oo ee shortly pointed at the base, but quite obtuse in exactly similar 
ones from Mo 
é var. — aoe and leaves of 7, but the calyx-lobes broad and rather 
Ovately obtuse, shorter than their tube, almost as in V. reticulatum. 
Hawaii! woods of Hilo and Hamakua. 
2. V. reticulatum, Smith, in Rees, Cyclop. no. 30. — Don, Gen. Syst. ILL, 
857. — A low erect shrub, 1—2 ft. high, the stiff crowded branches 
angular and densely seit puberulous when young. Leaves coriaceous, 
closely areolate, with nerves prominent on both faces, puberulous when 
young, on very short use Ma of 1/4—1/2", paren to obovate to suborbicu- 
lar, %/s—1' >< '/2—3/,/, obtuse, often rounded and mucronate, minutely 
of the corolla, the anthers much longer than the filaments, quite obtuse 
at the Protru ding base, shortly 2-awned at the back, their divergent tubes 
g the cells in length. Style as long as the corolla. Berry globose, 
+5", a rose or yellow, covered with a waxy bloom. — Gray, 1. c. — 
Wawra, 1. s to var. 3 and ¢. — V. cereum, Ch. & Schl, in ue I 
527. ilies rE Hook: Je. Pl. tab. 87. — V. Macraeanum, Klotzsch, 1. c. 
