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Bpecific name. Don's description, however, does not agree very well with Wight's 

 figure. As a specific name Sprengelii is somewhat involved. There is a Vac- 

 cinium Sprengelii Wallich, Cat. No. 6296 which is referred to Agapetes obovata by 

 Clarke and the Index Kewensis. Also a Vaccinium Sprengelii Hort. which is re- 

 ferred to V. Myrsiniiis in the Index Kewensis. As there would appear to be some 

 doubt, if Don's Agapetes Sprengelii is identical with Wight's Vaccinium Donianum, 

 and as the name Sprengelii is connected with two other plants of this group it ap- 

 pears to us best to retain Wight's name for the species as was done by Clarke 

 (1. c.) and in the Index Kewensis. 



Vaccinium Donianum, var. laetimi Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 

 Vaccinium laetum Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 516 (1900). 



Western Szech'uan : Kiating Fu, thickets, alt. 300 m., May 1908 

 (No. 2707; bush 2-3 m., flowers white); without precise locahty, 

 banks of Yangtsze river, May 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 3918); without 

 locahty, alt. 1500 m.. May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3918^). 



The rather small, sharply serrate leaves, short racemes and twiggy branches 

 distinguish this variety which, however, is very near some of the extreme forms 

 of the type. It is a low-level and a rather uncommon plant. 



Vaccinium Carlesii Dunn resembles this variety but has a much smaller and a 

 differently shaped corolla. 



Vaccinium iteophyllum Hance in Ann. Sci. Nat. s^r. 4, XVIII. 223 

 (1862). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 15 (1889). — Dunn & 

 Tutcher in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform, add. ser. X. 153 {Fl. Kwangtung 

 & Hongkong) (1912). 



Fokien: without locality, 1905, Dunn's Exped. (Herb. Bot. Gard. 

 Hongkong, No. 2877). Yunnan: Szemao, forests, alt. 1600 m., 

 A. Henry (Nos. 11648, 11648'*). 



In Henry's specimens the leaves are only shghtly and irregularly serrate. 



Vaccinium iteophyllum, var. fragrans Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 



A typo recedit foliis oblanceolatis v. rarius lanceolatis, 6-10 cm. 

 longis et 2.5-3.5 cm. latis leviter et remote serrulatis subtus sparsius 

 pubescentibus demum glabrescentibus, inflorescentia sparsius pu- 

 bescente, antheris aristatis. 



Western Hupeh : Hsing-shan Hsien, alt. 1000-1300 m,, rare, 

 June 4, 1907 (No. 2704; bush 2.5 m. tall, flowers snow-white, fragrant). 



The larger, very slightly toothed leaves and aristate anthers distinguish this 

 variety. 



Vaccinium bracteatum Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 156 (1784). — De Can- 

 dolle, Prodr. VII. 573 (1839). — Siebold & Zuccarini in Ahh. Akad. 



