ERICACEAE. — VACCINIUM 561 



October 1910 (No. 4320; shrub GO-75 cm. tall, fruit purple-black); 

 without locaUty, alt. 2600 m., July 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 3914). 



This species is very common as an epiphyte on old trees, and is also frequently 

 found growing on humus-clad rocks and cliffs. In our specimens the flowers are 

 rose-pink, the leaves are cuneate at the base and the plants grow to a larger size 

 than those described by Franchet. 



In this subgenus also belongs the following undescribed species: 



Vaccinium viburnoides Rehdor & Wilson, n. sp. 



Frutex 30-60 cm. altus ramis crassiusculis; ramuli homotini leviter angulati, 

 initio sparse puberuli, mox glabri, annotini flavido-cinerei, vetustiores brunneo- 

 grisei, lenticellati. Folia coriacea, ovalia v. obovata v. elliptica, acutiuscula v. 

 rotundata, basi late cuneata, crenato-serrulata dentibus adpressis mucrone calloso 

 incurvo, saepe infra medium Integra, 3.5-5.5 longa et 2-3 cm. lata, supra laete viridia, 

 nitentia rugulosa, ad costam mediam puberula, subtus pallidiora, glabra, nervis 

 utrinsecus 5-6, ut costa supra impressis subtus elevatis; petioli crassi, 3-4 mm. 

 longi, interdum puberuli. Racemi terminales et axillares in apice ramulorum con- 

 gest!, breves, 5-8-flori; rhachis crassiuscula, puberula, 8-12 mm. longa; bracteae 

 deciduae, membranaceae coloratae, late ovales v. ovatae 7-8 mm. longae, acutae 

 v. obtusae, ciliolatae; bracteolae similes, sed minores, deciduae; pedicelli 3-5 mm. 

 longi, glabri; calyx glaber tubo hemisphaerico, lobis latissimis rotundatis circiter 

 0.7 mm. longis ciliolatis; corolla urceolata, circiter 6 mm. longa, salmoneo-rosea, 

 extus intusque glabra, lobis minutis recurvis intus puberulis; stamina corolla 

 breviora, filamentis basi dilatatis pilosis, antheris 2.5 mm. longis dorso breviter 

 bicalcaratis; stylus stamina superans, inclusus, glaber, rectus, cylindricus, stigmate 

 leviter capitato. Fructus maturus desideratur. 



Western Szech'uan: without precise locality, July 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 

 3923). 



This is a very distinct species and is not closely related to any Chinese or Indian 

 species. Its nearest relative is perhaps the variable Vaccinium Leschenaultii 

 Wight which, however, is a much taller growing plant with less coriaceous leaves, 

 thinner branches, longer racemes, shorter pedicels, and rather differently shaped 

 flowers and calyx-teeth. 



Vaccinium viburnoides is a very rare plant, having been collected only once. 



Also the recently described Vucciniuyn Wardii Adamson (in Jour. Hot. LI. 130 

 [1913]) belongs according to its author in this subgenus, but we suspect that it is 

 not a Vaccinium at all, but identical with or very near to Gaulthcria Veitchiana 

 Craib with which the rather unsatisfactory description fairly well agrees. 



Subgen. EUVACCINIUM A. Gray. 



Vaccinium Henryi Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 15 (1889). — 

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



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, woods, alt. 1000-1600 m., 

 September 1907 (No. 2703; bush 1-3 m. tall, fruit black); without 

 locaHty, July 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 1491); without locality, A. 

 Henry (Nos. 4826, 6829, 6623, 5911, 4703, 7937). 



This plant is fairly common in oak woods in western Hupeh. 



