90 ERICACER. [ Vaccinium, 
the cells terminating into stiff tubes nearly twice as long as the 
anthers themselves ; berries the size of a large pea, glabrous, seated 
on the enlarged eyathiform entire apex of the pedicel, crowned by 
the rather stiff calyx-lobes. 
~ a the hill forests of Martaban, above 4,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. 
aren. ' 
8, V, acuminatum, Kz.—An evergreen shrub, apparently 
epiphytical, all parts glabrous, the ‘branchlets angular; leaves 
lanceolate to narrow ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at the base and 
decurrent on the short petiole, 4-6 in. long, long-acuminate, re- 
motely crenate-serrate, thick-chartaceous or coriaceous, glabrous, 
the nerves thin, not united in a marginal nerve; flowers small, 
scarlet, on long, slender, glabrous red pedicels, forming short, glab- 
rous, short-peduncled racemes above the scars of the fallen leaves; 
calyx glabrous, the teeth broadly triangular-acute; corolla oval- 
urceolate, terete, about 2 lin, long or somewhat longer, glabrous, 
the short bluntish lobes reflexed ; filaments nearly as long as the 
slightly granular-wrinkled anthers; anther-cells terminating into 
rather broad tubes of their own length; berries glabrous, crowned 
by the calyx-limb. _ 
Has.—Burma, probably Moulmein hills, 
* * Flowers small, urceolate or urceolate-bell-shaped, on short 
thin pedicels usually not thickened at the apex, forming 
elongate usually \-sided racemes ; corolla usually terete ; 
anther-tubes usually short ; berries globose. 
9. V. pumilum, 
epiphytical shrub, the branchlets pubescent ; leaves oblong to ob- 
long-lanceolate, ona very short puberulous petiole, acute at the 
e, about an- inch long or shorter, bluntish, minutely crenate, 
; leaves of a thinner texture, obovate-cuneate to 
3 os 
purple, glabrous, crowned by the calyx-limb 
var. 2, cuneata 
cuneate, rounded or blunt at the apex ; flowers longer pedicelled. 
