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truncate, the outer upper angles sharp, about 1.5 cm long and 2 
cm wide across the apex. 
Leyte, Dagami, Bur. Sci. 15867 Ramos, August, 1912, in forests near 
the summit of Mount Buraui. 
A characteristic species readily distinguishable by its broad stipules 
and its rather large axillary fascicled flowers, two or three flowers in 
a fascicle, one of which is pistillate and one or two staminate, the former 
shortly pedicelled or subsessile, the latter long and slenderly pedicelled. 
Its alliance seems to be with Begonia robinsonii Merr., which, however, 
it does not greatly resemble. 
ERICACEAE 
Dl PLYCOSI A Blume 
DIPLYCOSI A FASCICULI FLORA sp. nov. 
Species D. parvifoliae affinis, differt floribus fasciculafis, pedi- 
cellis brevioribus, ramis ramulisque glabris, vix setosis. 
Apparently scan dent, probably epiphytic, the branches terete, 
glabrous, dark reddish-brown, the branchlets paler, glabrous, 
not at all setose. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 
dull, 2 to 4 cm long, 1 to 1.5 cm wide, when young with few, 
long, slender, brown, setose hairs on the margins, and scattered 
ones on both surfaces, when mature quite glabrous, the midrib 
prominent, lateral nerves obsolete, base and apex acute; petioles 
2 to 3 mm long, slightly setose. Flowers small, pedicelled, in 
axillary fascicles, up to 8 in each fascicle, the pedicels slender, 
glabrous, 5 mm long or less, the basal bracts small, the apical 
bracteoles very broadly ovate, obscurely acuminate, puberulent. 
Calyx glabrous, somewhat accrescent and 2.5 mm long, the lobes 
triangular, acute, about 1 mm long. Corolla and stamens not 
seen. 
Luzon, Subprovince of Ifugao, Mount Polis, Bur. Sci. 19758 McGregor, 
February 1, 1913. 
A species very similar and manifestly closely allied to Diplycosia parvi- 
folia Merr., of Negros, strongly resembling that species in vegetative 
characters, especially in the obsolete lateral nerves and reticulations. It 
differs from that species, however, in its flowers being fascicled, not 
solitary, its longer pedicels, and somewhat larger leaves. 
VACCINIUM Linnaeus 
VACCINIUM IRIGAENSE sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber, circiter 5 m altus; foliis usque ad 6 cm longis, 
coriaceis, oblongo-obovatis, petiolatis, utrinque angustatis, basi 
acutis, tenuiter 5- vel 7-plinerviis, apice subrostrato-acuminatis ; 
racemis axillaribus, solitariis, usque ad 6 cm longis, multifloris; 
floribus 1 cm longis, oblongis, sursum angustatis, ebracteolatis ; 
filamentis pilosis. 
