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VACCINIUM Linn. 
Vaccinium microphyllum Blunie. Bijdi'. (1.S20) 851; j\liq. FI. Ind. Bat. 2 
(185(i) 1063. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Mount Apo (1037, 1417 Copeland) April, October. 
1904. A terrestrial shrub on the wind-swept summit 2, GOO to 3,000 in., the shoots 
not ascending more than 10 cm. from the ground except in the more slieltered 
places. 
VaociHvuni mict'ophylhnn Blume, was described from a specimen in Reinwardt’s 
lierbarinin from the mauntains of Celebes, the original description being very 
short, but applying eloselj' to the specimens cited above. A specimen of No. 1417 
Copeland was sent to Dr. Treub, director of the Botanical Garden at Buitenzorg, 
Java, for verification of the above identification. Dr. Valeton, who examined 
the material, states that there is no authentic specimen of Taocinium microphijlhun 
in the herbarium at Buitenzorg, but that there is a sterile specimen collected by 
Teysmann in Termite and identified as V. microphyllum by Scheffer, with which 
the Alount Apo plant agrees, except that the leaves of the latter are somewhat 
smaller than in the Ternate plant. The Mount Apo plant is apparently quite dif- 
ferent from the species described by Beccari “ and Clarke™ as Diplycosia micro- 
phylla (Blume) Becc., and by King and Gamble as Vaccinium microphyllum, 
Blume, but I am of the opinion that Blume’s description applies more closely 
to the Mount Apo plant than to the descriptions of Alalayan Peninsula and 
Bornean material bj' the authors cited above. According to Valeton, the .spe- 
cimen reported from Celebes by Koorders ™ as Vaccinium microphyllum “Reinw.,” 
is not Blume’s species, the flowers being racemose in Koorders’s specimens. 
PKIMULACE.3^. 
LYSIMACHIA Linn. 
Lysimachia microphylla Alerrill sp. nov. % Lerouxiu. 
A small ascending nnifonnlj'' and rather strongly hirsute-pubescent 
annual 5 cm. high or less, with opposite, petioled, glandular-punctate, 
obtuse or rounded leaves and short pediceled yellow flowers. Stems 
slender, densely hirsute-pulieseent witli ])ale spreading hairs, simple or 
slightly branched from the base. Leaves opposite, orbicular-ovate to 
ovate, sometimes subreniform-orliicular, 5 to 7 mm. long, often nearly as 
wide, the apex rounded or blunt, the liase sulitruncate to acute, glandular 
punctate, uniformly hirsute-pubescent on lioth surfaces; petioles 1.5 to 
2 mm. long, pubescent. Flowers solitary in the upper axils, the pedicels 
puliescent, aliout 2 mm. long. Calyx cleft nearly to the liase, the lobes 
linear-lanceolate, slightly acuminate, about 3.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, 
glandular punctate, strigose pubescent outside. Corolla yellow, 3.5 mm. 
long, glalji'ous, the tube less than 1 mm. long, the lobes elliptical-ovate to 
elliptical-ol)long, olituse or acute, glandular punctate. Filaments 1.5 
Malesia (1878), 1, 212. 
-'‘Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. (1882), 3, 450. 
Mat. FI. Mai. Fenin. (1905) , 3, 273. 
--Mrded. ’s Lands Plant. (1898), 19, 514. 
