NEW PHILIPPINE PLANTS. 
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dark-reddish-brown, glabrous. Leaves elliptical-oblong, 9 to 16 cm long, 
4.5 to 8 cm wide, subcoriaceous, shining, somewhat paler beneath, entirely 
glabrous above, beneath with numerous scattered small lepidote glands, 
the base acute, the apex usually broad, rounded, rarely subacute or ob- 
scurely acuminate; nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, not 
prominent, somewhat ascending, reticulating; petioles stout, 1 to 1.5 cm 
long. Flowers orange-colored, 5 to 10 or more at the apices of the 
branches on a short stout rachis, the buds covered by numerous mem- 
branous, shining, deciduous, elliptical bracts about 3 cm long, forming 
ellipsoid heads 3 to 3.5 cm long; pedicels glabrous, 2 to 3 cm long. Calyx 
disciform, 5-toothed. Corolla glabrous, 4.5 to 5 cm long and wide, the 
tube 'about 2 cm long, somewhat broadened upwards, the lobes 2.5 cm long, 
2 cm wide, elliptical-obovate, rounded. Stamens 10; filaments 2.5 to 2.8 
cm long, more or less pilose below, glabrous above: anthers 5.5 to 7 mm 
long. Ovary oblong, glabrous, 5 mm long, 5-celled ; style glabrous, 1 cm 
long ; stigma capitate, 2 mm in diameter. Immature fruit glabrous. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keitliley, Mrs. Clemens 732, October, 1906, also 
without numbers, November, 1906, and October, 1907. 
A species characterized by its orange flowers, oblong-elliptical obtuse leaves, 
which are but slightly lepidote beneath, its glabrous ovaries, etc. 
VACCINIUM Linn. 
Vaccinium lanaense Merrill sp. nov. 
Arbor vel arbuscula, glabra, epiphytica; foliis coriaceis, ovatis vel 
oblongo-ovatis, 6 ad II cm longis, acuminatis, basi valde 5-7-nerviis; 
floribus axillaribus, fasciculatis, parvis, corolla ca. 2 mm longa, cylindrica, 
glabra; fructibus ovoideis, 4—5 mm diam. 
An epiphytic shrub or tree, glabrous throughout, the branches light- 
gray or pale-brown, terete. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, rarely ovate- 
lanceolate, 6 to 7 cm long, 2 to 6 cm wide, coriaceous, shining, apex 
rather strongly acuminate, base rounded to subacute, the margins entire, 
somewhat revolute; nerves basal or subbasal, prominent, 5, sometimes 
with an additional submarginal pair, the interior pair leaving the midrib 
shortly above the base and extending nearly to the apex of the leaf, the 
reticulations obscure; petioles stout, about 3 mm long. Flowers in axil- 
lary 2- to 5-flowered fascicles, the pedicels glabrous, 3 to 4 mm long, each 
subtended by a pair of small somewhat sheathing bracteoles. Calyx gla- 
brous, 2 to 2.5 mm long, the limb short, somewhat spreading, the lobes 
broadly orbicular-ovate, acute or acuminate, about 0.7 mm long. Corolla 
glabrous, cylindrical, short, 2.5 mm long or less, the teeth broadly ovate, 
about 1 mm long. Stamens 10 ; filaments 1.5 mm long or less, slightly 
hirsute, the anthers about 1.2 mm long. Style glabrous, deciduous, 2 mm 
long; stigma capitate. Fruit ovoid, glabrous, 4 to 5 mm in diameter. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keitliley, Mrs. Clemens £81, March and June, 
1906, also without numbers, September-Octoher, 1906, September, 1907, and 
October, 1907. 
