Abstract: Abstract In June 1984, we found a new Vacciniun in the mountain slope of Fenyi, Jiangxi Province. It is very similar to V.bracieaium Thunb., but possesses pinkish flowers with narrower corolla tube. But these two discriminating characters are not easily discernible on the herbarium specimens. Since they occur together in the same niche, they are probably very similar in ecological preferences. A mass collection of a population was carried out in transect covering a space of 20 X 50 meters on the mountain slope. Quantitative measurements of two chara-cters, namely, the diameter of corolla tube and the number of flowers per inflo-rescence, were made, and the resulting data were treated statistically together with the colors of flower by methods of pictorialized scatter diagram ( Fig. 1 ) nnd standard deviation (Fig. 2). An analysis of these diagrams indicates that the diameters of corolla tube of the two taxa, though somewhat overlap, have different tendencies in variation pattern.

Key words: Vaccinium bracteatum var. rubellum

摘要： 1984年月我4年6月，我们在江西分宜中国林业科学院大岗山实验局树木园意外地发现了一种花呈水红色而非白色的南烛Vaccinium bracteatum Thunb，而且花冠筒也比南烛窄些，在野外是容易把它同南烛区分开的。但这些鉴别性状在蜡叶标本上就不那么显而易见了。这种淡红南烛在丘陵山坡灌丛中与白花的南烛混杂生长，两者生态爱好可能非常相似.

关键词: 淡红南烛