330 MERRILL. 
submarginal vein; petioles 1.3 to 3 mm long. Flowers greenish- 
white, axillary, solitary, rarely 2 in an axil, the pedicels about 2 
mm long, the base with two or three, ovate, 0.5 mm long bracts, 
a similar bracteole subtending the flower. Calyx-lobes ovate, 
acute, 1 mm long. Corolla broadly campanulate, about 3 mm 
long, 4 mm in diameter, the throat hairy, the lobes reflexed, ovate, 
obtuse, about 2 mm long. Anthers nearly 1 mm long. Ovary 
subglobose, 1 mm in diameter; style stout, 2 mm long; stigma 
globose. Fruit ovoid-elliptic, about 8 mm long, red when mature. 
Seeds numerous, oblong-ellipsoid, brown, about 8 mm long. 
Luzon, Bengnet Subprovince, Mount Santo Tomas, Williams 1127 (type), 
1068, 923, June and September, 1904; San Fernando Trail, Phil PL 
725 Merrill, May, 1911. 
A species allied to Geniostoma cumingianum Benth., differing in its 
relatively much narrower leaves which are pale, not at all blackish when 
dry, its more prominent nerves which anastomose to form distinct sub- 
marginal veins, and in its solitary, short-pedicelled flowers. 
APOCYNACEAE. 
ALYXIA Banks. 
ALYXIA BLANCOI sp. nov. 
Brabejum lucidum Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 40, non Alyxia lucida 
Wall. 
Frutex scandens, glaber, ramis teretibus, ramulis 4-angulatis; 
foliis lanceolatis vel oblanceolatis, coriaceis, nitidis, 3.5 ad 5 cm 
longis, verticillatis, obtusis, breviter petiolatis ; f ructibus ovoideis 
vel subglobosis, 1 cm longis, crasse apiculatis. 
A scandent glabrous shrub, aromatic in drying. Branches 
slender, terete, grayish or brownish, the branchlets distinctly 
4-angled, the intemodes on the branchlets 5 to 12 mm long. 
Leaves whorled, 3, rarely 4 at each node, lanceolate or obanceo- 
late, coriaceous, shining, 3.5 to 5 cm long, 6 to 10 mm wide, the 
margins recurved, base acute, apex obtuse or subacute; lateral 
nerves very obscure; petioles 1.5 to 2.5 mm long. Flowers 
unknown. Fruit ovoid or subglobose, not moniliform, about 
1 cm long, with a thick apiculate point, yellow when fresh. 
Cebu, in thickets on dry hills back of the City of Cebu, Bur. Sci. 11118 
Ramos, March, 1912. 
F. Villar reduced Blanco's species to Alyxis stellata R. & S., which was 
undoubtedly an error. Vidal referred Alyxia stellata F.-Vill. to his A. mon- 
ilifera, but correctly excluded the reference to Blanco. In my paper on 
the determination of Blanco's species " I followed F.-Villar in his reduction 
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Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 27 (1905) 58. 
