338 MERRILL. 
red, oblong, when young gray-puberulent, soon becoming quite 
glabrous, 2 to 3.5 cm long, 1.2 to 1,5 cm wide, curved, slightly 
keeled down the back, rather distinctly winged or broadly keeled 
down the suture, with two intermediate keels along the sides. 
Seeds about 15, irregularly triangular-ovoid, not or but very 
slightly sulcate. 
Mindanao, Butuan Subprovince, Cabadbaran, Weber, April, 1911 (type), 
in clearings, altitude about 15 m, Piper 287, 3^5, April, 1911. 
A species strongly characterized by its sessile leaves which are broad 
and cordate at the base. 
VERBENACEAE. 
CALLICARPA L. 
CALLICARPA ELEGANS Hayek in Just's Bot. Jahresb. 33 (1905) 8. 
This species was based on Cuming 11^60, a specimen of which is in 
the herbarium of the Bureau of Science; according to Cuming's own list 
of localities, the above number was collected in the Province of Camarines 
Sur, Luzon. The species appears to be quite widely distributed in the 
northern Philippines, and is also represented by the following specimens: 
Luzon, Province of Abra, Mount Paraga, Bur. Sci. 705^ Ramos, Feb- 
ruary, 1909: Province of Ilocos Norte, Mount Piao, For. Bur. 1399U Merritt 
& Darling: Province of Zambales, Subic, Hallier, January, 1904; Cande- 
laria, Bur. Sci. U815 Ramos, December, 1907; Cabiluagan, For. Bur. 7018 
Curran, May, 1907: Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Williams 3^0, De- 
cember, 1903. MiNDORO, south-west of Lake Naujan, For. Bur. 6725 Mer- 
ritt, April, 1907. 
Endemic. 
CALLICARPA CAULIFLORA sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, ramulis quadrangularibus stellato-plumoso- 
pilosis glandulosisque ; foliis amplis, chartaceis, oblongo-ellipticis, 
acuminatis, usque ad 35 cm longis, leviter irregulariter denticu- 
latis vel subintegris, supra glabris, subtus glandulosis, ad costa 
nervosque plus minusve stellato-pilosis ; inflorescentiis fascicu- 
latis, caulifloris; floribus 4-meris, pedicellatis; corolla circiter 
7 mm longa. 
A small tree, the branchlets quadrangular, rather stout, rather 
densely covered with brownish plumose-stellate hairs and also 
yellow-glandular. Leaves chartaceous, oblong-elliptic, 30 to 35 
cm long, 9 to 13 cm wide, the apex slenderly and sharply acu- 
minate, the base gradually narrowed, margins distantly and 
irregularly denticulate or subentire, the upper surface glabrous, 
the lower one somewhat paler, yellow-glandular, sparingly 
stellate-pilose on the midrib, nerves, and reticulations, the hairs 
often plumose; primary nerves about 14 on each side of the 
midrib, prominent beneath, anastomosing, the reticulations prom- 
