er een el a 
214 MERRILL. 
times nearly obsolete ; petioles'5 mm long or less. Racemes in the upper 
axils, solitary, stout, 5 to 10 em long, only the upper third flower-bearing, 
this portion of the rachis densely covered with scars and pedicels, the 
latter 1 to 2 cm long. Flowers pink or purplish, 5-merous, comparatively 
large. Calyx about 8 mm in diameter, the lobes united for the lower 
one-third or one-half, about 3 mm wide, elliptic-ovate or ovate, apex 
slightly emarginate, all parts densely glandular, the margins minutely 
ciliate. Corolla-tube about 2 mm long, the lobes ovate or broadly 
oblong-ovate, about 13 mm long, 7 mm wide, somewhat acuminate, the 
acumen obtuse, glandular-punctate. Anthers about 6.5 mm long, slightly 
apiculate-acuminate, with few large glands on the back, the cells not 
septate or rugose, the filaments about 2 mm long. Ovary ovoid; style 
about 1 em long, obscurely glandular. Fruit globose or depressed- 
globose, about 8 mm in diameter, violet when mature, said to be edible. 
BATANES ISLANDS, Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, Bur. Sci. 3589 Fénia 
(type), Bur, Sci. 3214, 3216 Mearns. BapuyANes ISLANDS, Fuga, Bur. Sci. 3245 
Mearns. 
This species is manifestly allied to Ardisia humilis Vahl, A. botssieri A. DC., 
and A. littoralis Andr., but is at once distinguishable from all by its racemosely 
disposed flowers, these being crowded along the upper one-third of the racemes 
and not umbellately arranged at the ends of the branches. Other distinguishing 
characters are its comparatively large flowers and its emarginate sepals. The 
material on which the above species is based, was previously referred by me to 
Ardisia humilis Vahl.2 Local name pain. 
_ Ardisia curranii sp. nov. § Tinopsis. 
Arbor glabra, circiter 15 m alta; foliis pseudoverticillatis, coriaceis, 
oblongis vel late oblongo-lanceolatis, breviter acuminatis, nervis num- 
crosis, patulis, vix distinctis; paniculis terminalibus, quam folia multo 
longioribus; sepalis pubescentibus, punctatis, margine ciliatis; ovario 
puberulo. ; 
A glabrous tree about 15 m high. Branches terete, striate, light-gray, 
rather stout. Leaves alternate, somewhat pseudo-verticillately crowded 
at the apices of the branchlets, oblong to broadly oblong-lanceolate, 
coriaceous, brown when dry, entire, 15 to 20 cm long, 5 to 7 cm wide, 
dull or slightly shining, the apex shortly and broadly acuminate, the 
base somewhat decurrent-acuminate, scarcely glandular-punctate, or very 
minutely and obscurely so; nerves 25 to 30 on each side of the midrib, 
obscure, spreading, scarcely anastomosing, the reticulations obsolete ; 
petioles 2.5 to 3 cm long. Panicles terminal, about 30 cm long, somewhat 
narrowly pyramidal, the lower branches 15 cm in length, the flowers 
racemosely disposed on the ultimate branchlets, their pedicels 1: to 2 cm 
long. Calyx about 4.5 mm in diameter, ferruginous-pubescent outside, 
®This Journal 3 (1908) Botany 425. 
