NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 2?1 
nervis utrinque circiter 5, subtus prominentibus ; inflorescentiis axillaribus, 
solitariis, tenuibus, paucifloris, foliis subaequalibus vel brevioribus. 
A suffrutescent plant, the stems creeping or prostrate, rooting, striate, 
glabrous or nearly so, slender, brown, the erect leaf-bearing branches 
densely pubescent with dark-brown, crisped hairs, these branches less 
than 20 cm high, often some roots appearing above the lowermost leaves. 
Leaves pseudo-verticillate, in threes, their petioles 5 mm long or less, 
densely crisped-tomentose, the lamina membranaceous, elliptic or elliptic- 
ovate, 3 to 4 em long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, with scattered, crisped, brown 
hairs on both surfaces, especially on the midrib and nerves, obscurely 
glandular, the apex acute or obtuse, base rounded, margins prominently 
and rather distantly denticulate; nerves about 5 on each side of the 
midrib, prominent beneath, obscurely anastomosing, the reticulations lax, 
obscure. Flowers unknown. Infrutescence axillary, solitary, very slender, 
brown-puberulent, with intermixed longer crisped hairs, the rachis 2 to 2.5 
cm long, bearing near its apex few long-pedicelled fruits, the pedicels 
about 1 cm long, puberulent, each subtended by a narrowly lanceolate 
or linear, acuminate, 2.5 mm long bracteole. Sepals persistent, reflexed 
in fruit, lanceolate, gradually narrowed upward to the acuminate apex, 
about 3 mm long, united for the lower 0.5 mm, more or less brown- 
puberulent, margins obscurely ciliate, very obscurely glandular-punctate. 
Fruit fleshy, globose, 5 to 6 mm in diameter, red, glabrous, tipped with 
the slender, 3 mm long, persistent style; seed globose, 4 mm in diameter. 
Luzon, Province of Pampanga, Mount Abu, Bur. Sci. 1933 Foxworthy, Decem- 
ber 31, 1906, in forested ravines, altitude about 1,360 m. 
A species of the section Bladhia, and apparently closely allied to Ardisia 
pusilla A, DC. (A, villosa Mez, non Roxb.) of Japan, and to A. fabert Hemsl. of 
China. All other species of the section, with one exception, A. metallica N. E. 
Br., of Sumatra, are confined to the Himalayan region, China, and Japan. 
DISCOCALYX Mez. 
Discocalyx insignis sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber circiter 3 m altus; foliis alternis, vix pseudo-verticillatis, 
elliptico-oblongis, usque ad 40 em longis, margine dense denticulatis, basi 
longe decurrento-acuminatis; petiolo 6 ad 9 cm longo; floribus dioicis, 
5-meris, glabris. 
An erect glabrous shrub about 3 m high, the ultimate branchlets 
stout, about 1 cm in diameter. Leaves alternate, not pseudo-verticillate, 
elliptic-oblong, 35 to 40 cm long, 10 to 14 cm wide, chartaceous or sub- 
coriaceous, usually grayish when dry, shining, not glandular-punctate, 
the apex shortly and obscurely blunt-acuminate, the base long-decurrent- 
acuminate, the margins entire in the lower part of the leaf, but above 
the lower one-fourth densely denticulate; nerves about 20 on each side 
of the midrib, prominent, anastomosing, the reticulations distinct, rather 
lax; petiole stout, 6 to 9 cm long. Panicles fascicled at the ends of 
