XIV, 4 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XV 443 
about 2mm long. Flowers axillary, solitary or few in a fascicle, 
their pedicels about 5 mm long, the apical bracteoles connate, 
broadly ovate, acute or slightly acuminate, margins sparingly 
ciliate, 1.5 mm long. Calyx about 2 mm long, the lobes broadly 
ovate, obtuse, 1.5 mm long, their margins slightly ciliate. Corolla 
not seen. Fruit soft, fleshy, bluish-black, when dry brownish or 
black, about 5 mm long. 
LUZON, Benguet Subprovince, Pauai, Bur. Sct. 31784 Santos 
April. 22, 1918 (type), Bur. Sci. 8509 McGregor, June, 1909, 
For. Bur. 14434 Darling, January, 1909, Copeland, s. n., May, 
1913, in the mossy forest, altitude about 2,300 meters. Igorot 
name dugui-is. 
Among the Philippine species this is most closely allied to 
Diplycosia calelanensis Elm., from which it is readily distin- 
guished by its nerves being obsolete on the lower surface of the 
leaves. Among the extra-Philippine species its alliance is mani- 
festly with the Javan Diplycosia heterophylla Blume, but its 
leaves are different in shape, never acuminate, with shorter 
petioles, while the venation is distinctly different. 
MYRSINACEAE 
ARDISIA Swartz 
ARDISIA ILOCANA sp. nov. § Akosmos. 
Frutex, ramulis inflorescentiisque castaneo-pubescentibus ex- 
ceptis glaber; foliis oblongis, membranaceis ad chartaceis, 6 ad 
12 cm longis, basi acutis, apice leviter acuminatis, integris, 
utrinque glandulis perspicuis instructis, nervis utrinque 15 ad 
20, tenuibus, subobscuris, reticulis obsoletis ; inflorescentiis bipin- 
natim paniculatis, 8 ad 10 cm longis, pedunculatis, plerumque e 
axillis defoliatis; floribus racemose dispositis, circiter 8 mm 
diametro, calycis lobis orbicularibus, leviter ciliatis, petalis punc- 
tato-glandulosis, leviter acuminatis. 
An erect shrub, the branchlets and inflorescences distinctly 
castaneous-pubescent, otherwise glabrous. Leaves oblong, mem- 
branaceous to chartaceous, 6 to 12 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, 
base acute, apex somewhat acuminate, somewhat olivaceous and 
slightly shining when dry, both surfaces with numerous, rela- 
tively large glands which are distinctly visible to the naked eye 
and which occur at fairly regular intervals on all parts of the leaf; 
lateral nerves 15 to 20 on each side of the midrib, very slender, 
not prominent, obscurely anastomosing, the reticulations obso- 
lete or nearly so; petioles pubescent when young, soon becoming 
