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LEAFLETS or PAILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. Ii. Anr. 22 
acuminate and with involute margins; anthers 5, opposite the 
petals and inserted upon their bases, bilobed at the base, 
triangularly elongated, about 3 mm. long, apiculate, sublaterally 
dehiscing from the apex toward the base, the entire anther 
snugly encased by the petal; pistil glabrous; ovary conical, 
entirely superior; style 3 mm. long, terminated by a minute 
terminal stigma; fruits 1-seeded, striate, subglobose, with ends 
equally compressed, 6 mm. thick. 
Type specimen 10151, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, May, 1908; 
Number 10385 with fruits, collected in June of the same year 
and in the same locality. 
A sparingly branched undershrub, in mossy, humid woods 
at 4250 feet. 
Separated from A. mezii Elm. by the differently nerved 
leaves which, instead of being finely glandular beneath, are 
punetate. 'The flowers and fruits also serve as distinguishing 
characters. 
Ardisia mezii Elm. n. sp, 
A shrub, 3 m. high; bark brown, wood breaking with a 
snap. Leaves scattered along the twigs, chartaceous, lanceo- 
late to oblanceolate but usually oblong, shining dark green 
&bove, much paler beneath, edges subinvolute and entire, 
apex acute but frequently only obtuse, base cuneate or atten- 
uate, the normal blade 15 cm. long, 5.5 em. wide across 
the middle, but the smallest ones much less, flat, the mid- 
vein very prominent beneath, caniculate on the upper surface, 
the lateral ones rather numerous but obscure; petiole about 
2 cm. long, deeply caniculate along the upper side, glabrous. 
Inflorescence dark brick red, glabrous, terminal or subtermi- 
nal, 5 to 10 cm. long, composed of several rather rigid race- 
mose spikes; flowers 5-merous, similarly colored, pendulous, 
usually more numerous toward the ends of the rachis and 
rachilla; pedicels easily detached, leaving annular scars, 4 
mm. long, 1 mm. wide toward the apex, glabrous; calyx 
segments at most 2 mm. long, the lower one third united, 
ovately oblong, the thin margins finely fringed; corolla seg- 
ments barely united, easily detached as a whole, 3 mm. 
