Novemprr 7, 1908] Six New MYRSINACEAE 443 
ments brown pulverulent, margins thin and lighter brown, 
about 1 mm. long, obtuse, ovately triangular; flowers not seen. 
Type specimen 9097, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 
Only one plant was seen on a dry wooded ridge on Mount 
Banahao at 2750 feet. Strongly resembling certain species 
of Psychotria. 
Not having flowering specimens there still remains some 
doubt as to its rightful genus. 
Discocalyx montana Elm. n. sp. 
Erect, sparingly branched shrub, about 4 m. high; bark 
grayish; wood soft with a large brown pith. Leaves rigid, 
clustered at the ends of the thick branchlets, ascending, strong- 
ly conduplicate on the ventral side, deciduous, leaving large 
scars, mostly oblanceolate, the average blade 2 dm. long by 
6 cm. wide, apex acute, base slenderly attenuate, glabrous, 
margins above the middle usually apiculate to finely dentate; 
petiole 4 to 7 cm. long, rather rigid, glabrous, caniculate on 
the upper side; nerves pinnate, 14 to 19 main pairs with as 
many secondary pairs, ascending, prominent beneath, especially 
the midrib, reticulations fine and also conspicuous beneath. 
Infrutescence ascending, from the lower leaf axils, always 
shorter than the foliage; main peduncle variable in length, 
rigid, more or less flattened; secondary peduncles subtended 
by deciduous foliaceous bracts, radially spreading, 4 to 7 cm. 
long, glabrous, reddish; pedicels divaricate, of the same color, 
3 to 5 mm. long, bearing from 1 to 3 berries; persistent calyx 
united at the base, 4 mm. across, roundly 5.segmented; ber- 
ries light red, soon turning wine color, rather smooth, 5 mm. 
in diameter or larger when fully grown, globose. 
Type specimen 8816, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. : 
Not rare but oaly observed in shrubberies of the limestone 
regions. It is quite variable. More recently it has been col- 
lected on Mount Banahao where it is rare, and also on Mindoro. 
Major E. A. Mearns collected this same species in flower 
in Benguet province, Luzon, July, 1907 (Forestry Bureau record 
3490). In these flowers the 5 sepals and 5 petals are glabrous 
