DecemBer 14, 1908] Tarek Scorm or New PLANTS 487 
seeds 1 in each cell, 2.5 mm. in diameter, globose, black, 
1 smooth, conspicuously wrinkled. 
Type specimen 7335, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. 
At once distinguished from C. indicum Linn. by its glab- 
| rous not grooved capsules. Neither must it be confused with 
the narrow leaved scandent species, C. elangatum Merr. 
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-ANTIDESMA Linn. 
Antidesma microcarpum Elm. n. sp. 
| Slender, 3 to 5 m. high shrub, with rather soft whitish 
wood and smoothish gray or mottled bark; branches lax, reclin- 
ing, smooth, whitish toward the ends. Leaves subchartaceous 
| or submembranous, alternatingly scattered, lucid dark green 
; above and usually conduplicate, with recurved tips, descend- 
4 ing, lighter green beneath, glabrous, entire, gradually taper- 
ing into an acute to acuminate rather blunt apex, 10 cm. 
= long, 5 cm. wide across the middle, but frequently larger 
or much smaller, ovately oblong, base mostly rounded, oc- 
casionally inequilateral; petiole about 1 to 2 cm. long, glab- 
rous, swollen and grayish white both at the apex and the 
base on the under side, caniculate on the upper side; bud 
bracts 3 mm. long, acuminate, yellowish pubescent; midvein 
very prominent beneath, terminating the apex, the lateral 5 
to 7 pairs much ascending and anastomosing, the numerous 
reticulations conspicuous beneath. Infrutescence terminal, axil- 
lary or lateral, few branched, not exceeding 5 cm. in length; 
branchlets strict, ascending, averaging 3 cm. in length, green, 
covered with short yellowish hairs; subpersistent calyx ses- 
sile or short pedicellate, subtended by solitary puberulent and 
| persistent bracts, turbinate, 1 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide across 
e the ciliate rim; drupe subglobose, subsessile, pale white, pink 
z and finally turning to a dull ashy gray or blue, 2.5 mm. | 
in diameter, bearing a subsessile terminal 4-cleft pistil; uh ae 
solitary, divided longitudinally by a ridge. _ | 2 
Type specimen 9668, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Üoéthob. Pos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 1908. — 
Rare. Discovered on a wooded cliff along the Bonyao 
