Frpruary 15, 1909] A Score or New PLANTS 579 
short and pubescent pedicels, less than 1.5 cm. long, hard, 
smooth, except for the small lenticels, ellipsoid, crimson red; 
calyx persistent, rim like, 4 mm. across; seed solitary, in 
the center of the thick white pericarp. 
Type specimen 9787, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, April, 
1908. 
Discovered in a deep wooded ravine at 2000 feet. The 
natives call it “‘Guisok-na-dako’’. 
Possibly it should be referred to Pygeum, but the shape 
of the fruit and especially the thick and dry pericarp place it 
with Parinarium. 
SABIACE. 
SABIA Coleb. 
Sabia reticulata Elm. n. sp. 
Scandent and numerously branched; stems smooth and brown, 
1.5 cm. long, tough; twigs slender and glabrous. Foliage 
nearly flat, descending, with recurved tips, dry and subscarious, 
very lucid deep green on the upper side, much paler beneath and 
blackish’ especially along the nerves and reticulations, lan- 
ceolate or oblongish lanceolate, alternate, exceedingly  va- 
riable in size, much reduced toward the ends of the twigs, 
glabrous, the average blades 10 em. long, 3.5 cm. wide, base 
short obtuse or rounded, apex acute to subacuminate, the 
entire margins usually rugose; nerves very prominent beneath, 
the 3 to 5 main lateral pairs united one third from the 
margin, reticulations numerous and conspicuous; petiole 1 cm. 
long, glabrous, grooved on the upper side, smooth at first, — 
becoming seurfy with age. Racemes ascending from the leaf - 
axils, yellowish green, glabrous, varying from 3 to 18 em. 
in length, usually more numerous toward the ends of ii — 
twigs; peduncle strict, ascending, less than 1 em. long,  - 
at the base provided with a callous excrescence, bearing _ 
1 to 3 greenish white and odorless flowers; pedicels glab- 
rous, about 5 mm. long, strict, provided with a solitary 
bract; bract oblong, elliptic, 2 mm. long, glabrous but with 
ciliate margins; wA HON 1.5: mm. FN vios its 5 
