Frarvary l5, 1909] A Score or New PLANTS 587 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, June, 
1908. 
Rare, in dense woods at 4500 feet. Very floriferous, the 
individual flowers subpendulous and entirely odorless. 
As to the known Philippine species it is quite similar 
to L. luzonica (Blm.) F. Vil. based upon 1479 Cuming. The 
inflorescence of our specimen is chiefly beneath the leaves, 
not axillary, and the leaf nerves in the dry state are deep 
brown. The brown adpressed bracts surrounding the base of the 
young twigs in our specimen are entirely lacking in the other 
Species. 
APOCYNACE. 
CARRUTHERSIA Seem. 
Carruthersia hirsuta Elm. n. sp. 
A climbing shrub; stems flexible, greenish brown, round, 
soft with a large pith, the twigs grayish brown in the dry 
state and covered with olivaceous hairs; bark milky. Leaves 
opposite, distantly scattered, ovately elliptic, apex sharply 
acute, base usually subcordate, margins entire, coriaceous, 
paler green beneath, nearly flat, with age entirely glabrous 
on the upper side, when young hirsute, exceedingly variable 
in size, the larger blades 18 cm. long and about one half 
as wide across the middle, beneath subglabrous and yellowish 
green, hirsute long the nerves and the more prominent reticula- 
tions; petiole hirsute, 3 to 5 cm. long, mostly twisted at 
the base; midvein very prominent beneath, grooved along 
the upper side; the lateral 5 to 7 pairs divaricate, their tips 
ascendingly curved and interarching, all yellowish hirsute, cross 
bars quite numerous but faint, the fine reticulations obscure. 
Flowers not seen; peduncle of infrutescence 1.5 dm. long, 
sparingly branched toward the top, ligneous, glabrous, from 
the leaf axils or from the axils of their scars, subpendulous; 
pedicels 1 to 2 em. long; fruits green, hard, glabrous, strong- __ 
ly grooved, freely bleeding with white juice when injured, - 
1 to 2 em. thick, 2 dm. long, similarly tapering at both 
ends, pendulous, heavy, laterally dehiscing from the apex to 
the base into 2 similar halves; seeds rather numerous, arranged 
