588 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. 11, Art. 29 
in a single row on each side of the thin brown colored 
septum and attached along the ventral edge, 1.5 cm. long, 
linearly oblong and irregularly twisted, dark brown, rugose or 
deeply cracked in the dry state, usually grooved on the ven- 
tral or flattened side, contracted and somewhat expanded at 
the distal end which bears the 3 cm. long silky coma. 
Type specimen 8899, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. 
Found along the Sablan river above the barrio of the 
Same name. . 
Certainly of the same genus as Cuming 1783, a cotype 
of Carruthersia pilosa (A. DC.) F. Vil., and may prove to 
be only a very large leaved variety. There are several 
very closely related species of this genus in the Philip- 
pines. 
Carruthersia imberbis Elm. n. sp. 
Seandent; stem 1.5 cm. thick, tough, covered with red- 
dish brown bark; sap milky. Leaves subcoriaceous, opposite- 
ly scattered along the branchlets, lucid and conduplicate 
on the upper side, glabrous, tips recurved, beneath sprink- 
led with brown or coal black dots, the average blades 1 
dm. long and nearly one half as wide across the middle, 
elliptic, the apex abruptly terminating into an acuminate or 
subcaudate point, base obtuse or rounded, margins entire; petiole 
also glabrous, 2 to 3 em. long; nerves prominent, especially 
beneath, the 6 to 8 lateral pairs oblique, their ends interarch- 
ing, the cross bars rather numerous and comparatively faint. 
Inflorescence terminal, corymbosely paniculate, yellowish green 
puberulent, 1 dm. long, less than that across the top; pe- 
duncles usually 3, strict, subcompressed, branched above the 
middle or only toward the top, subtended by a pair of 
small leaves, the secondary and ultimate ones subtended by 
linear foliaceous bracts; flowers quite numerous and cluster- 
ed at the ends, whitish; pedicel 2 mm. long, minutely 
pubescent, subtended by small unequal bracts; calyx simi- 
larly pubescent and about as long as the pedicels, united 
below the middle; segments 5, triangularly acute, glabrous 
on the inner side; corolla 3 mm. long, 2 mm. thick, urn- 
shaped, only the upper one third cleft into 5 teeth, scan- 
