660 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Arr. 38 | 1 
Ardisia scabrida Mez in Engler’s Pflanzenreich IX; 113,1902. ^ 
Lax shrub or becoming tree-like; stem 5 cm. thick, 
mostly branched toward the top; wood sappy white, mode- 
rately soft, without odor or taste; bark smooth, grayish 
brown, that on the twigs green ; branches divaricate, simi- 
larly rebranched. Leaves subchartaceous, with strongly recurved 
tips, deep green above, paler beneath, drying brown, the 
reticulations equally prominent on both sides, beneath punct- 
ate. Inflorescence terminal, the stalks greenish or becom- 
ing pink, the odorless flowers upon recurved pedicels; calyx 
tips and petals pink, or the latter turning whitish; anthers 
pale yellow; style whitish; fruits reddish, subpendulous. 
Represented by numbers 10903 and 11397, Elmer. The 
former number was collected on a forested ridge at 4500 feet 
on mount Calelan, and was called by the Bagobos ''Catigpo- 
catigpo". The latter number came from 6750 feet on mount 
Apo and was called ''Rais" by the Bagobos. The type is 
based upon number 14357 collected by Warburg on mount 
"Dagat-Ban" * from 1600 to 2000 feet altitude. — 
Ardisia punctata Elm. from southern Negros is very close 
to this species if not identical. 
aM. 
Ardisia copelandii Mez in Philip. Journ. Sci. Suppl. 
I: 272, 19060. 
Tree 10 m. high, with a 2 dm. thick stem; main 
branches few, toward the top only, ascending, fastigiate; 
branchlets divaricate, radially spreading, 2 cm. thick, 1 to 
2 m. long, occasionally rebranched; twigs slender, heavy, 
ascendingly curved; wood moderately hard and heavy, red- 
dish throughout, oderless and tasteless, streaked with coal 
black vessels; bark smooth, whitish mottled and spotted with 
dark brown. Leaves heavy and leathery, spreading, shining 
on both sides, shallowly and curvingly conduplicate on the 
upper side. Inflorescence suberect, terminal, the stalks and 
M “Dagad-B Ban", ‘‘Batangan’’, '"Sagatpan' and ‘‘Dagat-Ban’’ are 
undoubtedly one and the same mountain situated in one of the mount 
Apo spurs which extends to Santa Cruz. 
