Aveust 5, 1910] MYRSINACEAE FROM Mount Apo 661 
calyx whitish; petals rigid, recurved, indigo red; fruit dark 
red, globose, nearly 8 mm. thick, bearing the persistent 
style. 
Represented by number 10490, Elmer, collected in rich 
soil of humid forests at 4000 feet. The Bagobos call it 
“‘Catigpo-tigpo”’ and eat the ripe fruits which have a pleas- 
ant sour flavor. The type is based on number 1242 collect- 
ed by Dr. Copeland at Todaya, April, 1904. Also known 
from Lake Lanao by Mrs. Clemens specimens. 
Ardisia racemosa-paniculata Mez in Philip. Journ. Sci. 
Suppl. 1; 278, 1906. 
Erect tree, 7 m. high, with a 1 dm. thick stem; branches 
few or more, divaricate, relatively short, sparingly rebranched; 
twigs gray, slender, at right angles to the main branches, 
X radially spreading, much thickened at the base; wood moder- 
T ately hard or soft, the sapwood whitish, reddish toward the 
center, with conspicuous rays, odorless and tasteless; bark smo- 
oth, gray and brown mottled. Leaves subcoriaceous, horizontal- 
ly spreading, nearly flat, tips recurved slightly, dark green above, 
much paler beneath, the petiole and main nerves reddish. 
Inflorescence ascending, all its stalks red; calyx and petals 
pink or whitish; anthers yellow; buds and odorless flowers 
pendulous. 
Represented by numbers 10512 and 10748, Elmer, col- 
lected in dense forests at 4000 feet. Called by the Bagobos 
“*Catigpo-tigpo.’’ The type is based on number 1187 collected 
by Copeland at 5000 feet, April, 1904. Otherwise not known. 
Ardisia sibulanensis Elm. n. sp. 
An undershrub 1 m. high or less; stem 1 cm. thick at 
z or toward the base, unbranched, brittle, crooked, greenish, 
the young portion finely grayish white lenticelled. Leaves 
chiefly crowded toward the top, ascending, coriaceous, flat, 
with recurved tips, sublucid above, much paler beneath, 15 
em. long, 3 to 4 cm. wide across the middle, lanceolate, 
acuminate, base slenderly attenuate, glabrous on both sides, 
alternate, margins crenulate except toward the base and at 
the apex; midvein very prominent beneath, the lateral ones - 
