664 
LEAFLETS OF PAILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Art. 
Ardisia fragrans Elm. n. sp. 
Tree 9 m. high, at least 2 dm. thick, bearing only 
a few branches at the top; branchlets numerous toward 
the end of the main branches, ascending or divaricately 
spreading, unbranched, much thickened and flattened at the 
base; wood sappy white, becoming reddish toward the center, 
soft, without odor or taste; bark smoothish, brown, yellow- 
ish gray on the branches; twigs glabrous. Leaves alterna- 
tingly scattered along the branchlets especially toward their 
ends, ascending, tips recurved, folded upon the upper darker 
green and lucid surface, coriaceous, narrowly oblong or lan- 
ceolate, glabrous, at least 1 dm. long, 3 cm. wide, quite 
variable in size, much paler green beneath, apex acute to 
acuminate, base cuneate, margins entire and usually with 
a string of submarginal punctate glands; midvein conspi- 
cuous beneath, the 15 lateral ones much less conspicuous, 
reticulations scarcely visible; petiole glabrous, 1.5 cm. long, 
grooved along the upper side. Inflorescence from the up- 
permost leaf axils, averaging 1 dm. in length, glabrous, 
paniculately branched from below the middle, all the stalks 
pale green and more or less angular, ascendingly curved; 
pedicels scattering along the branchlets, usually recurv- 
ed, 3 mm. long, subtended by acuminate deciduous bracts; 
sepals 5, the segments nearly divided to the base, ov- 
ately oblong, glabrous, scarcely longer than 1.5 mm., at 
least 1 mm. wide below the middle, the margins finely 
fringed, greenish white, the inner surface with a few scat- 
tering glands; corolla also 5-segmented; the petals nearly 
free, with smooth margins, pale white, broadly oblong, nearly 
4 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide across the middle, glabrous, 
with only a few punctate glands, obtuse, deeply convex on 
the dorsal side, the nerves obscure, not twisted, imbricate; 
stamens 5, opposite the corolla segments, mostly included; 
filaments thick, flattened, of the same color as the segments, 
glabrous, with a few punctate glands, 0.75 mm. long, 
inserted upon the base of the corolla; anther rugose, 
2 mm. long, roundly pointed, 1 mm. wide across the base, 
.. basifixed, laterally dehiscent, subcordate at the base; ovary 
.. superior, Dene at least 1 mm. in diameter; style 
38 
