ae 
N; 
Avevusr 5, 1910] MYRSINACEAE FROM Mount Apo 
white, arising from the ovary apex, terete, fleshy, 2 mm. 
long, strict, coming to a somewhat smaller blunt stigmatic 
point, glabrous; fruit flatly globose, about 8 mm. in dia- 
meter, dark brown or nearly black. 
Type specimen 11647, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
Discovered in moist fertile soil of damp forests at 4000 
feet, on the trail from Todaya to Talon. It was only once 
or twice observed and its whitish flowers are sweetly frag- 
rant. The Bagobos call it ‘‘Catigpo-tigpo.” 
Not A. jagorit Mez, because of the shortness of the ped- 
icels and character of the calyx. 
Ardisia clementis Elm. n. sp. 
A slender, erect tree, 10 m. high, with a 2 dm. thick 
Stem; branches relatively short, forming an elongated crown; 
twigs coarse, glabrous; wood odorless and tasteless, rather 
soft, white or the central portion reddish, the radial lines 
conspicuous; bark smooth, yellowish brown mottled. Leaves 
coriaceous, slightly recurved and  conduplicate on the 
upper dark green surface, paler beneath, divaricately spread- 
ing, glabrous, oblong, 1.5 to 2 dm. long, 7.5 cm. wide across 
the middle or a trifle above this, apex acute, base obtuse 
or rounded, margins entire; midvein very stout and prom- 
inent below, the 10 to 15 lateral ones less prominent 
and strongly arched toward their ends, reticulations visible; 
petiole glabrous, 3 mm. thick, 1 to 1.5 cm. long. Inflor- 
escence terminal or arising from the base of leafy branchlets, 
1 to 1.5 dm. long, paniculate, the sparse branches div- 
aricate, erect, rigid, heavy, all the stalks reddish, subglab- 
rous or clothed with a short dark brown pulverulence; main 
branches divaricate, sparingly rebranched, bearing toward the 
end several odorless flowers; pedicels usually recurved, 5 to 
10 mm. long, at the base subtended by broad but short 
bracts covered with a fine brown pulverulence; the reddish 
segments of the calyx 5, subglabrous, with scattering brown 
glands on the dorsal side of the central portion, margins 
only finely ciliate, imbricate; divided to below the middle, 
orbicular to rotund, 3.5 mm. across; corolla also 5-seg- 
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