666 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Arr. 38 
mented, red; the basal portion of the segments united and 
forming a short tube, glabrous, with scattering glands on the 
dorsal side, margins smooth, ovately oblong, 8 mm. long, 
5 mm. wide across the middle or a trifle below this, apex 
obtuse or subacute; stamens 5, opposite the corolla segments 
and included by them; filaments arising from the throat of 
the corolla tube, 0.5 mm. long, stout, flattened especially 
toward the base; anther basifixed, 4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide : 
across the cordate base, acutely pointed, dehiscent laterally; A 
ovary 2 mm. in diameter, subglobose, glabrous; style 3 mm. 
long, rather stout and straight, gradually tapering from the 
ovary apex to the small stigma; fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 11271, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. The Bagobos call 
it ‘‘Catigpo”. 
Discovered in moist fertile soil of a densely forested 
humid flat at 3500 feet altitude. Also known from the Lake 
Lanao region by a few fruiting specimens collected by Mrs. 
Clemens. Named in honor of Mrs. Mary Strong Clemens whose 
interest in botany and untiring energy during her brief stay 
at Camp Keithley, Lake Lanao, Mindanao, will always be 
remembered in botanical history of the Philippines. 
In general characters similar to Discocalyx  psychotrioides 
Elm., but not the same species. 
MAESA Forsk. 
Maesa denticulata Mezin Engler's Pflanzenreich IX; 48, 
1902. 
Lax undershrub; stem 2 m. long, 3 cm. thick, terete, 
branched from below the middle; wood greenish, soft, odor- 
less and tasteless; bark brown, densely lenticelled; twigs 
glabrous, slender, somewhat drooping. Leaves descending, ul- 
timately recurved, paler beneath, thinly coriaceous. Inflores- 
cence ascending from the leaf axils, greenish or green ex- 
cept the pure white corola and yellow anthers, odorless; 
mature fruit ""Snowberry" white, elongated ellipsoid, 7.5 mm. 
across or less, the yellowish receptacle bearing numerous black 
seeds. 
