Aveust 5, 1910] MYRSINACEAE FROM Mount Apo 667 
: Represented by number 10968, Elmer, collected in fertile 
1 Soil of deep woods along the Baracatan creek at 1500 feet 
altitude. ''Mabalid-ta-pangpang" isthe Bagobo name. Thetype 
is based upon numbers 18528, 13529 and 15025 collected 
by Warburg on the island of Luzon, Known from nearly 
all localities so far visited by botanical collectors. 
Maesa platyphylia Elm. n. sp. 
[S A tree-like shrub 5 m. high, with a 5 to 8 cm. thick stem; 
I branches rather slender, not numerous; wood soft, sappy 
white, without taste or odor; bark dark brown, densely cov- 
ered with  lenticels. Leaves coriaceous, flat, spreading 
horizontally or descending, dull green on the upper side, 
; much paler beneath, glabrous, drying brownish, margins 
£n; entire or minutelv apiculate, oblong, the larger blades 2 dm. 
| long, nearly 1 dm. across the middle, apex acute, base 
obtuse or rounded; veins conspicuous beneath, the 8 to 11 lat- 
eral pairs ascending, dark brown as is also the midvein, 
usually forked toward the distal end; petiole 8 to 4 cm. 
long, glabrous. Inflorescence 1 dm. long, paniculately branch- 
ed from the base, glabrous; branches rather slender, not 
numerously rebranched; pedicels 1 to 2 mm. long, scattered 
all along the branchlets, subtended by short but sharply ac- 
uminate bracts; calyx 5-segmented; segments united below 
the middle, the free portion broadly ovate, obtuse, with 
o: smooth margins, glabrous, 1.5 mm. long including the basal 
portion, 0.75 mm. wide below the middle of the free portion, 
subtended by a few small bracts; corolla also 5-segmented; 
the segments united below the middle, inserted upon the 
throat of the calyx, nearly 2 mm. long, the free portion 1.5 
mm. wide, margins smooth, 2 to several-nerved, broadly 
rounded; stamens as many as segments, opposite; filaments 
very short, inserted upon the middle portion of the corolla 
segments a trifle below the middle, glabrous; anther or- 
bicular, 0.25 mm. across; ovary partly imbedded in the basal 
portion of the calyx, glabrous, broadly flattened at the apex; 
style also glabrous, short, pedestal-like, bearing an expanded 
more or less 4-lobed stigma; ovules numerous, upon a central 
