Avueust 5, 1910] MYRSINACEAE FROM Mount Apo 673 
ascending, glabrous. Leaves ascending, apex recurved, rigidly 
coriaceous, lucid dark green above, much lighter green beneath, 
glabrous, punctate on the upper surface, oblong, 1 dm. long, 
nearly 4 cm. wide across the middle or just above this, apex 
obtuse, base abruptly cuneate, margins entire and revolute 
in the dry state; midvein prominent beneath; the 15 or 
more lateral ones equally plain on both sides and with submar- 
ginally united ends, the reticulations fine and very evident 
especially from the upper side; petiole glabrous, nearly 1 em. 
long. Inflorescence from axillary tubercles 5mm. long and 8 mm. 
thick; the bracts glabrous, numerous, densely imbricate, ovately 
triangular; pedicels also glabrous, spreading in fruit, 5 mm. 
long; calyx 4-lobed; the basal one third of the segments united, 
glabrous but spotted with reddish brown glands, margins smooth 
or minutely ciliate, 1.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide toward the base, 
ovately oblong, obtuse or acute at the apex; corolla segments 
of the same number, only the bases united and ultimately 
becoming free, oblong, nearly 3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide 
across the middle, apex obtuse, margins very finely and 
densely ciliate, thickly spotted or streaked with reddish 
brown glands; stamens 4, opposite the corolla segments; 
filaments glabrous, flattened, scarcely exceeding 0.5 mm. in 
length, inserted upon or adnate to the petals; anther nearly 
2 mm. long, bluntly obtuse at apex, bilobed at base, basi- 
fixed, dehiscent through lateral slits, about 1.5 mm. wide 
across the base; ovary superior, glabrous, subglobose, 0.75 mm. 
in diameter, bearing a terminal papillose subsessile stigma; 
fruits blue, globosely flattened, 5 mm. in diameter. 
Type specimen 11445, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909; also number 
11456, Elmer. 
Both these numbers were collected above Baclayan at 
about 7000 feet on mount Apo. This species is quite com- 
mon and associated with R. fastigiata Elm. in rigid well in- 
terlaced woods bordering open grassy glens. The Bagobos 
call it ‘*‘Tongog’’. 
; Probably nearest to R. myricifolia (Gray) Mez with slend- 
| erer branches and pedicels more than twice as oe as in 
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