OCTOBER 3, 1910] THE GENUS SOLANUM FROM Mount Apo 731 
2cm. long, slender, slightly thickened toward the apex; 
calyx only 3 mm. deep, 5 mm. wide across the top, the rim 
shallowly and irregularly but usually 5-denticulate or lobulate; 
corolla segments 5, free except at the very base, rotately spread- 
ing, 9 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, oblong, slightly narrowed toward 
the base, obtuse at apex which is usually puberulent, mar- 
gins inflexed and also puberulent; filaments flattened, 1.5 mm. 
long, nearly free; anthers thick, 4 mm. long, opening by 
terminal slits, basifixed, slightly thinner toward the base; 
ovary glabrous, truncately dome-shaped, bearing a slender 
glabrous 5 mm. long style; fruits immature, green, globose, 
12.5 mm. in diameter, with numerous flattened seeds imbedded 
in a fleshy pulp. 
Type specimen 11599, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Collected in humid woods on a steep ravine at 5000 feet 
on the trail between Mainit creek and Baclayan on Apo. 
Solanum angatii Elm. n. sp. 
Epiphyte; stems branched, 1 m. long, grayish white, the 
free ends mostly descending, forming straggling masses, the 
whole plant quite heavy and succulent. Leaves coriaceous, 
also descending, shallowly conduplicate on the upper sublucid 
surface, the sharply and slenderly acuminate tips recurved, 
much paler beneath, glabrous, drying brown, exceedingly diverse 
in size, entire, lanceolate or the smallest ones ovately elliptic, 
the larger blades 7.5 cm. long, 2.5 cm. wide below the middle, 
base obtusely rounded, scattered along the branchlets, alter- 
nate or occasionally opposite; petiole up to 5 mm. long, glabrous; 
midvein prominent beneath, the 3 to 5 arcuate lateral pairs 
faint. Flowers upon glabrous and descendingly curved ped- 
icels 1 cm. long usually in small axillary leaf clusters; 
pedicels twice 4s long, in the fruiting state, gradually thick- 
ened toward the distal end; calyx also glabrous, 3 mm. long, 
‘nearly as broad, the rim usually splitting into 3 to 5 broad 
lobes, occasionally finely ciliate at the margin; corolla 6 mm, 
long, the basal 2: mm. long tube rather abruptly constricted; 
lobes 5, oblongish, obtuse at the finely puberulent apices, 
4 mm. long, 2 mm. broad toward the base; stamens 5; 
