JANUARY 25, 1908] A Century oF New PLANTS 514 
ing, dull green on both sides, alternate. usually only a few at the 
ends of the twigs which are puberulent, oblong, unequal in size, 
2dm. long, 9 cm. wide across the middle, glabrous, shining 
brown on both sides when dry, apex acuminate, base rounded, 
margins entire; petiole very thick, 5 mm. in length, pu- 
berulent; stipule subpersistent, linear and bract like or fre- 
quently equal in length and similar in pubescence; nerves 
of the leaves oblique, parallel, conspicuously arched and 
united at their ends, brown, glabrous, prominent beneath, 
12 to 16 on each side, reticulations plainly evident. In- 
florescence pendulous, 1 to 3-clustered, from the axils of the 
fallen leaves but occasionally from the leaf axils, spicate, 
1 to 3 dm. long, the axis subglabrous in age, occasionally 
bracteate toward the base, densely flowered above the middle 
and especially toward the apex, dull brick red; flowers di- 
varicate, subtended by minute persistent bracts; pedicels 1.5 
mm. long, thick, short ferruginous pubescent; calyx similarly 
pubescent, 1 mm. high, united, 5 to 7-toothed; corolla ab- 
sent; ovary brown instead of reddish, oblong in ‘outline or 
ellipsoid, 2 mm. long, dirty yellowish pubescent; stigma 
fleshy, conspicuous, cleft and radially recurved, the 5 to 7 
segments acute and glabrous; fruits reddish when exposed 
to the light, bladdery, glabrous or pulverulent, ovately sub- 
oblique, compressed, base broadly rounded, apex pointed, 8 
mm. long, 5 mm. wide across the base, 1-celled, with 2 
pendulous ovules from near the apex. 
Type specimen for fruit 9088, for flower 7913, A. D. E. 
Elmer, Lucban, Province of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 
In deeply shaded woody slopes of ravines at 750 meters. 
Pistillate and fruiting specimens were several times observed 
but no staminate flowers. 
AQUIFOLIACEAE. 
Hex rolfei n. sp.—A small slender tree, 6 m. high; wood 
hard; bark mottled; ultimate twigs numerous, quite slender. 
Leaves subcoriaceous, also numerous, alternatingly scatter- 
ed along the glabrous, angled twigs, the blades 6 cm. long, 
and 2 em .wide, oblong to lanceolate, apex more or less abruptly 
acuminate, edges entire or obscurely repandly serrate, paler 
green beneath, glabrous even in the the young state, base 
