991 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I. Arr; 16 
and thinner, each pair of branches subtended by bracts; 
flower pink, glomerate, subsessile; calyx turbinate, 1 mm. long, 
as broad across the truncate top, quite rigid, thickly clothed 
with masses of stellate hairs, perigynous; corolla 2.5 mm. long, 
campanulate, inserted upon the base of the calyx, g'abrous, 
terminated by 4 round lobes which are 0.75 mm. long, abruptly 
constricted near the base, stamens 4; filaments slender, gla- 
brous, inserted upon the throat of the constriction, & few 
mm. exceeding the corolla, flexuose; anthers oblong, 1 mm. 
long and 0.5 mm. thick; style also flexuose, slender, glabrous, 
a trifle exceeding the stamens, stigmatic portion flat and 
broadly expanded; ovary small, finely pubescent; fruit or 
berry 4-celled, composed of 2 carpels, globose, 2 mm. in dia- 
meter, bright pink; stone like seeds 1 in each cell, 1.75 mm. 
long, 1 mm. thick, tapering toward both ends, the outer 
side convex, the 2 lateral sides plane. 
Type specimen 7370, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. A fine tree in light wood at 
200 meters. 
Callicarpa subalbida n. sp.—Suberect shrub, 4 m. high; 
wood soft, white, covered with light or ashy gray bark; the 
ultimate branchlets slender, more or less 4-angled. Leaves 
opposite, about 5 cm. apart, glabrous, dull green above, 
silvery white beneath, submembranous, the larger blades 2 
dm. long and 6 cm. wide below the middle but frequently 
smaller, the upper one half gradually tapering to a slenderly 
acuminate point, the base subeuneate, margins entire, broadly 
ovate lanceolate to oblong; petiole nearly 2 cm. long, stout, 
ashy gray, wrinkled when dry, subglabrous or only slight- 
ly scurfy; veins 7 to 9 on each side of the prominent 
midnerve, ascendingly curved, quite prominent beneath, the 
connecting cross bars rather numerous, Inflorescence from 
the upper leaf axils, dichotemously branched, 6 cm. wide, 
4 cm. long, gray, finely scurfy, its branches subtended by 
linear 5 mm. long bracts; peduncles yellowish lanose; flowers 
yellowish white, sessile, caducous, 3 to 5-clustered upon a 
woolly receptacle surrounded by a subwhorl of unequal lanose 
persistent involucral bracts; calyx strongly turbinate, nearly 
2 mm, long, 1.5 mm. thick across the apex which is either 
