JawvaRY 25, 1908] A Century or New PLANTS 352 
Type specimen, 7603, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. It was discovered in very 
loose gravelly soil of a damp stream bank in a deep wooded 
ravine at 750 meters on Mount Banahao. Forms dense patch- 
es with its subdecumbent crookedly rebranched stems. and 
branches. Not observed elsewhere. 
Randia rigidaefolia n. sp.—Scandent upon small tree 
trunks to which the 15 mm. thick stems cleave rather 
tightly; branches greenish, divaricate or subpendulous, spar- 
ingly rebranched. Leaves thick, opposite, scattered, rigid, 
flat, shining on both sides, dull deep green above, olive 
green beneath, elliptic but with an acute apex and obtuse 
base, 12 cm. long. 6 cm. wide across the middle, glabrous, 
margins entire and subinvolute; petiole 2 to 3 cm. long, 
glabrous; stipule simply a callous rim; nerves pinnate, 
more conspicuous beneath, usually 7 to 9 on each side, 
faintly united 1 to 2 mm. beneath the margin, reticulations 
coarse and obscure. Inflorescence ternately paniculate, 
terminal, mostly 3 pedunculate from the base, the glabrous 
peduncle about 6 cm. long, the secondary peduncles one half 
as long, all the branches and even the short yellowish pu- 
berulent pedicels subtended by broad leathery sharply point- 
ed bracts; flowers young but apparently early falling, per- 
fect; calyx glabrous, 2 to 3 mm. long, turbinate 1.5 mm. 
long across the top, its rim shallow and with 5 minute 
apiculate teeth; corolla short tubular, clavately elongated 
in the bud state, finally at least 9 mm. long, glabrous, 
deciduous as a whole; the 5 segments straight, valvate in 
bud, recurved and rotate when in anthesis, thick, about 
as long as the tube, densely hairy in the region of the 
throat, obtuse, ARRA with callous incurved tips; stamens 
5, included, alternating with the segments and inserted upon 
the throat: . filaments glabrous, 1.5 to 2 mm. long, rather 
slender; anthers linear, 2 mm. ín length, dorsally attached 
below the. middle, bifid at the base, glabrous; style slender, 
also glabrous, 2-cleft, ultimately exceeding the stamens. 
.. Type specimen 9118, E. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. In humid forests on the 
road between Lucban and Sampaloc. The above description 
