2748 



Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



greenish brown, grass green except the epidermis; branches 

 laxly rebranched, the green and glabrous young tips com- 

 pressed, slender and descending or drooping. Leaves mem- 

 branous, similarly disposed, flat, much lighter green beneath, 

 when dry unequally greenish on its 2 sides, entire, apex 

 gradually acuminate, base obtuse and occasionally inequilat- 

 eral, the smallest ones broadly lanceolate, the others elongated 

 and 15 cm long by one third as wide across the middle 

 or below it, opposite and well scattered, the lower and ter- 

 minal ones usually smaller than the middle pairs; petiole 

 5 mm long, green and glabrate, caniculate on the upper 

 side; midrib dull green and rather prominent beneath, nar- 

 rowly grooved above; lateral pairs 4 to 6 pairs, compara- 

 tively faint, much ascending and curved, reticulations minute 

 and obscure; stipule in the early state pointed, when old 

 truncately rounded, broad and interaxillary, 3 mm long, 

 persistent, glabrous, thickly coriaceous. Flowers not observed. 

 Fruits very dark green, in small lateral clusters, obovoidly 

 globose, 8 mm across when fresh, glabrous, black or near- 

 ly so when dry; pedicels 3 to 5 mm long, recurved, sub- 

 tended by btact vestiges; calyx persistent, pale green, gla- 

 brate and only finely ciliate along the 5 segments; seeds 

 numerous, pitted, irregular, 1 mm across, imbedded in a 

 juicy pulp. 



Type specimen number 13812, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sept- 

 ember, 1912. 



Collected in wet ground among bowlders along the shad- 

 ed Dalahion creek at 3000 feet altitude or just above its 

 falls. "Sanguadan" in Manobo. 



Possibly it is a Rubiaceae. 



MAGNOLIACEAE 



Kadsura apoensis Elm. n. sp. 



Climbing about large tree trunks and reaching the main 

 limbs; stem 3.5 cm thick, terete, divaricately branched to- 

 ward the top; wood porous, flexible, reddish, odorless and 

 tasteless; bark comparatively thick, coarsely checked long- 

 itudinally, reddish beneath the epidermis; branchlets smooth, 



