Marot 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2755 



paniculate, 1.5 dm long more or less, one half as wide at 

 the base; rachis straight, green, angular and fluted along 

 its sides, also covered with a stellate tomentum which soon 

 wears off; branches opposite, divaricate, the lower ones 3 

 cm long and subtended by foliaceous bracts, short rebranch- 

 ed from the middle, otherwise similar to the rachis; the 

 ultimate branchlets 5 mm long, subtended by short caducous 

 bracteoles or only with very densely hairy vestiges, leaving 

 lar^e scars upon falling; all the joints irregularly enlarged; 

 pedicel 5 to 11 mm long, usually subtended by a small 

 pair of puberulent caducous and minutely glandular bracts, 

 subterete, striate, puberulent and glandular dotted, articu- 

 late at the base and early falling; calyx with a deep cavity, 

 1 cm long or less, 4 mm thick, shal lowly constricted below 

 the truncate apical rim, subterete, glabrous except toward 

 the puberulent base; corolla bud slenderly tapering; petals 

 4, free, caducous, strongly imbricate, 1 cm long or less, 

 oblong, base board and truncate, apex acute and occasional- 

 ly notched on the broader inner side, submembranous, gla- 

 brous; stamens apparently 7, of 2 distinct series; filaments 

 coriaceous, ribbon-like, all inserted upon the calyx throat 2 

 mm below the rim, glabrous, those of the 4 substerile 

 anthers 3 mm long and with a double loop above the mid- 

 dle; anthers nearly 6 mm long, very linear and tapering 

 toward the apex, the base expanded and obscurely toothed, 

 at the point of attachment provided with a pair of lateral 

 blunt points; filaments of the 3 larger or fertile anthers 

 nearly twice as long and with only a single loop,- anthers 

 of these 7 mm long, slenderly tapering to the apical pore, 

 at the base extended into a pair of 1.25 mm long mem- 

 brane-like teeth, all anthers reversed in the bud state; style 

 10 to 12 mm long, terete, fleshy, glabrous, 1 mm thick, 

 slightly constricted at the small pulverulent stigma. Fruits 

 upon twice as long pedicels, ellipsoid, including the constrict- 

 ed calyx rim, glabrous, yellowish green and upon the ex- 

 posed sides turning atro-violaceus with age. 



Type specimen number 13352, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 

 1912. 



Gathered in jungled woods and associated among other 



