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truncate apex, glabrate, cup shaped, upon a 2 to 3 mm 

 long glabrate and terete pedicel; petals 4, triangularly ovate, 

 straight across or truncate at the base, 2.5 mm long, rounded 

 at the apex, 2.5 mm wide at the base, very early falling, 

 glabrous, coriaceous though margins thinner, reflexed; stamens 

 8, inserted around the inner side of the calyx rim, be- 

 coming easily detached; filaments subterete, glabrous, 3 mm 

 long; anther 2 ram long by 1 mm thick above the middle 

 or its widest part, the basal one third devoid of pollen, 

 backwardly curved, folded and acute, attached on the ven- 

 tral side below the middle, apex broadly rounded; anther 

 cells opening along the ventral side; ovary inferior, its 

 sunken top radially marked; style subpersistent, 4 mm long, 

 terete or nearly so; stigma minute. Fruits globose, 1 cm 

 in diameter, hard and pale green, the calyx rim persistent. 



Type specimen number 14113, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ober, 1912. 



Gathered in dense woods upon a steep fertile and 

 well drained incline at 3500 feet altitude situated between 

 the peaks of Duros and Cawilanan. In the Manobo dialect 

 it is called "Balitioan." 



Its relation is very close to Memecylon apoense Elm. 

 though primarily differing in its narrower leaves, more nu- 

 merous and congested flowers, shorter inflorescent branches 

 and with the submarginal vein twice as far from the edge of 

 the leaf. 



Sonerila lilacina Elm. n. sp. 



Solitary herbs; stem reclining at the base and taking 

 root along its lower side, terete, reddish brown, ultimately 

 erect, 3 mm thick, varying from 1 to 3 dm high, occasion- 

 ally few branched, dark brown puberulent to pubescent, 

 usually curved. Leaves opposite, mostly toward the top, 

 very membranous, horizontally spreading or descending, ovate 

 to ovately lanceolate, often the opposite pairs quite unequal 

 in size, the nether side grayish green when dry and mi- 

 nutely puncticulate, the upper surface sparsely covered with 

 white ciliate hairs, margins entire about the broadly round- 



