March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2777 



the subsessile base, 5 mm high, 3.5 mm wide across the rim- 

 like apex, glabrous, turbinate, very obscurely 5-apiculate, 

 greenish; petals creamy white, caducous, falling separately, 

 1.5 mm across, margins entire or irregularly cut, inserted 

 upon the calyx rim; stamens numerous, inwardly curved 

 especially in the bud state, corolla colored; filaments glabrous, 

 0.75 mm long, dark brown, gradually tapering from the 

 base to the fine apex; anther basifixed, the 2 subglobose 

 pale yellow sacs well separated; ovary apex flatly cone shap- 

 ed, terminated by the pointed style which bears the minute 

 stigma. 



Type specimen number 14263, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio 

 (Mt. Santo Tomas), Province of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1913. 



Found in the densely wooded summit region of mount 

 Santo Tomas at 7000 feet altitude. 



Very closely related to Eugenia parva (Merr.) C. B. Rob. 

 and to Eugenia perpallida Merr. yet in my opinion it is 

 specifically distinct. 



MYRSINACEAE 



Ardisia cuprea Elm. n. sp. 



Small, not an upright tree; stem 1 dm thick, 5 m 

 high, terete; wood moderately soft, odorless and tasteless, 

 the outer one half white, the balance reddish, tinged with 

 distinct radial lines; bark yellowish gray, smooth, otherwise 

 brown; branches slender, crowded toward the top, divaricate, 

 unbranched, terete, when dry nearly testaceus. Leaves 

 alternatingly scattered, horizontal or descending, smooth, 

 glabrous, lighter green beneath, coriaceous, elliptic, entire, 

 apex short and abruptly acute, base obtusely rounded, cu- 

 ring brown above and characteristically cupreus beneath, 

 greatly varying in size, the larger blades 2 dm long by 

 8 cm wide across the widest portion, the upper side ob- 

 scurely punctate; midrib conspicuous beneath, grooved along 

 the upper side especially toward the base; lateral nerves 

 also conspicuous beneath, 11 to 17 pairs, subparallel, as- 

 cending, nearly straight, toward their tips much curved 

 upward and gradually disappearing, reticulations numerous 



