2778 



Leaflets op Philippine Botany 



JVol. VIII, Art. 115 



and quite evident from the upper side at least; petiole 1.5 

 to 2 cm long, very stout, somewhat thickened toward the 

 ascendingly curved base, dark copper brown when dry, 

 deeply channeled along the side, glabrous. Flowers not 

 found. Young infrutescence mostly descending from the leaf 

 axils; stalk 1 to 2 cm long, usually unbranched, the larger 

 ones sometimes few and short branched, very thick espe- 

 cially toward the base, irregularly angular, at the base as 

 well as the base of the branchlets subtended by thick 

 transverse bract vestiges, dark brown when dry, sparsely 

 pulverulent; pedicels few to severally clustered from the 

 distal end, ascendingly curved, pulverulent, subterete, grad- 

 ually thickened toward the distal end, at the base enlarg- 

 ed and leaving large scars after falling, 1 to 1.5 cm long, 

 reddish in the natural state, similar dark brown when dry; 

 fruits subtended by the distended 5 calyx segments, termi- 

 nated by a very slender style, ovoidly globose, glabrous, 5 

 mm long, very dark or dull brown in the dry state. 



Type specimen number 13287, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ly, 1912. 



Collected in rich well drained and deeply humus cov- 

 ered ground near a forested ridge at 1500 feet above ocean 

 level. The manobos call it "Sima-sima." 



A critical segregate from Ardisia disticha DC. 



Ardisia curtiflora Elm. n. sp. 



Tree-like shrub; stem 1 dm thick, terete but crooked, 

 5 m high, bearing at the top a dense crown of branches; 

 wood soft and pulpy, white, odorless and entirely tasteless, 

 with fine radial lines; bark yellowish brown, smooth and 

 with lighter brown excrescences, latericius otherwise; branches 

 divaricate, flexible, the lower or longer ones drooping and 

 occasionally branched, otherwise unbranched, numerous, ob- 

 scurely angular, much shortened toward the top where they 

 are rusty brown, the sides striately marked from leaf to 

 leaf, the young apical tips fulvus pulverulent. Leaves heavy 

 and coriaceous, in distichous rows, horizontal, the slender 

 and gradually acuminate apex recurved, conduplicate, numer- 



