March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2779 



ous, dull green except the base which is lighter colored, 

 glabrous, curing brown on both sides, entire or the edges 

 wrinkled, rounded at the base, broadly lanceolate to ob- 

 longish, the larger blades 13 cm long by 3 cm wide across 

 the middle or its widest portion, frequently much smaller, 

 obscurely punctate from both sides; midrib pronounced be- 

 neath, sunken along the upper side especially at the base 

 and with the leaf sides curving over the caniculation, dark 

 brown when dry; lateral nerves 7 to 9 pairs, ascendingly 

 curved, rather fine, reticulations not evident. Inflorescence 

 densely clustered in the lowermost leaf axils, pendant in 

 the bud state, at most 1.5 cm long; stalks solitary and 

 numerously branched from near the base or with a few stalks 

 arising from the base and sparingly rebranched, all fulvus 

 pubescent, thick, more or less angular, the branchlets sub- 

 tended by bract vestiges; pedicels 3 mm in length, densely 

 cinnamon brown puberulent, 0.75 mm thick, subtended at 

 the base, the 5 segments ultimately spreading, triangularly 

 oblong, 1.25 mm long, minutely puberulent on the bark 

 especially toward the base, otherwise glabrous, dark reddish 

 brown punctate, margins hyaline and provided with very 

 minute cilia; petals 5, alternating with the calyx teeth, 

 2.5 mm long by 1.5 mm wide at the middle, elliptic, 

 submembranous, glabrous, glandular, imbricate in the bud 

 state; stamens as many, subsessile, nearly as long as the 

 petals, obtuse at the apex, base auriculately lobed, basifix- 

 ed, laterally dehiscent; connective darker brown and more 

 or less glandular; style 2 mm long, strict, glandular and 

 less in diameter at the apex, base conically expanded or 

 ovary like; stigma very small. Fruiting pedicels nearly twice 

 as long, glabrate; fruit dark wine red when mature, flatly 

 globose, shining, subtended by the 5 rather small brownish 

 calyx segments, apex quite conspicuous, 8 mm in diameter 

 or smaller. 



Type specimen number 14169, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ober, 1912. 



Discovered this rare and very distinct Ardisia in wet 

 alluvial soil among dense jungled woods bordering the lower 

 end of lake Danao at 5000 feet altitude. Its vernacular 



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