March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six Nbw Species— II 2783 



cm long, shining, red and turning purple when fully ripe, 

 with a large dull red seed. 



Type specimen numbers 10553 and 10660 with flowers 

 and 11867 with fruit, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 

 District of Davao, Mindanao, May for the flowering speci- 

 mens and September for the fruiting number, 1909. 



Rather common in ravines or upon ridges of secondary 

 forests from 2500 to 3750 feet elevation. The vernacular 

 Bagobo name for all numbers is "Pamaluyan." 



Remarkable for its tree size and large fruits. Through 

 an oversight it was omitted in my article on the mount 

 A po Myrsinaceae. 



Embelia urdanetensis Elm. n. sp. 



A small tree climber and sprawling over its top; stem 

 very tough, 1.5 cm thick, densely lenticelled, terete; main 

 branches long, flexible, rebranched, the free ends hanging; 

 wood white, moderately soft, odorless and quite tasteless; 

 bark brown, yellowish white lenticelled, the inner portion 

 yellowish. Leaves glabrous, very copious, alternate, folded and 

 strongly recurved toward the acute to obtuse apex, at the base 

 varying from broadly cuneate to obtuse or even rounded 

 in the largest blades, entire margins subinvolute in the dry 

 state especially toward the base, obovately elliptic, 5 to 8 

 cm long without the petiole, 2 to 3 cm wide a trifle above 

 the middle, curing gray especially upon the upper side, both 

 sides under a lens appearing minutely black punctate; petiole 

 1 to 1.5 cm long, almost black when dry, stout, deeply 

 caniculate along the upper side; midrib prominent beneath, 

 deeply caniculate along the upper side; lateral nerves 10 to 

 15 pairs though with intervening secondary ones toward the 

 midrib, oblique, tips ascendingly curved, quite evident es- 

 pecially from the upper side, reticulations numerous and 

 also more evident from the upper surface. Flowers not seen. 

 Infrutescent panicle terminal, erect, 1 to 2 dm long, rel- 

 atively broad at the base; rachis stout, pale green, angular 

 or angularly ridged, glabrous or the young tips light pul- 

 verulent; branches alternate, similar in color and shape, 

 flexible, rebranched from near the base, yellowish pulveru- 



