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Leaflets op Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



lent, the ultimate fruit bearing branchlets greatly varying in 

 length, almost at right angle to its stem; fruits alternatingly 

 scattered from below the middle, only seldom opposite, up- 

 on very short yet distinct pedicels, globose, 2 mm in 

 diameter, mucronate at the apex, glabrous, reddish brown 

 spotted, ultimately becoming dark purpureus, at the base 

 subtended by the 4-toothed calyx; pedicel subtended by per- 

 sistent bracts; these bracts are 1.5 mm long, elongated, 

 sharply pointed, in the earlier state folded on the upper 

 or ventral side, when old reflexed, glabrate and with a few 

 large purple spots as is also the similarly spotted calyx. 



Type specimen number 13745, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ember, 1912. 



Gathered from the summit woods of mount Urdaneta 

 or Masay according to the Manobos at 6500 feet above sea 

 level. The natives called it "Buluan." 



H. N. Whitford's number 1308 from mount Mariveles 

 is the type in flower for Embelia whitfordii Merr. Number 

 453 of Dr. Whitford's collection from the same mountain 

 is in fruit. Our leaves are more distinctly nerved and upon 

 drying turn grayish, not dark brown as the Mariveles 

 material nor is our infrutescence pubescent. 



Rapanea glandulosa Elm. n. sp. 



An epiphytic shrub; stems few to several, 4 to 7 dm 

 long, branched from below the middle, 3 to 5 cm thick at 

 the base, terete; ultimate branchlets numerous, rigid, the 

 apical portion glabrous and ridged. Leaves terminally crowd- 

 ed, alternate though attached on all sides of the twigs, 

 numerous, obovately oblong, varying 4 to 7 cm long by 1.5 

 to 2.5 cm wide a trifle above the middle, the entire mar- 

 gins somewhat curved upon the much paler green nether 

 side glabrous, rigidly coriaceous, shining and nearly flat 

 on the upper surface which is covered with rather large 

 punctate glands, the lower side obscurely punctate, apex 

 obtusely rounded or broadly rounded and minutely emargi- 

 nate, toward the base cuneate, at the base decurrent, curing 

 unequally brown on both sides; midrib prominently ridged 



