March 27, 19151 Two Hundhed Twenty Six New Specks— II 2793 



relatively faint and straight; the main basal pair of lateral 

 nerves arising about 3 mm above the base of the lamina, 

 gracefully curved and extending into the apex, usually with 

 a faint basal pair, cross bars and reticulations obsolete. 

 Inflorescence not collected. Infrutescence 2 dm long on an 

 average, axillary or terminal, suberect, very few and panic- 

 ulately branched above the middle or toward the end; 

 stalks relatively short, subcom pressed, green though dark 

 brown when dry, glabrous as well as the peduncle, in the 

 early state subtended by minute linear bracts; fruits usually 

 3-clustered from the ends of the longer or lower branches, 

 the upper shorter branches with fewer fruits or the apical 

 fruits arising from the rachis, subtended by similar bracts; 

 pedicel like stalk or constricted portion of the calyx at least 3 

 cm long, slightly enlarged toward the distal or fruit bearing 

 end, otherwise brown, thick, trmcate at the apex and only 

 minutely 5-apiculate, cup shaped, 7.5 mm long or high, 1 

 to 2 mm narrower across the top, in the fruiting state 

 torn open along one side though persistent; corolla bud 

 elongated, white, the lobes strongly imbricated. Mature or 

 nearly mature fruits shining, green and finally purple red, 

 usually in divergent pairs, containing green cotyledones, 

 ellipsoid, 1.5 cm long. 



Type specimen number 10571, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

 (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 



Collected in the dense secondary forests of a ravine on 

 the south slope of mount Calelan at 4000 feet altitude. 

 The Bagobos call it "Allok" and it formed tangled masses 

 among the branches of a Glochidion species. 



It is not the preceding species. Neither is it Jasminum 

 crawifolium Blm. whose leaves are described as "ovalibus" 

 and the young branches "glanduloso-pilosiusculis." 



OROBANCHACEAE 



Christisonia wightii Elm. n. sp. 



Terrestrial and saprophytic, succulent; stem erect, short, 

 solitary or usually few branched and much winged toward 

 the top, 5 cm long, occasionally forming clumps, 1 cm thick, 

 striate, glabrous, dirty yellowish white or brown, the longer 



