March 27, 1915] 



Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 



279; 



at 1750 feet altitude. "Satagbak" in the Visayan dialect. 



Tn Zingiberaceae a botanist must know how to unearth the 

 flowers or fruits of certain species in the field. In this case the 

 collector thought these flowers represented a wild species 

 of ginger, so I was particular to locate its leaf bearing stems. 

 Quoting from my field label, — "The clumps seem to lie 

 loose in the fertile soil beneath the humus covering and no 

 connection was found with other living plants." A specimen 

 was however sent with my other Zingiberaceae to Dr. Ridley for 

 determination and who pronounced it a species of Christisonia . 

 Dedicated to Robert Wight who figures a number of species 

 of this saprophytic genus in his Icones Plantarum IV. It 

 is here for the first time reported from the Philippine 

 Islands. 



PITTOSPORACEAE 



Pittosporum subverticellatum Elm. n. sp. 



Small tree; stem 6 m high and 5 dm thick; wood 

 quite hard, sappy white throughout, sweetish, odorless; bark 

 grayish mottled, densely covered with large lenticels; branch- 

 es numerous, forming an elongated crown, the twigs 

 light gray and more or less lenticelled, the green young 

 portion glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, lucid green on the 

 upper folded surface, much paler green beneath, the short 

 obtuse or acutely pointed apex recurved, usually arranged 

 in subwhorls and becoming easily detached in the dull 

 dry brown state, broadly oblanceolate for the smaller blades 

 and obovately oblong for the larger ones, 1 dm long ex- 

 cluding the petiole and 4.5 cm wide above the middle 

 but frequently much smaller, glabrous, the entire margins 

 subinvolute when dry, cuneate toward the base; petiole 2 

 to 3 cm long, rather slender, cauiculate along the upper 

 side; midvein ridged beneath; lateral nerves 5 to 7 pairs, 

 oblique, tips becoming obsolete, reticulations minute and 

 only evident from the nether side; bud bracts imbricate, 

 linear and sharply pointed, hairy but soon wearing gla- 

 brous, very unequal. Inflorescence ascending or erect, axil- 

 lary or interaxillary, also appearing subverticellate; peduncles 

 solitary or few clustered, as long as the petioles, paniculate- 



