March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2871 



spicuously 4-veined, with minute light yellow glands, its 

 pedicel when in flower scarcely longer but densely covered 

 •with glands; corolla at most 1.5 mm long, turbinate, 1.25 

 mm wide across the top, glabrate or puberulent especially 

 along the midveins, membranous, easily separating at the 

 base, bluntly 4-toothed at the apex; stamens 4, alternating 

 with the segments and inserted a trifle below the throat; 

 filaments 1 mm long, thread-like, glabrous; anthers 0.75 

 mm long, 0.5 mm wide, basifixed, notched at the apex, 

 lobulate at the base, flattened, dehiscent along the edges; 

 ovary globose, 0.5 mm in diameter, densely covered with 

 glands; neck 3 mm long, filiform, glabrous; stigma prom- 

 inently expanded. Fruits globose, almost 2 mm in dia- 

 meter, the basal one half tightly surrounded by the calyx, 

 sprinkled with light yellow glands; seeds apparently only 

 2 or at most 4, compressed, 1.5 mm long. 



Type specimen number 13536, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agnsan, Mindanao, Aug- 

 ust, 1912. 



Gathered in a small open glen of rich soil among the 

 woods along Giwantanan knoll at 2000 feet elevation. "Si- 

 madgimbajon" is the stifling Manobo name. 



Callicarpa epiphytica Elm. n. sp. 



Large epiphytic shrub; main stem 5 to 8 cm thick, 

 ascending, 5 m long or high, crookedly rebranched; wood 

 rather hard, whitish, a trifle sweet, odorless; bark 

 gray, minutely checked and scaling, testaceous except 

 the epidermis; branchlets ascending or horizontal, yel- 

 lowish brown scurfy, subterete. Leaves opposite, copious, 

 subcoriaceous, horizontal or descending, flat or only the 

 slenderly and sharply acuminate apex recurved, the upper 

 or smaller ones obtuse or occasionally obliquely obtuse at 

 the base, the larger or lower leaves broadly rounded at the 

 base, dull green when fresh and glabrous except the mid- 

 nerve, when dry brown on this same upper side, beneath 

 beautifully ochraceus scurfy or stellately puberulent in the 

 fresh as well as in the dry state, the smaller ones broadly 

 lanceolate, the larger ones ovately elongated, entire, the 



