March 27, 1915] 



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below the middle, usually with only a single stalk or 

 peduncle and subtended by a pair of small leaves; branches 

 opposite, widely spreading, subtended by sharply acuminate 

 appressed yellowish pubescent bracts, rebranched from above 

 the middle, similarly appressed pubescent, ultimate branches 

 nearly at right angles and at their distal ends bearing 

 a small cluster of flowers; pedicels 1 to 3 mm long or 

 longer, olivaceus pubescent, subtended by bracteoles; calyx 

 turbinate, dark green, 2.5 mm long, obscurely 4-angular, 

 concrete except the spreading 4 short teeth, glabrate or 

 yellowish gray puberulent, at the base subtended by a pair of 

 short but sharply pointed persistent bracts; corolla bud 

 globose, yellowish; segments 4, yellowish, alternating with 

 the calyx teeth, valvate in the bud state, ultimately be- 

 coming reflexed and early falling, subequal, triangular in 

 shape, the larger ones 2.5 mm long and 2 mm wide across 

 the base, glabrate or nearly so, acute at the apex or sub- 

 rounded; stamens also 4, alternating with the petals and 

 occasionally inserted upon their bases; filaments whitish, 2 

 mm long at least, glabrous, compressed toward the base, 

 pointed toward the apex; anther yellow, 1 mm long, ro- 

 tund, almost as wide, truncately rounded at the basifixed 

 base, laterally dehiscent; ovary crown light yellow, thick 

 and fleshy, glabrous, conspicuously rugose; style central, 

 erect, thick, likewise glabrous, ridged longitudinally, apex 

 irregularly truncate. 



Type specimen number 11644, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

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



Discovered in moist fertile ground of dense woods at 

 4000 feet altitude and along the northern bank of the Ba- 

 nning river. The Bagobo name is "Lamog." 



Possibly it should be referred under Premna rather 

 than under Vitex and to be compared with species belong- 

 ing to the Premna nauseosa Blco. group. 



VIOLACEAE 

 Alsodeia dubia Elm. n. sp. 



A rather large tree; trunk 8 dm in diameter, 17 or 

 more m high, terete, straight, with branches arising from 



