1196 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 66 
wide at the middle, elliptically oblong or ovately lanceolate, 
midvein evident, lateral ones none; petiole 5 mm. long, glabrous, 
yellowish brown. Infrutescence 1 to 3-clustered from the leaf 
axils; peduncles 5 to 8 mm. long, green, glabrous, crooked, few 
jointed or occasionally with 1 or 2 short branches, usually bearing 
only 1 fruit; pedicel shorter, very similar and forming the up- 
permost joint; fruits equally flattened at both ends, otherwise 
globose, less than 1 em. in diameter, with a circular scar at the 
apex, yellowish, roughened in the dry state, whitish when fresh 
and mature; seed crustaceous, with greenish convoluted cotyle- 
dons. 
Type specimen 12189, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
Discovered in clay soil with a gravelly subsoil on the wooded 
banks of the Sinuban creek at 750 feet. ''Anaba" is the local 
Visayan name. 
Related to M. gracilipes C. B. Rob. 
Memecylon odoratum Elm. n. sp. 
Strietly erect shrubs; stem 2 to 3 em. thick, 1 to 2 m. high, 
solitary or clustered, branched toward the top only, terete; wood 
quite hard, brittle, with a strong sweet odor; bark smoothish, 
grayish white; branches rather few, erect, rebranched, terete, 
the ultimate portion very smooth and yellowish white. Leaves 
opposite, heavy, rigidly coriaceous, erect, flat, glabrous, brown 
on the upper side and yellowish on the lower side when dry, the 
entire margin subrecurved, apex rounded or bluntly obtuse, 
occasionally faintly emarginate, base subcuneate, oblong or obo- 
vately so, the larger blades 8 em. long by one half as wide across 
the widest portion, frequently smaller; midvein prominent, 
grooved above, the divaricate lateral nerves few and very faint 
or obsolete; petiole yellowish green, glabrous, 5 mm. long. In- 
florescence in fascicles along the branchlets; pedicles glabrous, 
2 mm. long, subtended by profuse bracts; calyx 2.5 mm. long, 
campanulate, about as wide across the obscurely 4-apiculate rim; 
petals blue, 2 mm. long, ovately oblong, apex sharply pointed, 
at the base broad and abruptly constricted into a short claw, 
the basal sides occasionally ending into lobules and appearing 
hastate; stamens 8, all fertile; filaments 2 to 3 mm. long, somewhat 
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