1200 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 66 
elliptic, base quite broad and leathery, deciduous; filaments 3 
mm. long, subcompressed toward the base and narrowed toward 
the distal end, glabrous, azure blue; anthers of the same color, 
the basal two thirds extended into an ascendingly curved rather 
sharp point, dehiscing along the upper ventral side, 2.5 mm. 
long; the filaments attached to above the middle, the side below 
it folded, at least 1 mm. thick across the top; style glabrous, 5 
mm. long, terete, gradually tapering from the base to the small 
stigmatic point, whitish at the base, bluish toward the tip. 
Type specimen 11697, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
This species inhabits fertile humus covered soil of deep 
woods, or forests of the mount Apo basin at 4000 feet altitude. 
“Malabasag”’ is the Bagobo name, and its flowers are noted as 
being sweetly fragrant. 
Probably most resembling M. edule Rozb. 
Memecylon sorsogonense Elm. n. sp. 
Shrub, 3 to 5 m. high, the slender and sparingly rebranched 
branches horizontal or reclining over adjoining shrubs; twigs 
glabrous, green, angularly winged. Leaves opposite, sessile, 
glabrous, thick and very rigid, entire, ovately oblong, curing 
brown, the average ones 2.5 dm. long by 1 dm. wide below the 
middle, gradually tapering to the bluntly obtuse apex, base 
cordate; midvein dark brown in the dry state, prominent beneath; 
lateral pairs 9 to 13, ascending, similar in color but much less 
prominent, subparallel, frequently alternating with secondary 
ones, interarching and forming a conspicuous submarginal line 5 
to 7.5 mm. from the edge, the few and coarse reticulations quite 
obscure and mainly at the distal ends of the secondary nerves. 
Inflorescence terminal or from the uppermost leaf axils, about 
7.5 em. long, twice as long in the fruiting state; peduncle glabrous, 
grooved along the sides, less than 5 cm. long, umbellately branched 
at the distal end; branches striately angular, very unequal in 
length, the longer or terminal ones usually again branched in a 
similar manner, subtended by sharply pointed deciduous brac- 
teoles; pedicels of numerous flowers very slender, glabrous, 2 
mm. long, subtended at the base by a minute rim of bract vestiges; 
calyx reddish blue, glabrous, broadly turbinate, 2 mm. high, 
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