LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. IV. Manila, P. I, January 22, 1912. Art. 70 
PALAWAN RUBIACEAE 
By 
A. D. E, Elmer 
ANTIRRHOEA Comm. 
Antirrhoea philippinenses (Benth,) Rolfe. 
Field-note:—Shrubs; stem few inches thick, subterete, 10 
to 15 feet high, branched from below the middle; wood hard, 
heavy, odorless and tasteless, dingy white or brownish in the 
center; bark thin, yellowish except the rather smooth and gray 
epidermis; branches spreading, finely and laxly rebranched; 
leaves membranous, nearly flat and with recurved tips, a trifle 
paler beneath; flowers subpendant; corolla green as the calyx 
but in full anthesis turning yellowish or even orange red; fruit 
juicy, obscurely angular and with roundly truncate ends, 0.33 
inch long, deep purple. 
Represented by number 13237, Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. 
Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 
Gathered from seepage ledges along the wooded flanks of 
the Iwahig river at 1000 feet. 
Not quite typical, for the leaves are fewer nerved and less 
hairy beneath. 
Antirrhoea livida Elm. n. sp. 
A shrub; stem 7.5 em. thick, 3 to 5 m. high, its ascending 
