1330 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 70 
glabrous except the pubescent throat; segments 4, ultimately 
spreading and recurved, oblong, obtusely rounded at the apex, 
splitting two thirds down from the apex; stamens 4, inserted 
upon the throat, alternating with the segments, upon short gla- 
brous filaments; anthers 0.75 mm. long, ovate, basifixed, sharply 
acute, emarginate at base; style 2 mm. long, hairy except at the 
base, the upper one half divided into 2 stigmatic lobes; fruit 4 
erect, glabrous, subellipsoid, ruber red, 7.5 mm. long, with few 2 
to several seeds imbedded in the rather juicy white meat; seeds 
brown, appearing striate or shredded, compressed, more or less 
elliptic, apparently attached to a membranous-like central pla- 
centa. 
Type specimen 13139, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar) Palawan, May, 1911. 
This fine species was discovered along a gravelly stream 
bed eoursing through a wooded flat at 500 feet altitude, between 
the two main forks of the Iwahig river. Common in this sitio, 
otherwise not seen. 
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GARDENIA Linn. 
Gardenia merrillii Elm. 
Field-note:—Erect shrub; stems strict, several in the cluster, 
l inch thick, 5 to 9 feet high, terete, only sparingly branched 
toward the top; wood odorless and tasteless, moderately solid, 
pith quite large, dingy white; bark grayish brown, minutely 
checked, yellowish except the epidermis; twigs green, divaricate, 
lax, relatively short; leaves coriaceous, horizontal, shallowly 
folded, paler green beneath, margins coarsely wavy; flowers 
strongly fragrant, erect, white especially the segments, calyx 
always green; fruit also erect, globose, smooth, hard, green and 
densely streaked with chocolate brown, when nearly ripe turning 
yellowish and become nearly 2 inches in diameter, each of the 1 
halves with more than several seeds. di 
Represented by number 13126, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 7 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
Gathered in dry compact stony soil of open shrubberies 
oe oe This is a handsome species, both in 
