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JANUARY 22, 1912] PALAWAN RUBIACEAE 1339 
middle atropurpureus portion; segments white, 5 mm. long, 
oblongish elliptic, imbricate in the bud state, rotately spreading 
or even reflexed in anthesis, 4; stamens of the same number, 
alternating with the calyx segments, upon the throat, subsessile 
or usually upon 1 mm. long glabrous filaments; anthers yellowish 
white, 4 mm. long, lanceolately linear, sagittate at the base, 
the emptied cells folded and more or less twisted, basifixed, 
verticellately spreading; style slender, also atropurpureus, 
glabrous; stigma of 2 recurved flattened fleshy forks, little ex- 
ceeding the corolla; ovary glabrous, well inbedded in the ealyx, 
fruits ovoidly compressed, about 1 em. long, 2-celled; its white 
meat juicy, glabrous, green but when exposed turning bright 
or light atropurpureus; seeds 2, circular, centrally attached 
on the hollowed ventral side, eonvex on the dorsal. 
Type specimen 12719, A. D. E. Elmer, Brooks Point (Addi- 
son Peak), Palawan, March, 1911. 
This species was found to be rather common in the sand 
gravelly soil of woods along the seacoast. I take pleasure in 
naming it after Mr. E. L. Filmer, assistant governor of Palawan 
and at that time stationed at Brooks Point. : 
It approaches most closely to I. philippinensis Merr. but 
specifically distinet. 
LASIANTHUS Jack. 
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Lasianthus obliquinervis Merr. 
Field-note:—A suberect laxly branched undershrub in moist 
fertile humus covered soil of dense forests at 1000 feet altitude. 
Represented by number 13252, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 
MORINDA Linn. 
Morinda philippinensis Elm. 
Field-note:—Scandent and sprawling; stem terete, made 
rough by very coarse excrescences, crooked, 1 inch thick; wood 
