1340 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 70 
very soft, bendable, flavus, divided into several radial divisions, 
porous, sweetish, odorless, the yellow portions divided by the 
sappy white sapwood; bark brown to gray, lenticelled or ex- 
crescent; branchlets numerous, forming dense interlaced masses 
at the top, the slenderer ones drooping; leaves descending, thinly 
coriaceous, strongly folded upon the upper slightly greener sur- 
face; heads ascending, 1 to 3-clustered, verticellately spreading, 
green as the peduncles; the odorless flowers also green except 
the whitish hairs, caducous, the florescent heads less than 0.5 
inch in diameter; the immature fruits again as large, solid, 
yellowish on the inside; mature heads nearly 2 inches in dia- 
meter, yellowish. 
Represented by number 12928, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
Very common in thickets and light woods of flats along 
the Iwahig river at 250 feet. 
Morinda bartlingii Elm. n. sp. 
Twining and sprawling over thickets, forming more or less 
tangled masses; stem terete, brown, nearly 5 mm. thick, scatter- 
ingly branched, very flexible; branchlets usually in pairs, short, 
erect, leaf bearing, glabrous except the ultimate ascendingly 
curved tips; twigs roughened by the prominent leaf scars. Leaves 
opposite, scattered along the young twigs, terminally clustered 
in the old ones, diverse in size and shape, the young ones lan- 
ceolate, the mature ones obovately oblong, the larger blades 
5 em. long, 2 em. wide above the middle, entire, ascendingly 
spreading, submembranous, usually concave on the upper darker 
green side, dull brown when dry, soft pubescent especially on 
the nether side, apex rounded and merely apiculate, attenuate 
or cuneate toward the base; midvein evident beneath especially 
toward the base, lateral nerves obsolete; petiole 5 mm. long or 
longer; stipules caducous, brown pubescent, membranous, 3 
mm. long, broad, terminated by 2 very minute and slender 
points. Inflorescence terminal, upon 3 to 5 peduncles which 
in the fruiting state are softly hirsute, 5 to 7.5 mm. long, green; 
flowers sessilely clustered upon a pubescent somewhat thickened 
disk or receptacle, usually several in a head, greenish; calyx 
dark green, 3 mm. long, tubular, nearly 2 mm. thick, subglabrous 
