January 22, 1912] PALAWAN RUBIACEAE 1341 
toward the truncate or scarcely 5-toothed rim; corolla angular 
in the bud state, green, subglabrous on the outside and on the 
inside of the tube toward the base, 5 mm. long, the upper two 
thirds divided into 4 or 5 oblongish segments; throat hairs whitish, 
profuse; segments with obtuse tips which are usually hardened, 
thickened and inflexed, ultimately recurved; filaments glabrous, 
slender, mostly adnate to the corolla tube, only 1 mm. free; 
anther, 1.5 mm. long, oblong, with rounded ends, subbasifixed; 
fruiting heads solid, easily separating from the persistent pe- 
duncles, irregularly or flatly globose, 1 em. across, bearing few 
to several persistent calyx rims, puberulent especially toward 
the base, aurantiacus when mature. 
. Type specimen 13037, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
| (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
| Only once found in an open spot of forests at 50 feet al- 
| titude, in dry well drained and fertile soil among thickets of 
grasses and low shrubs. Named after the celebrated botanist, 
Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling. 
It approaches M. longifolia Bartl. 
MUSSAENDA Linn. 
Mussaenda philippica Rich. 
Field-note:—Quite a slender tree; stem 8 inches thick, 
20 feet high, terete, crooked, branched from above the middle; 
wood moderately hard, odorless and without taste, dingy white; 
bark brown, densely lenticelled, pale umber except the epider- 
mis; main branches ascending, freely rebranched; leaves as- 
cending and strongly recurved, thinly coriaceous, deeply folded 
upon the darker green upper side; inflorescence erect, green as 
is also the calyx; corolla greenish on the outside, the segments 
on the outside with their tips very pale green, the upper side 
aurantiacus; the outer calyx segments of the outer flowers oc- 
casionally petaloid. 
Represented by number 12792, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
In dry compact soil of the cogon region bordering woods 
at 250 feet. 
UUWY 
