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JANUARY 22, 1912] PALAWAN RUBIACEAE 1353 
white blotched; branches freely rebranched, very crooked, the 
glabrous ultimate ones suberect, rather slender. Leaves ascend- 
ing or horizontal, coriaceous, much paler green beneath, shallowly 
folded upon the upper dark green surface, drying blackish brown, 
acute apex recurved, cuneate or attenuate toward the base, 
opposite, more or less crowded at the ends of the twigs, oblanceo- 
late to oblong, entire, very small leaves usually mixed in with the 
larger ones, the larger blades 15 em. long by 4 em. wide above 
the middle; petiole glabrous, up to 3 em. long, flattened along 
the upper side, reddish brown when dry; midvein similar in color, 
prominent, also glabrous; lateral nerves less prominent, 9 to 12 
pairs, ascendingly curved especially toward their tips which are 
usually united, retieulations equally obscure from both sides. 
Inflorescence terminal, erect, green except the creamy white 
corolla buds, glabrous, solitary, 5 to 8 em. long, at the base sub- 
tended by a pair of foliaceous bracts, verticellately branched 
above the middle; the short divaricate branches subtended by 
very short usually ciliate involucral bracts; flowers few clustered 
toward the distal end of the branchlets, subtended by similar 
bracts, subsessile; calyx 3 mm. long, nearly as wide across the 
top, glaucus green, glabrous, more tapering toward the base, 
rim truncate or with mere vestiges of 5 teeth; corolla creamy 
white even in the bud state, oblong, nearly 1 em. long, glabrous 
except the yellowish gray woolly throat; the 5 segments oblong, 
with incurved apical tips especially in the early state, in anthesis 
split down to below the middle; anthers also 5, alternating with 
the corolla segments and inserted or adnate from the corolla throat; 
filaments bearded along the inner side below the anthers, other- 
wise glabrous and somewhat compressed; anthers oblong, with 
rounded ends; style strict, glabrous; stigmatic lobes fleshy, com- 
pressed, 2, rounded at the apex, granular; ovary short ellipsoid, 
also glabrous, rather hard, well surrounded by the calyx; infru- 
tescence 15 em. long including the peduncle, at least 10 cm. 
wide, subpendulous, green; terminal drupes sessile, the lateral 
ones short pedicellate, 7.5 mm. long including the calyx rim, at 
least 5 mm. across the middle, glabrous, varying from green to 
auranticus red and finally nearly black on the same infrutescence; 
pyrenes plano convex, 5 mm. long, elliptic from the smooth ventral 
side, only 1 obscure ridge through the middle of the back, other- 
wise obscurely rugose but rather plump. 
