JANUARY 22, 1912] PALAWAN RUBIACEAE 1359 
main branches from near the middle, ascending, rather slender, 
rebranched at the top only; twigs relatively short, bendable, 
ascending, angular; leaves well ascending, coriaceous, folded 
upon the upper slightly darker green surface, nerves beneath 
greenish white; infrutescence erect, the main stalks seurfy brown, 
the pedicels dull green; fruits perfectly globose, glaucus, 2-celled, 
with a number of dry yellowish green trigonous seeds in 
each. 
Represented by number 12768, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
Collected in fertile humus covered soil of dense woods along 
the Iwahig river at 500 feet elevation. 
This species cannot be referred to Tarenna arborea Elm. 
n. comb. (Randia arborea Elm. Leaf. Philip. Bot. III; 1005, 
1911), which has pubescent under leaf surfaces and lateral nerves 
not at all oblique as in our present specimens. There are also 
floral differences. . 
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TIMONIUS Rumph. 
Timonius gammillii Elm. 
Field-note:—Shrub-like tree; stem 3 inches thick, rather 
crooked, 15 feet high, scantily branched toward the top only; 
wood heavy, nearly avellaneus toward the center at least, odorless 
and tasteless; bark ater, smooth; branches slender and spreading, 
the tips suberect; leaves thinly coriaceous, nearly flat, darker 
green and shining on the upper surface, horizontal, the tip more 
or less recurved; infrutescence descending, green, hard, sub- 
globose; fruits upon strict 2 em. long subcompressed hairy pe- 
duncles, nearly 1 cm. long, including the persistent calyx 
rim, subglobose, with truncate ends, avellaneus when dry, 
short but densely pubescent, usually 3-clustered, the terminal 
one sessile, the 2 lateral upon short divaricate pedicels and sub- 
| tended by a small sharply pointed bract; seeds numerous, more 
or less grouped into 5 or 6 masses and giving the fruit an angular 
shape; the persistent green calyx tube with a brown rim. 
| Represented by number 12734, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
| (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
