JANUARY 22, 1912] PALAWAN RUBIACEAE 1361 
branches divaricate, sparingly rebranched, forming an elongated 
crown; twigs suberect, roughened with scars, grayish green, only 
the young apical portion olivaceous hairy. Leaves thinly coria- 
ceous, ascending or horizontally disposed, much deeper green on 
the upper side, the young leaves light green, finely pubescent 
beneath, the upper surface soon becoming glabrous, unequally 
brown in the dry state, diverse in size, opposite, erowded toward 
the distal ends of the branchlets, apex obtuse but the tip very 
sharp and hairy, gradually narrowed toward the pandurate base, 
obovately oblong, 2.5 dm. long by 8.5 em. wide a trifle above 
the middle, margins thin and entire, 1 em. wide at the base; 
petiole stout, 3 to 5 mm. long, olivaceus pubescent; midvein 
very conspicuous beneath, similarly pubescent; lateral nerves 7 
to 10 on a side, strongly ascending and curved, also pubescent, 
cross bars faint; stipule deciduous, 1.25 cm. long, broadly ovate, 
terminated into a tail-like point which as well as the edges are 
densely pubescent, otherwise only sparsely so. Inflorescence 
erect, solitary and erect or when 3 the lateral ones divaricate, 
rigid, the stalks green and similarly hairy; peduncle 1 to 3 em. 
long, straight, stout, subtended by bracts, circinately branched 
toward the top; ultimate segments and basal portion of calyx 
densely tawny; calyx cup shaped, cinereous in the middle region, 
the truncate or 5-apiculate calyx rim tawny and 4 mm. across, 
scarcely any deeper, hard and rigid, sessile, usually subtended by 
small linear similarly colored hairs; corolla densely velvety on the 
outside, nearly 2 em. long, otherwise glabrous, gradually tapering 
from base to throat, creamy white; segments 4, reflexed or rotately 
spreading, fleshy and padded on the upper glabrous side, nearly 
1 em. long, oblong, obtuse at apex; anthers also 4, alternating 
with the segments, attached 2 to 3 mm. below the throat, upon 
short, flattened and glabrous filaments, dorsifixed, linear, out- 
wardly curved at the distal end, sharply sagittate at the base, 
strigose on the back above the middle, dull yellow or brownish 
so; style striate, terete, 5 to 8 mm. long, subglabrous or puberu- 
lent, minutely lobulate at the apex, 0.75 mm. thick. 
Type specimen 12705, A. D. E. Elmer, Brooks Point ota 
son Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 
Discovered in deep fertile soil of creek banks of well 
shaded woods at 100 feet altitude. The Tagbanuas call it 
“Bunkol.”’ 
