1448 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 73 
long, short hairy on the outside, the basal one third pedicelled 
which in the fruiting state becomes elongated, the segmented por- 
tion narrowly eup shaped; teeth erect, ovate, 1.5 em. long, gla- 
brous on the inner side, valvate, united at the base; corolla 
tube 6 mm. long, 1 mm. thick, glabrous except the ciliate throat 
and tube to below the middle; segments 5, glabrous, ovately 
oblong and usually inequiteral, 3 mm. long, nearly as broad 
across the base, the upper basal portion occasionally hairy, 
- rotately spreading; stamens 5, inserted 2 mm. below the throat; 
free filaments 0.5 mm. long, slender, glabrous; anthers 0.75 mm. 
long, ovately lance shaped, basifixed, subaurieulate at the base; 
ovary glabrous, subglobose, 1 mm. in diameter; style slender, 
glabrous, 4 mm. long; stigma thickened especially about the 
base, more or less finely hairy; young fruits soft, terete, deep 
purple, ascendingly spreading, linear. 
Type specimen 13167, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 
Of this species only one tree was found in fertile soil of 
humid forests at 750 feet altitude along the trail to Napsan on 
the opposite coast of the island. 
Nearest to A. angustiloba Miq. of Java but follicles not 
pubescent and leaves smaller. 
ALYXIA Banks. 
Alyxia sibuyanensis Elm. n. sp. 
A scandent and sprawling climber; stem bendable, terete, 
1.25 em. thick, with soft pale white wood and a large pith; bark 
grayish, smooth or peeling in thin flakes, white beneath the epi- 
dermis, full of latex; branches few, widely spreading, sparingly 
branched, slender and more or less hanging. Leaves in whorls 
of 4, widely scattering along the branchlets, ascending, flat or 
slightly recurved at the very blunt or obtusely rounded apex, 
thick and rigid, pale green on the upper side, much paler or yel- 
lowish green beneath, glabrous, drying greenish, the entire mar- 
. gins strongly bent upon the lower side, elliptic or oblong elliptic, 
the larger lamina 15 cm. long by 6 cm. wide across the middle, 
obtuse at the base; petiole 1 to 2 cm. long, glabrous, caniculate 
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