Marcu 18, 1912] NEW APOCYNACEAE 1449 
along the upper side, the lamina more or less decurrent along the 
sides of the upper portion; midrib prominently raised beneath, 
yellowish green, impressed along the upper side; the lateral 
nerves numerous, strict, parallel, almost at right angles from 
the midrib, very faint, more evident on the upper side in the 
dry state. Flowers not seen; infrutescence axillary, spreading, 
upon short glabrous peduncles, few branched; fruiting stalks 
or pedicels ridged or more properly angular, subtended by whorls 
of small persistent bracts, 5 mm. long; fruits 1 to 3-beaded, 
ellipsoid, the fully mature ones nearly 2 em. long, connected by 
similarly colored elongated constrictions, fusing from a yellow 
into orange red and finally claret color, the ultimate fruit bears 
an elongated mucronate point. 
Type specimen 12137, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. Gi- 
ting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
Of this rare species only one plant was discovered in shrub- 
» beries of light woeds of red soil underlaid with river gravel 
stones along the Pauala river at 1000 feet. The local Visayan 
called it ‘‘Hapinla.” 
| Only distantly related to A. selangarica K. et G. from 
which it can easily be distinguished vegetatively. 
A 
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CARRUTHERSIA Seem. 
Carruthersia  leavis Elm. n. sp. 
Seandent and sprawling over trees; stem twining, 2.5 cm. 
thick, terete, bendable, branched all along toward the top; 
wood yellowish white, odorless and without taste, very soft and 
porous; bark dirty brown, smoothish, testaceus beneath the 
epidermis; branches castaneus, terete, tough, numerously re- 
branched, forming interlaced masses, the glabrous twigs usually 
erect or nearly so. Leaves ascending, chartaceous, very dark 
green above and exceedingly lucid even in the dry state, paler 
beneath, only shallowly folded, tips acute to subacuminate and 
recurved, the young leaves much paler green, curing unequally 
brown or greenish brown, the larger blades 8 em. long by one 
half as wide across the middle, ovately elliptic or broadly oblong, 
base obtusely rounded, the entire margins subinvolute at least 
