1452 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 73 
ovary obovoidly subglobose, glabrous; style 1 mm. long, glabrous, 
occasionally bifid at apex. 
Type specimens 11099 and 10926, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, June and July, 1909. ; 
Overtopping wooded ravines along the Baracatan creek 
at 1500 feet altitude or in the upper cogon limits. Quite com- 
mon and known by the Bagobos as “Cari.” 
Nearest to C. pilosa A. DC. yet easily distinguished by 
its leaves and flowers. 
Carruthersia kindleyi Elm. n. sp. 
A subseandent and sprawling shrub; twigs terete, when 
young olivaceus puberulent but soon becoming glabrate. Le- 
aves opposite, widely scattering along the branches, ovate to 
ovately oblong, apex acuminate, base shallowly cordate, the en- 
tire margins subinvolute in the dry state at least, the old blades 
glabrous except the nerves on the nether side, lucid above, the 
average blades 17.5 cm. long by 1 dm. across the middle or below y 
it; midvein very stout on the lower side and usually covered with r 
similarly colored strigose hairs, glabrous and grooved along 
the upper side; nerves about 7 pairs, also bold, divarieate, the 
basal pair less conspieuous, much ascendingly arched toward 
their tips, interarching or reticulately united, similarly pubescent, 
cross bars and coarse reticulations quite evident and minutely 
strigose; petiole 3 to 5 em. long, stout, subterete, especially hairy 1 
on the upper more or less flattened surface. Inflorescence 21 
terminal or from the uppermost leaf axils, erect; peduncles 5 
to 10 cm. long, stout, straight, subterete, finely olivaceus pu- 
bescent, usually solitary, once or twice verticellately branched; 
main branches 3 em. long, subtended by similarly short pubes- 
cent bracts, secondary branches much shorter, thick, provided 
by acute or obtuse ciliated bracts; calyx 3 mm. long, nearly 2 
mm. thick across the middle, the basal portion stipitate and 
subtended by a pair of bracts, glabrate except the 5 ciliate seg- 
ments which are 1 mm. long and roundly pointed, on the basal 
inner side with few flattened short linear appendages; corolla tube 3 
1 em. long, obscurely inflated toward the base, the segmented r 
portion short ovoid and imbricately twisted from right to left 
in TW bud state, glabrous on the outside, ad hairy on the 
