Marcu 18, 1912] NEW  APOCYNACEAE 1453 
inner side from the throat down toward the stamens and short 
densely white hairy just below the stamens; segments 5, aver- 
aging 1 cm. long, rotately spreading, narrowly oblong or oblan- 
ceolately oblong, glabrous or short hairy on the upper side toward 
the throat; stamens 5, erect and forming a sort of a tube 2 to 
3 mm. from the base; filaments 0.33 mm. long, glabrous or only 
finely hairy; anthers 2 mm. long, truncate and subaurieulate 
at the base, lanceoloid, compressed, gradually tapering to a 
sharp point, ventrally dehiscing; style about 1 mm. long, terete, 
the stigmatic portion twice as long and as thick at the base, 
coming to a sharp point, ultimately apparently becoming 2- 
cleft. 
Type specimen 7833, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban (Mt. Be- 
nahao), Province of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 
Collected in shrubberies of light woods shirting the base 
of Banahao at 2000 feet altitude. Dedicated to Mr. Geo. C. 
Kindley, the supervising teacher at Lucban who has shown 
me numerous favors. 
Distributed as C. pilosa A. DC. but not at all that species. 
CHILOCARPUS Bim. 
Chilocarpus leytensis Elm. n. sp. 
A sprawling and subscandent shrub; twigs shining green, 
black when dry, subterete, glabrous, slender. Leaves oppositely 
scattered along the branchlets, nearly flat, with abruptly acute 
or acuminate recurved tips, acute to obtuse at the base, entire 
margins in the dry state subinvolute, elliptically oblong, beneath 
avellaneus when dry and blackish brown on the upper shining 
| side, glabrous, the normal blades 1 dm. long and 4 em. wide at 
E: the middle; midvein raised beneath, grooved on the upper side 
k toward the base; lateral nerves divaricate, parallel and straight, 
1 also conspieuous, tips interarehing and forming a submarginal 
line 2 mm. from the edge, toward 20 pairs, reticulations or cross 
bars none; petiole 1 em. long, slender, glabrous channelled along 
the upper side; stipule absent. Fruits few clustered along 
the distal portion of the ligneous 5 em. long axillary spike or 
infrutescence S =e few —— ovoidly mon dry and 
