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Marcu 18, 1912] NEW  APOCYNACEAE 1459 
5, inserted at the middle of the tube, erect; filaments 0.33 mm. 
long, glabrous; anthers 1:5 mm. long, subeompressed, lance 
shaped or truncate at the minutely auriculate base; ovary conical, 
glabrous, 1 mm. long; style very slender, 3 to 5 mm. long, 
glabrous; stigmatic portion less than I mm. long, conically 
pointed, at the base surrounded by a brush of fine hairs; fruits 
few, divergent, ellipsoid, 1.5 em. long, less than 1.25 em. thick 
across the middle, purplish black, with a single stone-like seed. 
Type specimens 12378 for flower and 12062 for fruit, A. D. 
E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, 
Island of Sibuyan, April and March respectively, 1910. 
Often observed in wooded flats or upon wooded river banks 
from 500 to 1500 feet elevation. Common on northern Sibuyan 
but it is not known outside the central Visayan region. 
-This monotypic genus is based upon material supposed to 
have been colleeted on the island of Ternate. Our fruits are 
thieker and only one half as long, flowers much shorter 
and differently shaped than on herbarium material from 
Buitenzorg. The flower and fruit bearing portion is also 
shorter and the stalks not winged as in the Javan specimen. 
MELODINUS Forst. 
Melodinus apoensis Elm. n. sp. 
A tree climber; stem round, 2.5 to 4 cm. thick, crooked, 
branched, the branchlets spreading; bark dirty yellowish, rough- 
ened with tubercles and lenticels, the young bark with latex; 
wood yellowish, hard, odorless and tasteless; twigs terete, green, 
subpendulous, with ascending tips, rather coarse and heavy, 
densely brown puberulent, 5 mm. thick. Leaves descending, 
oppositely seattered along the branchlets, the more distal ones 
smaller, rigidly coriaceous, lucid dark green on the upper more or 
less folded surface, curing blackish brown, nearly glabrous above, 
sparsely cinereous beneath in the young ones and glabrate when 
old, gradually tapering to the strongly recurved acute to acumi- 
nate apex, base broadly rounded, ovately oblong, the entire 
margins slightly recurved in the dry state at least, the larger 
blades 15 em. long by 6 em. wide below the middle, frequently 
