APRIL 20, 1912] - Two Score or New PLANTS 1483 
middle; peduncle strict, 2.5 em. long, solitary, suberect; branches 
opposite, divaricate, also straight, rebranched from above the 
middle, subtended by very blunt bracts; flowers clustered toward 
the ends of the ultimate branchlets, with a faint fragrance; pedicel 
1.5 mm. long, puberulent, bracteate at the base; calyx 1 mm. 
high, finely ciliate and puberulent on the back, the basal one- 
third united, the 5 lobes broadly rounded; corolla creamy white, 
5 mm. long, the upper 1.5 mm. divided into 5 subelliptie or oblong- 
ish lobes, puberulent on the outside; stamens 5, alternating with 
the corolla lobes and inserted upon the throat; filaments whitish, 
filiform, 2 mm. long, usually curved, glabrous; anther flattish, 
1 mm. long, elliptic, bilobed at the base, attached in the sinus; 
ovary ellipsoid, subglabrous or with a few short crinkled hairs; 
style 4 mm. long, whitish, terete, glabrous, curved and twisted 
especially in the. younger state, terminated by a greenish thick- 
ened stigmatic portion. 
Type specimen 12058, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
i Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, March, 1910. 
In compact turf soil along the Pauala river banks at about 
250 feet altitude. 
TAEDE 
Psi 
OLEACEAE. 
Myxopyrum philippinensis Elm. n. sp. 
Seandent by twining; stem terete, 2 cm. thick, flexible, 
occasionally branched but especially so toward the top; wood 
Soft, odorless, sweetish, sappy white, with a relatively large 
pith; bark yellowish, shredded; branchlets quite rigid, forming 
interlaced masses, angular, dark green, glabrous, the ultimate 
ones slender and drooping. Leaves oppositely scattered, descend- 
E ing, glabrous, deep lucid green upon the upper usually folded side, 
P much paler on the nether side, the obtuse or acute apex only 
| slightly recurved, subchartaceous, curing brown, broadly rounded 
at the base, ovately oblong, the entire margins minutely involute 
when dry, quite variable in size, the larger blades 1.5 dm. long, 7.5 
em. wide at the midle or a trifle below it; midvein ridged beneath, 
the lateral pair of veins less prominent and arising from the base 
or very near it, reticulations coarse and rather plain beneath; pet- 
