1496 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 75 
alpine regions of humid moss laden woods, although in British 
North Borneo a small species is said to thrive along the seacoast. 
Recently the writer observed a large sterile species on mount 
Pulgar of Palawan. Some of its pitchers were a foot long and 
six inches thick! 
Apparently quite different from Blanco’s species. 
MYRSINACEAE. 
Ardisia oligantha Elm. n. sp. 
A very slender tree; stem terete, 7.5 cm. thick, 7 m. high, 
branched toward the top only; branches ‘divaricate, relatively 
short, sparingly but laxly rebranched, crooked or more or less 
curved, much thickened at the base; wood odorless and tasteless, 
whitish except the brown central portion, soft; bark dull brown, 
smoothish green and glabrous when young. Leaves curing green, 
subcoriaceous, mostly horizontally spreading, paler green beneath, 
glabrous, unequal in size, the acute apex somewhat recurved, 
acute to subcuneate at the base, the entire margins rugose, several- 
ly clustered in whorls, lanceolate to narrowly oblong, the normal 
blades 1 dm. long, 3 em. wide at the middle; petiole minutely 
grooved along the upper side, averaging 1 em. in length, also 
glabrous; midrib ridged beneath the lateral ones, about 7 pairs, 
ascendingly curved, tips running subparallel with the edge, scarce- 
ly united and minutely anastomosing, reticulations fine and a 
trifle more prominent on the nether side. Infrutescence terminal, 
drooping, varying from 3 to 5 em. long, the glabrous stalks pale 
green and grooved in the dry state, solitary or occasionally very 
short branched; pedicels alternatingly scattered, usually curved, 
1.5 cm. long, usually few clustered at the ends of the main stalk 
or branches, articulated yet subpersistent, glabrous, gradually 
thickened toward the distal end which bears the persistent calyx; 
calyx less than 5 mm. across, thick, the margins much thinner 
and very finely serrulate or apiculate, otherwise densely glandular 
punctate, the 5 segments united about the base and rather sharply 
and triangularly toothed; the obovoidly globose fruits dark green, 
- 1.25 cm. long in the dry state and finely striate. 
Type specimen 12310, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
