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APRIL 20, 1912] Two Score or New PLANTS 1497 
Collected in dry humus covered reddish soil of a forested 
ridge at 1500 feet of mount Giting-giting. ‘Betis’ is the local 
Visayan name. 
Related to A. mindanaensis Mez. and to A. marginata and 
A. pardalina of the same author. 
Ardisia sibuyanensis Elm. n. sp. 
An erect undershrub; stem terete, more or less crooked at 
intervals, 2.5 cm. thick, about 2 m. high, only few branched at 
the top or sometimes entirely unbranched; wood whitish, rather 
soft, with a large brown pith, odorless and without taste; bark 
smooth and grayish brown, the young twig portion nearly umber 
brown pulverulent. Leaves ascendingly spreading, flat, sub- 
membranous, nearly opposite, widely separated, shining on the 
upper glabrous surface, paler green on the subglabrous nether 
side, 3 dm. long by 1 dm. wide above the middle or across its 
widest portion, entire, apex acute or acuminate, obovately elong- 
ated, the basal portion narrowed and subpandurate, at the base 
obtusely rounded, occasionally very small or much reduced 
leaves either above or below the regular pairs; midvein promi- 
nently ridged beneath and usually umber pulverulent, glabrous 
ultimately, the upper flattened surface similarly pulverulent; 
lateral pairs 15 or more, divarieate from the base, ascendingly 
curved toward their tips, beneath similar to the midrib, the cross 
bars and reticulations quite evident from beneath and also pulver- 
ulent; petiole very thick, scarcely longer than 5 mm., fat first 
umber scurfy, finally longer and glabrous. Inflorescence ter- 
minal, 1 to 1.5 dm. long, slender, suber2ct or recurved, also brown 
pulverulent, at the base subtended by a series of imbricate and 
acuminately pointed brown bracts; branches alternatingly scat- 
tered from below the middle, subtended by 3 mm. long linear 
bracts, flower bearing toward their distal ends; pedicels 5 mm. 
long, very finely puberulent, similar in color, subtended by bract- 
eoles; fruiting pedicels 10 mm. long, deep red, terete, subgla- 
brous, thickened toward the distal end; calyx cup shaped, 2.5 
mm. deep, fully as wide; erect segments united toward the base, 
ovately obtuse, imbricate toward their bases, puberulent on 
the back, finely ciliate along the edges, quite thick and rigid 
reddish gland spotted especially on the glabrous inner side; corolla 
