1498 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 75 
bud ovoidly elongated, 5 mm. long; petals imbricate but not 
twisted, 5, nearly free, glabrous, thick, reddish glandular on the 
inner side above the middle, the entire and glabrous margins 
rather sharp, oblongish, acute at apex, 6 mm. long, 2.5 mm. 
wide at or below the middle; anthers of an equal number and about 
as long, ovately linear and sloping to a fine point, upon a very 
short and flattened filament, inserted upon the basal portion 
of the petals and opposite them, introrse, somewhat triangular, 
the connective on the back blackish streaked or continuously 
glandular; ovary glabrous, ellipsoid, 1 mm. long; style 2.5 mm. 
long, terete, gradually tapering to the minute apex, also gla- 
brous; fruits dark red, globose, only the base a trifle flattened, 
1 em. in diameter, subtended by the 5-segmented persistent 
reddish colored calyx. 
Type specimen 12192, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
Collected in moist gravelly soil of woods along the Sinuban 
creek at 750 feet altitude. ''Lo-lumboy" is the Visayan name. 
Only distantly related to A. serrato-brevipetiolata Merr. 
Ardisia gitingensis Elm. n. sp. 
A burly tree; stem 3 dm. thick, 10 m. high, its main branches 
arising from the middle; bark smoothish, yellowish gray; wood 
reddish, quite hard and brittle, bitter, odorless; branchlets wide- 
ly spreading, crookedly rebranched, the glabrous twigs more or 
less crowded toward the ends, the ultimate ones slender and 
usually curved. Leaves chiefly horizontal, coriaceous, slightly 
darker green on the upper shallowly folded surface, curing avella- 
neus beneath, darker brown on the upper side, alternatingly 
crowded toward the ends of the grayish twigs and beneath the 
foliage, the entire margins subinvolute, broadly oblanceolate or 
obovately oblong, apex, obtuse, base also obtuse or subcuneate, 
glabrous, minutely punctate beneath, the larger blades 8 cm. 
long and 3 em. wide above the middle; midvein prominent, the 
9 to 13 lateral pairs of nerves very obscure; petiole 1.25 em. long, 
glabrous, subcompressed. Inflorescence erect or nearly so, yellow- 
ish red except the pink corolla and deep purple anthers with yellow 
apices, spicately paniculate, 1 to 2 dm. long, rigid, the main 
grayish brown stalks striately ridged; branches alternatingly 
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