APRIL 20, 1912] Two Score or New PLANTS 
wide, toward 1 em. long, carnosus, oblong and with blunt ends, 
glabrous or only very finely puberulent especially along the edges; 
stamens erect, 10, fertile, in 2 series; the longer filaments equalling 
the corolla, rather fleshy, also carnosus, with few scattering tack 
shaped glands, subterete; the shorter ones alternating, only 
2 to 3 mm. long, thinner, otherwise similar, united at the base 
with the longer filaments; anthers yellowish red, ovately orbicular, 
less than 1 mm. across, bilobed at the base, attached in the sinus; 
ovary hairy, short ellipsoid, 2 mm. long; style also flesh red, 3 
to 4 mm. long, terete, puberulent or pulverulent, bearing an irreg- 
ularly lobed stigmatic disk; fruits somewhat immature, elong- 
ated, obovoid or thickly oblanceoloid or tapering toward both 
ends, nearly stipitate at the base, 3 cm. long, slightly compressed 
and inequilateral, tinged yellowish when mature, with a single 
ovule, glabrous, minutely striate longitudinally at least in the dry 
state. 
Type specimens 12069 for flower and 12305 for fruit, A. D. E. 
Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island 
of Sibuyan, March to April, 1910. 
In forests at 750 feet along the Patoo river and on a ridge 
at 1000 feet altitude. The fruiting specimen was named by my 
Visayan companion as ‘Bago-bago.” 
As to our Philippine species it is nearest related to C. halliert 
Merr. 
RUTACEAE. 
Evodia laxa Elm. n. sp. 
Lax undershrub; stem 2.5 em. thick, 1 to 2 m. high, branched 
from near the base; branches crooked, laxly rebranched, the twigs 
glabrous and suberect; wood soft, tasteless, slightly fetid, whitish 
with yellowish brown center; bark smooth, yellowish gray. Leaves 
membranous or subchartaceous, horizontally scattering, flat 
except the abruptly recurved or occasionally obtuse acute apex, 
deep dull green above, only a trifle paler beneath, drying brown- 
ish green on both sides, glabrous, finely pellucid punctate on both 
surfaces, entire, opposite, diverse in size and quite variable in 
shape, bluntly obtuse to subeuneate at the base, oblongish or obo- 
