APRIL 20, 1912] Two Score or New PLANTS 1517 
ciliate bract vestiges; pedicel short or only 1 mm. long, glabrous; 
perianth 3 mm. long, campanulate, sübglabrous, united toward 
the base, the 5 segments all equal, oblongish and obtusely tipped, 
imbrieate; fertile stamens 10 more or less, arranged in an outer 
whorl; filaments 1.5 mm. long, pale white, somewhat expanded 
and flattened toward the base, strict, very finely hairy except 
at the distal portion; anthers more yellow, attached to the back, 
less than 0.5 mm. long and a trifle wider, ends truncately rounded 
and occasionally emarginate at the base; sterile stamens or stami- 
nodes in à central or inner whorl, as many and alternating with 
the fertile ones, 1 mm. long and bearing a brush of subhyaline 
hairs; pistils erect, slenderly elongated or gradually tapering 
from the base, 2 to 3 mm. long, the basal or ovarian portion gla- 
brous, the neck sparsely hairy, stigma subglobose and covered 
with a waxy bloom. 
Type specimen 12217, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
In woods along the sand gravelly banks of the Pauala river 
at 750 feet. 
Casearia glauciramea Elm. n. sp. 
A slender erect shrub; stem 7.5 em. thick, 5 to 7 m. high, 
not straight, with a few main ascending branches arising from 
below the middle; branchlets ascending, unbranched, wand-like, 
slender, glabrous, characteristically glaucus white; wood soft, 
sappy white, heavy, odorless and tasteless; bark brown or gray 
mottled, smooth or lenticelled. Leaves alternatingly scattered 
along the twigs, mostly erowded toward the ends of the branch- 
lets, horizontal, coriaceous, deep green on the upper more or less 
folded surface, only a trifle paler beneath, glabrous, curing black- 
ish brown, ovately oblong, gradually terminating into the sharply 
acute or acuminate apex, base truncately rounded and a little 
inequilateral, the entire margins faintly recurved in the dry state, 
the upper ones gradually reduced in size, the lower blades 15 em. 
long and 5 em. wide at the base; midvein prominent beneath, 
with 5 to 8 ascending lateral pairs of nerves, their tips reticulated, 
rather plain from both sides, cross bars and reticulations quite 
evident from both surfaces; petiole 1 to 1.5 cm. long, densely 
glaucus, at the base with a rim-like thiekening. Flowers suberect, 
