AuousT 18, 1913] Four Score of New Plants 1817 



1 cm. long. Inflorerscence ascending from the lowermost leaf 

 axils or from the axil.s of their scars; peduncle subterete, 5 

 to 8 mm. long, brown pubenilent at first but soon glabrous, 

 .stout, straight, hearing an utnhel of flowera at the distal 

 end; pedicels 7 to 10 mm. long, slender, spreading, brown in the 

 dry state, glabrous, unequal in length, subcompressed; calyx 

 glabrous, ovoidly elongated, 7.5 mm. long, 4 mm. thick 

 below the middle, subcylindric, 3-8egmented toward the 

 truncate apex; the lobes chartaceous except the greenish 

 tips, 1.5 mm. long and as wide across the base, roundly 

 obtuse; stamineal column as long as the corolla, the basal 

 one third glabrous and fleshy, the apical two thirds baarini^ 

 the linear vertically arranged sessile anthers which extend 

 almost to the very distal point of the connective. Nuts 1 

 to 3-clustered, in the leaf axils or lateral, their thick and 



2 cm. long stalks shining green and pendant, egg shaped, 

 hard, yellowish green, the larger ones 5 cm. long although 

 not fully grown; seed relatively small and with a thick rind. 



Type specimen numbers 12820 in flower and 13166 in 

 fruit, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Pala- 

 wan, March and May respectively, 1911. 



Discovered first in dry stony soil of a forested ridge 

 at 1000 feet altitude, later in moist fertile soil of a densely 

 wooded flat at 750 feet elevation. 



MYRSINACEAE 

 Ardisia iwahigensis Elm. n. sp. 



A very slender but small erect tree; stem terete, 5 cm. 

 thick, 7 ra. high, branched toward the top only; sapwood 

 white, the central mass latericius, moderately hard and heavy, 

 without odor and taste, its radial lines prominent; branch- 

 es also slender, divaricate, crooked, terete, 7 cm. thick, 

 the lower ones 2 m. long, alternatingly crowded, unbranched, 

 very much thickened at the base, leaving large scars after 

 falling, the tips latericius scaly and ascendingly curved, other- 

 wise griseus; the old bark grayish white, badius inside. Leaves 

 well scattered along the branchlets, alternate, descending, 

 thinly coriaceous, nearly flat or only the acute to acuminate 



