AcGusT 18, 1913] Four Score of Nkw Plants 1819 



Ardisia ochracea Elm. n. sp. 



A large forest tree; bole 1 cm. thick in diameter, 20 

 m. high or higher, terete, straight, chiefly branched toward 

 the top; wood quite hard and brittle, with conspicuous 

 concentric rings, whitish on the outside, gradually changing 

 to the latericius center, odorless and tasteless; bark smooth- 

 isb, prominently mottled, latericius except the epidermis; 

 main branches crooked and ultimately numerously rebranched; 

 the twigs lax and brown, glabrous even the young tips. Leaves 

 descending, coriaceous, nearly flat or only shallowly folded 

 upon the upper lucid side, much paler l)eneath, the acute 

 to acuminate apex strongly recurved, glabrous, usually opposite, 

 curing grayish brown; base broadly obtuse or rounded* 

 elliptic or ovately oblong, the average leaves 12 cm. long 

 by 5 cm. wide at or a trifle below the middle, the entire 

 margins recurved at least in the dry state; midvein con- 

 spicuous beneath, with 5 to 7 relatively faint lateral divaricate 

 nerves whose tips are branched and coarsely reticulated, 

 the nerves nearly as evident from the upper side as from 

 the lower, reticulations obscure; petiole black when dry. 

 likewise glabrous, caniculate, 1 cm. long. Inflorescence chiefly 

 terminal or from the uppermost leaf axils; peduncle 5 to 

 15 cm. long, somewhat recurved or drooping, glabrous, 

 green, racemosely branched from below the middle; hranchlets 

 similarly rebranched, subtended by small bracts; pedicels 1 

 to 5 mm. long, subtended by equally sized glabrous bruits; 

 flowers profuse, ochraceus, without odor; calyx of the same 

 peculiar green as the inflorescent stalks, glabrous, stipitate 

 at base, the 5 segments united below the middle, imbricate, 

 averaging 2 mm. apart, subtruncate at base and minutely 

 fimbriate; petals ochraceus even in the imbricately twisted 

 bud state, 4 mm. long by 3 mm. wide across the middle, 

 elliptic, free though imbricate, eglandular, entire, margins 

 considerably thinner; stamens sulphureus, also fine; filaments 

 1.5 mm. long, usually crooked at the base, conspicuously 

 rugose, gradually enlarging toward the distal end; anther 

 terminal, notched at the apex, the 2 cells widely dehiscing 

 laterally; ovary rim rugosely folded, aurantiacus, in each of 

 the 5 inner folds provided with a sulx;onical gland terminated 



