1820 Leaflets of PniLrppiNK Botany [Vol. V, Art. 93 



by a seta-like apex; ovary short, suhglobose, also glabrous, 

 bearing a large hood-like sessile flavus stigma. 



Type specimen number 12881, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 



Collected in rich humid forests at 750 feet altitude along 

 the Napsan trail leading to the west coast of Palawan. Its 

 profuse bads and flowers deck the tree crowns with a mantle 

 of yellow! 



Apparently not true Ardisia and may represent a new genus. 



Ardisia romanii Elm. n. sp. 



Erect but rather crooked trees; stem terete, 1.5 dm. thick, 

 7 m. high, branched chiefly at the top; wood moderately 

 soft, odorless and without taste, with conspicuous radial lines? 

 testaceus throughout; bark of the same color except the browa 

 and gray mottled smooth or minutely checked surface; branch- 

 es forming a rather small dense crown, divaricate, unbranched, 

 ascendingly curved toward their ends, the larger or main 

 branches occasionally rebranched, the young green portion 

 glabrous. Leaves light green when young and ascending, the 

 old ones pendant, rigidly coriaceous, usually somewhat fold- 

 ed on the upper side or nearly flat, much paler green or 

 subglauceous beneath, alternate along the branchlets, elliptic 

 or ovately oblong, apex roun-'led or broadly obtuse, base ob- 

 tuse or subcuneite, drying greenish or nearly brown, entire, 

 the average blades 15 cm. long by almost one half as wide 

 across the middle or above it, the lower ones generally much 

 reduced, glabrous; midrib very thick beneath, flat and grooved 

 on the upper side especially toward the base; lateral nerve^^ 

 about 20 pairs with frequently intervening ones arising from 

 the midrib and extending only one half the (listance, ob- 

 lique, relatively minute yet equally seen on b>th sides, reti- 

 culately anastomosing at their ends, the intervening reticulation^ 

 evident from both surfaces; petiole very stout, broadly furrowed, 

 1.5 cm. long, glabrous. Inflorescence glabrous, rigid, arising 

 from the uppermost leaf axils; stalks greenish, recurved, 1 

 to 2.5 cm. long, compressed, alternate, bearing an umbel of 

 flowers toward the distal ends; flowers odorless and caducous; 

 pe<iicel 7.6 mm. long, nearly one half as thick, glabrous. 



