Settkmber 12, 1913] Rubiaceae from Mount Urdankta 1857 



very irregular, heavy, looping, numerously branched toward 

 the top and forming hanging masses; wood bitterish, murky 

 white, odorless, pnlpy; bark sraoothish, dull brown, green on 

 the branchlets; leaves coriaceous, descending, curved upon the 

 upper deeper green surface, apex recurved; inflorescence from 

 the longer somewhat drooping branches, erect, the stalks and 

 Ciflyx green; the recurved petals creraeus and also erect; capsules 

 green, compressed, 2-celled, each cell with a fleshy rugosely pla- 

 cental column; seeds numerous, flattened, brown, ciliately winged. 



Represented by number 13355, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 

 Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 1912. 



On a windy forested ridge at 2000 feet altitude of Gi- 

 wantanan. "Talotagdund" is the Manobo name. 



It seems to differ in a number of details from C. fla- 

 vescens Korth., primarily in the fruit, calyx lobes and some- 

 what in the leaves. 



QEOPHILA Don 

 Qeophila herbacea (Linn.) Sch. 



Field -note: — Trailing herbs; stems flexible, greenish white, 

 terete, branched; petioles erect, similarly colored, blades 

 horizontal, thinly coriaceous, flat, much paler green beneath; 

 flowers from the leaf axils, erect, upon pale green pedicels, 

 the calyx tips deeper green, odorless, pure white; berries 

 shining miniatus, subglobose, bearing the green calyx seg- 

 ments, juicy and with few to several stony seeds, oc- 

 casionally few clustered. 



Represented by number 13325, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 

 Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 1912. 



Forming dense mats in moist more or less humus cov- 

 ered flats of secondary forests at 500 feet altitude. "Ma- 

 malapandan" in the Manobo dialect. 



QREENEA W. et A. 



Greenea hirsuta Elm. n. sp. 



Erect shrub-like tree; stem very irregular or crooked, 1 

 dm. thick, 5 m. high, its main branches arising from below 



