September 12, 1913] RuBrACEAE from Morvx TTroaneta 1869 



Represented by number 13527, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt, Urdaneta), Province of Agnsan, Mindanao, Aug- 

 ust, 1912. 



Here and there in densely forested regions at 3000 feet of 

 Giwantanan, in dry and deep foliage covered stony soil. 



LASIANTHUS Jack 

 Lasianthus dementis Merr. 



Field-note: — Erect undershrub; stem one or more from 

 the same root, 0.75 inch thick, terete, 6 feet high, branch- 

 ed from below the middle; wood soft, greenish, with a brown 

 pith, quite odorless and tasteless; bark smooth, dull green; 

 branches spreading or ascending, unbranched or very spar- 

 ingly branched, leaves chartaceous, ascending, flat, tips recurved, 

 much paler green beneath; corolla pure white; young fruits 

 green, the mature ones nearly one half inch thick and ir- 

 regularly globose, pendant, soft, with few to several stone 

 seeds, cyaneus except the white meat. 



Represented by number 13613, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 

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



In more or less stony soil of a steep wooded slope be- 

 tween Duros and Cawilanan peaks at 3500 feet altitude. 

 "Igbot" is the Manobo name. 



Lasianthus everettii Merr. 



Represented by number 14554, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 

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



Collected in well shaded rather fertile soil of small 

 depressions between Duros and Cawilanan peaks at an al- 

 titude of 3500 feet. 



Lasianthus copelandi Elm. 



Field-note: — Erect undershrub; stem 0.5 inch thick, 

 terete, a yard or two high, mostly branched at the top; 

 wood soft, greenish or yellowish green, with a large pith, 

 odorless and tasteless, covered with smooth yellowish brown 



