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bark; branche-? divaricate, seldom rebranched, green, the ter- 

 minal ones shorter; leaves submembranous, horizontal or 

 descending, flat with recurved tips, lighter green beneath; 

 flowers solitary or in axillary pairs, ascending, straxnineus; 

 corolla caducous and soft in texture; calyx yellowish green, 

 bracts dark green; fruits sessile, also ascending, ovoidly ellip- 

 soid, fully 0,5 inch long, bearing the calyx segments, dark 

 cyaneus in color, soft, its meat white, with 4 stone seeds, 

 somewhat juicy. 



Represented by number 14041, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 

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



Collected in well drained and deeply humus covered 

 soil upon steep forested ravines at 3500 feet altitude, between 

 Duros and Cawilanan peaks. "Abohon" in Manobo. 



Lasianthus microphyllus Elm. n. sp. 



A lax and reclining shrub; stems several from the same 

 root cluster or branched from near the base, green, terete, 8 mm. 

 thick, 1 m. long," numerously rebranched, crooked; twigs 

 flexible, quite numerous toward the end of the main branch- 

 es or stems, spreading, the green apical portion subglabrous. 

 Leaves opposite, well scattered along the branchlets, copious, 

 submembranous, horizontal, glabrous except the nerves be- 

 neath, obtusely rounded at the base, the recurved apex slen- 

 derly and sharply acuminate or caudate and usually subfal- 

 cate, drying nearly equally brown on both sides, entire, ovate 

 to elliptic oblong, the lamina 5 cm. long, 0.75 cm. wide at 

 the middle though frequently smaller; midrib quite promi- 

 nent beneath and minutely puberulent; lateral nerves 4 pairs, 

 much ascendingly curved, very similar in vestiture, tips 

 obscurely united just beneath the edge, cross reticulations 

 faint yet equally visible from both sides; petiole less than 

 5 mm. long, appressed puberulent, finally glabrous, slender; 

 bud bracts in pairs, divaricately recurved, slenderly acuminate, 

 less than 5 mm. in length, olivaceus short pubescent, decid- 

 uous. Flowers erect, solitary or in small axillary clusters; calyx 

 glabrous, 2 mm. long, narrowed toward the base, divided to the 

 middle into 5 rather narrow and sharply pointed teeth whose outer 

 tips are sparsely ciliate; corolla deciduous, 6 to 7 mm, long, 



