Sbptkmbbe 12, 1913] Rubiacuae feom Mopht Ukdanita IS?"/ 



ers white, short; fruits whitish, salmon yellow ultimately, 

 juicy, ellipsoid, faintly streaked longitudinally, about 7.5 mm. 

 long, bearing the constricted and truncate calyx rim ; py- 

 renes about 3, obscurely triquetrous, 3,5 mm. long, nearly 

 2 mm. thick across the base, and roundly truncate, more 

 tapering toward the blunt apex, gr;iyish and somewhat black 

 punctate. 



Type specimen number 14083, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Octo- 

 ber, 1912. 



Wafted from the tree tops of the humid windy forested 

 region around the upper side of the lake Donao at 5250 

 feet altitude. 



Not M. apoensis Elm. because of its much smaller leaves 

 with slenderer petioles. 



NAUCLEA Forst. 

 Nauclea ateg^ii Elm. n. sp. 



A middle sized tree; stem 3 dm. thick, 7 to 10 m. 

 high, branched from the middle or below it; twigs rather 

 slender, drooping; the ultimate ones ascendingly curved, angu- 

 lar, short yet densely reddish brown puberulent, ultimately 

 smooth and glabrous, lax. Leaves opposite, descending, sub- 

 coriaceous, nearly flat, curing unequally greenish brown on 

 both sides, very unequal in size, narrowly oblong or elong- 

 ated, gradually tapering to the acuminate apex, b;ise truncate 

 and broadly auriculate or cordate, the apical pair usually 

 inequilateral at the base, from 1 to 4 dm. long and 3 to 

 9 cm. across the middle, the entire margins occasionally un- 

 dulate, glabrous on the upper side when old, rather soft 

 puberulent or short grayish pubescent, pleasing green above, 

 much lighter green beneath; midrib very bold beneath and 

 reddish brown when dry though yellowish in the fresh state, 

 grooved and nearly glabrous along the upper side; lateral 

 nerves 13 to 15 pairs, relatively conspicuous and similar in 

 vestiture beneath, oblique, tips strongly curved upwardly, 

 reticulations very minute yet quite visible from both sides; 

 petiole 5 to 10 mm. long, grayish short pubescent beneath, 



