September 12, 1913) Rubiaceae from Mount Urdaneta 1883 



entire margins very finely ciliate, the smaller lamina broadly 

 lanceolate and I cm. long, the longer ovately oblong ones 6 

 cm. long by 2 cm. wide below the middle, chiefly toward 

 the top of the gradually acute or occasionally acuminate 

 apex, rounded or frequently broadly obtuse at base; pet- 

 iole slender, varying 5 to 20 mm. in length, fulvus hairy; 

 midrib similarly pubescent on both sides especially so be- 

 neath; lateral nerves 6 to 9 pairs, asceudingly curved 

 but much more so toward their ends, often alternating with 

 secondary ones; stipule thin, brown, caducous, 5 mm. long 

 or longer, expanded at the base, otherwise subsetaceous, sparsely 

 brown hairy. Inflorescence erect, terminal, subtended by few 

 to several foliaceous bracts, very short; peduncle about 5 

 mm. long, only occasionally very short rebranched toward 

 the top, terminated by few but sometimes by several flowers; 

 flowers erect, subtended by seto.^e green ciliately margined bracts; 

 pedicel 1 or 2 mm. long, crisply pubescent or woolly; calyx 

 2.5 mm. long, oblong, finely pubescent, divided to the mid- 

 dle into 5 narrowly acuminate teeth; corolla 4 mm. long, 

 tubular, glabrous except the pectinately pubescent median 

 dorsal portion of the segments and the silky hairy region a 

 trifle below the throat; lobes 1.5 mm. long, triangularly 

 oblong, 5; stamens 5; glabrous filaments 2 mm. long, in- 

 serted upon the basal portion of the corolla; anther 1 mm. 

 long, oblong, flattened, bluntly rounded or emarginate at both 

 ends, subbasifixed; pistils glabrous, ovary rim fleshy, style 1 

 mm. long, the stigma nearly as long and with 2 compressed 

 lobes; capsule flattened, 5 mm. wide, 4 mm. high, appear- 

 ing flat or roundly 3-lobed but when old 2-winged from 

 the side view, midvein conpicuously marked and terminated 

 into apiculate teeth, broadly dehiscent along the upper side; 

 placentae fusiform, with numerous ovules; seeds 0.5 mm. 

 thick, deep brown, coarsely ridged and slightly angular, 

 otherwise globose. 



Type specimen number 14208, A. D. E. Elme)-, Cabad- 

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

 ober. 1912. 



Discovered in wet loam deeply covered with hunms in 

 a shallow ravine bottom of dense forests at 3500 feet al- 

 titude, between the peaks of Duros and Cawilanan. 



