September 12, 1913] Rubiaceae prom moumt Urdaneta 1887 



specimen collected on Balabac island. "Anislag" is the native 

 Manobo name. 



PLECTRONIA Linn. 

 Plectronia cyanea Elm. n. ap. 



Low though erect undershrub; stem terete, 2.5 cm. thick, 

 1 to 3 m. high, branched from below the middle; wood quite 

 tongh, yellowish white, bitterish and slightly odorous; bark 

 grayish green, smooth, deep green beneath the epidermis; 

 branches divaricate, the lower or longer ones few rebranch- 

 ed, green though grayish when dry, more numerous and much 

 shorter toward the top of the stem, the young portion com- 

 pressed at the joints and angular. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, 

 well scattered, ascending or horizontal, gracefully recurved at 

 the sharply acuminate apex, base cuneate or merely obtuse, 

 oblong, widest across the 'iddle, oblong, the blades 12 cm. 

 long and one third as wide, entire, drying grayish green or 

 brownish, glabrous; midrib quite conspicuous and dark brown 

 beneath, plane above, lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each side, 

 divaricate, occasionally branched toward their ends which are 

 interarchingly united about 5 mm. below the edge, plain 

 from both sides; petiole nearly black in the dry state, 

 5 mm. long, more or less prominently caniculate, glabrous 

 even when young; stipule thick, also glabrous, very 

 short and apiculate, persistent. Infrutescence in the lower 

 leaf axils or from the axils of the leaf scars; peduncle usually 

 solitary, very slender, green and smooth, compressed, 1 

 cm. long, very shortly branched and thickened, bearing at 

 the distal end a few flowers or only one fruit; calyx greenish 

 white, corolla white and subterete; ripe drupes upon short pedicels, 

 divaricate or subpendant, ovoidly compressed, less then 1 

 cm. long, somewhat foetid, juicy and dark cyaneus, rugosely 

 compressed in the dry state, impressed on each flattened 

 side, generally one side is defective thereby giving it on 

 unsymmetric appearance; stone seeds 2, smooth on the inner 

 face, otherwise rugose. 



Type specimen number 13854, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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



