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ember, 1912. 



Discovered in moist though compact reddish soil upon a 

 steep wooded slope of Cawilanan peak at 4500 feet altitude. 

 Thifl rare shrub the Manobos call "Tingaan." 



By the fruits it belongs to Plectronia rather than to 

 Lasianthus, although its general aspects are that of the latter 

 genus. 



Plectronia viridis Merr. 



Field-note: — Shrub; stem sub terete, 10 feet high, 4 inches 

 thick, crooked, branched from near the ground; wood odor- 

 less and tasteless, sappy white, rather soft; bark smooth, 

 green and brown mottled; branches spreading, the tips quite 

 crookedly curved and with suberect tips; leaves coriaceous, 

 horizontal, paler green beneath, margins usually coarsely wavy, 

 diverse in size; inflorescence erect, odorless, the stalks greenish, 

 the calyx nearly purple, the reflexed corolla segments melleus, 

 anthers orange red, pistil the color of the corolla segment; ripe 

 fruits yellow, finally vermillion red, fl^itly globose, 0.3 to 

 0.5 inch across, erect. 



Represented by numbers 13395 and 14055, Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusaii, Mindanao, July, 

 1912. 



Inhabiting damp humus covered soil on a densely 

 wooded steep slope at 2750 feet altitude of Giwantanan. 

 "Lobloban" is the Manobo name for 14055. 



PSYCHOTRIA Linn. 

 Psychotria agusanensis Elm. n. sp. 



Scandent upon small trees; stem flexible, terete but 

 crooked, 2.25 cm. thick, looping, branched at the top; wood 

 soft, porous, sappy white, odorless and quite tasteless; bark 

 thick, blackish brown and smooth on the surface, otherwise 

 nearly atropurpureus; branches rebranched, forming hanging 

 interlaced masses; twigs tough, only the green apical portion 

 obscurely angular and puberulent or fulvus pubescent at the 

 tips. Leaves copious, opposite, well scattered, thinly coria- 



