September 12, 1913] Rubiaceae fkom Mount Ukdaneta 1899 



date apex the young ones very spiirsely grayish white, stri- 

 gose, both surfaces very finely marked with striije; midrib 

 raised and cinereous, strigose beneath, deeply impressed along 

 the upper side; lateral Jierves faint, mostly 2 but occasion- 

 ally 3, ascendingly carved, reticulations none; petiole averag- 

 ing 3 mm. long, at first ftilvus hirsute, caniculate, after fall- 

 ing leaving bristly scars or nodes; bud bract membranous, 

 7.5 cm. long, brown, at the base and on its outside pro- 

 vided with a brush of dark brown subpersistent hairs, caducous, 

 very finely pubescent on the dorsal side only, setaceously 

 pointed from the base. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicel re- 

 curved, slender, 1 cm. long, grayish brown puberulent, bearing 

 a single terminal flower; flowers subtended by a pair of sharply 

 acuminate setosely hairy 2 mm. long teeth; calyx 3.5 mm. 

 long, ovate but rather constricted above the middle or at the 

 calyx tube, bearing the acuminate slightly unequal teeth, brown 

 hairy on the outside; corolla yellowish brown pubescent, es- 

 pecially dense toward the apex, adnate in bud but separating 

 into 4 segments; stamens erect, from near the base of the 

 corolla, subse?!si!e, oblong; style short, thick, ciliate hairy be- 

 neath the 4-lobed stigmas. 



Type specimen number 14190, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ober, 1912. 



In the mossy wind swept forests of wet stony soil at 

 5250 feet altitude or just above the lake Donao. Called 

 "Badyong" by the Manobos and it was lodged fifteen feet 

 above ground. 



Nearest to T- epiphyticus Elm. 



Timonius urdanetensis Elm. n. so. 



A slender erect and shrub like tree; stem 4 cm. thick, 5 

 m. high, branched from af) >ve the middle; wood dull yellowish 

 white, odorless an 1 tasteless; bark smooth and grayish brown 

 on the surface, thin, yellowish otherwise; main branches not 

 long, ascending, neither numerously rebranched, the glabrous 

 twigs ascending. Leaves toward the abrupt and rather blunt- 

 ly acute apex, base broadly obtuse or obtusely rounded, much 

 paler green beneath, very unequally brown in the dry state, 



