September 12, 1913] Rubiaceae from Mount Urdaneta 1901 



3 to 4 m. high, branched from below the middle; wocul 

 sappy white, rather soft, slightly bitter, odorless; bark dull 

 brown and gray, smooth or thinly checked at the base, 

 greenish otherwise; branches horizontally spreading, freely re- 

 branched, the ultimate ones drooping, glabrous, terete except 

 the flattened apical portion, curing greenish. Leaves rigidly 

 coriaceous, descending, also glabrous, paler green beneatli 

 even so in the dry state, entire, opposite, the slenderly 

 acuminate to caudate apex recurved, variable in size, broadly 

 obtuse or rounded at base, oblongish or ovately oblong, the 

 larger blades 3 cm. wide across the middle or a little below 

 it and three times as long; midrib yellowish brown and 

 prominent beneath, narrowly caniculate above; lateral nerves 

 6 pairs <a* less, ascendingly curved, similar in color ai.d 

 prominence beneath, cross bars rather evident beneath; peti- 

 ole 1 cm. long or shorter, when young puberulent along the 

 upper obscurely caniculate side; stipule short and rim-like; bud 

 bract setaceously acuminate, 6 mm. long, faintly grayish 

 puberulent on the outside. Inflorescence or infrutescence 2 

 to 3 cm. long, from the leaf axils, similarly spreading; peduncle 

 about two thirds that length, subterete, in the flowering state 

 puberulent, usually solitary, at the distal end and generally cue 

 third below it provided with whorls of 3 or more sharply acute 

 bracts; flowers terminal, 1 to 2 or S-clustered; pedicel slender, 

 spreading, the fruiting ones 8 mm. long, slightly puberulent in 

 the flowering state; calyx 3 mm. high, 1 to 2 mm. broader 

 across the obscurely undulate rim, glabrous, green; corolla 

 in the bud state ridged and well pointed, 3 mm, long, 

 united below the middle, caducous as a whole, glabrous except 

 the hairy throat; segments valvate, ultimately reflexed, sharply 

 acute, usually 5 but occasionally one or two more of a 

 smaller size, yellowish white; stamens normally 5, alternating 

 with the segments and inserted upon the throat; filaments 

 inwardly curved, short, glabrous; anther basifixed, 0.5 mm. 

 long, emarginately truncate at base, apex more pointed ; 

 young fruits green, when mature orange red, the largest 

 ones in the fresh state nearly 1 cm. across, when dry much 

 smaller, compressed, globose, bearing the persistent calyx rim ; 

 seeds very numerous, imbedded in a pulpy mas«, light brown, 

 subglobose or short ellipsoid, beautifully pitted. 



