January 11, 1911] New AND NorEwonTHY RUBIACEAE 977 
proper varying from 1 to 3 mm. long, ascending, strict, 
glabrous; flowers solitary or few, subtended by foliaceous 
bracts of unequal sizes, subsessile, provided at the base with 
a fringe of setae-like appendages; calyx in the flower finely 
puberulous, 2 mm. long, campanulate, its 4 segments acute 
and one half as long; corolla white, 5 to 8 mm. long, tu- 
bular, delicate, sparsely pilose inside about the throat;segments 
4, oblongish, apex obtuse, about 3 mm. long, reflexed; stamens 
5, subsessilely inserted upon the middle portion of the corolla 
tube; filaments glabrous, 0.5 mm. long; anthers versatile, 
whitish, included, 0.75 mm. long, oblong, lobed especially 
at the base, 0.25 mm. wide; ovary glabrous, brown, ob- 
scurely lobed, flattened, 2-celled, with numerous ovules in each; 
fruits ellipsoid, 4 mm. long including the green 1 mm. long 
persistent calyx lobes, pulverulent, splitting into 2 cocci; 
style exerted, glabrous, 5 mm. long; stigma bilobed, more 
or less flattened, the stigmatic surface granular or velvety; 
seeds arranged along a central axial placenta, irregularly 
angled, dark brown or nearly black, 0.5 mm. across, about 
12 in each half. 
Type specimen 12205, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. Git- 
ing-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910, 
An erect shrub in red compact soil of open places in the 
forests at 1250 feet. 
Related to, yet quite distinct from the Philippine H. parva 
Merr. and to H. havilandi King from Burma and Borneo, but 
different in many respects from the latter species. 
Hedyotis sibuyanensis Elm. n. sp. 
Erect or suberect shrub, 2 to 3 m. high; stems 3 em. 
thick, branched toward the top only; branches sparingly 
rebranched, more or less nodulose, green, smooth, terete, the 
ultimate ones divaricate; wood soft, greenish white, without 
odor or taste and with a large brown pith; bark smooth, 
greenish brown on the stem. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, 
flat, tips usually recurved, diverse in size, paler green be- 
neath, the smaller ones lanceolate, the larger ones oblongish 
lanceolate, averaging 15 cm. long including the petiole, 4 
cm. wide across the middle, sharply acuminate, attenuate 
at the base, entire, well scattering along the branchlets, 
