‘January 11, 1911] New AND NOTEWORTHY RUBIACEAE 995 
Leaves ample, subcharteceous, ascending with recurved tips, 
rugose on the upper glabrous surface, paler green beneath, 
1.5 dm. long, 5 cm. wide a trifle below the middle but 
frequently much smaller, elliptic, ovately oblong or occasion- 
ally the smaller ones broadest above the middle, opposite, 
crowded toward the end of the branchlets, base obtuse to 
cuneate, apex acute to acuminate, entire; petioles dirty pubes- 
cent, less than 1 em. long; nerves sunken on the upper 
side of the blade, bold on the lower, parallel, ascendingly 
curved, 12 to 15 pairs, cross bars also prominent, all short 
dirty pubescent; stipule slenderly acuminate, 7.5 mm long, 
similarly pubescent, deciduous. Inflorescence erect, terminal, 
1 to 1.5 em. long, cymosely paniculate, nearly as wide across 
the top; bracts setosely acuminate, nearly 1 cm, long; flowers 
stipitate, not clustered; calyx elongated ellipsoid, 4 mm. 
long, 2.5 mm. thick, pubescent; segments 12 mm. long, 
linear, 1 mm. wide, coming to a fine point and with a prominent 
midvein, yellowish gray strigose along the edges and on the 
midvein on the dorsal side, occasionally a segment of the 
outer flowers petaloid, deciduous; corolla tube 3 cm. long, 
usually subfaleate, yellowish gray sericeous, slightly thickened 
above the middle; segments 5, ovately oblong to elliptic 
acuminate, free to the base, granular and deep yellow above, 
much paler yellow and pubescent beneath especially along 
the 3 parallel nerves, 12 mm. long, 5 mm. wide; stamens 5, 
inserted upon the middle portion of the corolla tube which is 
pilose on the inside above the middle; filaments flattened, gla- 
brous, L mm. long and free, otherwise adnate to the tube; anther 
linear, 7.5 mm, long, attached on the back below the middle, 
base acute and bifid; style glabrous, slender, bearing a forked 
stigma; fruit at least 1 cm. long, ellipsoid,. hairy in the 
young state, marked with grayish white lenticels, 2-celled; 
seeds very numerous, angularly globose, 0.5 mm. thick, 
light brown, pitted. 
Type specimen 10510, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
This rather dense shrub was discovered in light shrub- 
beries on Angat’s knoll at 4000 feet, in fertile soil, where the 
trail enters the densely forested basin of mount Apo. Called 
