January 11, 1911] New AND NOTEWORTHY RUBIACEAE 997 
middle, deep red or nearly orange color on the upper pul- 
verulent surface, lighter yellow on the lower side and with 
3 parallel veins, apex rounded or apiculate; stamens 5, 
attached to the middle of the tube; filaments 1 mm. long, 
adnate to the corolla tube, glabrous; anthers linear, 5 mm. 
long, bifid at the base, attached on the back below the 
middle; style filiform, glabrous, 2-lobed; fruit greenish brown, 
2 cm. long, ellipsoid or the base more tapering, pilose in 
the younger state, with grayish white excrescences, 2-celled; 
seeds at least 0.5 mm. thick, subglobose, pitted, dark brown, 
very numerous. 
Type specimen 12451, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Not rare in the shrubberies or light woods along the 
coast and in the foothills. A handsome shrub and is known 
to the Visayan as ''Agboy." 
Differentiated from M. anisophylla Vid. by the different 
calyx segments and glabrous corolla tube, combined with other 
characters. 
LUCINAEA DC. 
j Pause monocephala Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. V; 241, 
910. 
Based on Bureau of Science number 10034, collected by 
Maximo Ramos near Dahican, province of La Laguna, Luzon. 
Lucinaea involucrata Elm. n. sp. 
Scandent shrub; stems numerously branched all along, 
1 cm. thick, terete, bendable; branchlets numerous and 
forming a dense tangled mass about its support; the glabrous 
and greenish twigs curvingly erect. Leaves thickly coria- 
ceous, quite brittle when old, ascending, nearly flat, shin- 
ing dark green on the upper surface which turns nearly 
black while drying, much paler green beneath and becoming 
brown in the dry state, oblong or elliptish, the average or 
larger blades 7.5 cm. long, 8 cm. wide across the middle 
or just above this, the entire margins involute in the dry 
state, apex obtuse to acute, base acute to subcuneate, gla- 
