January 11, 1911] New AND Norewortuy RUBIACEAE 1001 
Quite common in middle and northern Luzon; more 
recently several specimens were collected by Mrs. Clemens in 
the Lake Lanao region of Mindanao, besides a specimen from 
Zamboanga by each of Copeland and Williams. 
ADENOSACME Wall. 
Adenosacme apoensis Elm. n. sp. 
Lax shrub, 1 to 2 m. high; stem 7.5 mm. thick, easily 
breaking and covered with a smooth yellowish gray bark; 
branches sparingly rebranched, reclinate. Leaves thin, much 
paler green beneath, mainly horizontal, flat or only the tips 
recurved, opposite, glabrous or the larger veins beneath dirty 
brown scurfy, membranous or thinly chartaceous, drying 
green, broadly and more or less oblanceolate, entire margins, 
the average blade 2 dm. long and 5 cm. wide just above 
the middle, apex acuminate, base attenuate; nerves conspicuous 
beneath, 9 to 12 on each side of the prominent midvein, 
the reticulate cross bars quite evident; petiole slender, sub- 
glabrous or minutely scurfy brown, averaging 2.5 cm. in 
length; stipule submembranous and subglabrous, 7.5 mm. 
long, entire, brown when dry, triangularly acuminate. In- 
florecence a loose cymose panicle, descending, usually in the 
leaf axils, once or twice branches, 5 cm. long and about 
as broad; peduncle subcompressed, dirty brown scurfy, arising 
from a whorl of persistent dry straw-colored bracts and bear- 
ing 1 or 2 similar whorls; pedicels similar in vestiture, very 
slender, subtended by similar bracts, chiefly. in whorls of 3’s, 
the larger ones occasionally branched, most of them 2 cm. 
long; calyx 7 mm. long, elliptic, the base much constricted, 
rough puberulent or finely scabrous, abruptly divided into 
5 setose 3.5 mm. long segments; corolla bright yellow, 12 
mm. long, tubular, glabrous except the strigose hairs in the 
middle portion of the more or less narrowed tube; lobes 
5 triangularly oblong, valvate; stamens 5, just below the 
throat; filament glabrous, 0.5 mm. long, adnate to the 
corolla; anthers oblong, 2 mm. long, dorsifixed, acute at 
apex; style slightly exceeding the corolla 2-forked at apex 
although occasionally easily separating clear to the narrowed 
