1002 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
base, glabrous toward the base, short tomentose otherwise; 
fruit subglobose, 5 mm. thick, at best twice as thick when 
fresh, slightly scabrous, 2-celled, juicy, snow-berry white, 
surmounted by the persistent calyx teeth; seeds 0.5 mm. 
across, dark brown, angularly flattened, very numerous in 2 
dense masses. 
Type specimen 10504, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
A low undershrub in humus covered fertile soil in very 
moist densely forested flats at 4000 feet. Nowhere common 
and individual plants widely spreading. Apparently this same 
apecies has also been collected on Mindoro by M. L. Merrüt, 
numbers 11470 and 12076 of the Forestry Bureau series. 
Called by the Bagobos ‘‘Tabiscas-sering.’’ 
Very distinct from King and Gamble’s A. sortechinii from 
Perak. Also related to A. cauliflora (Reinw.) Miq. from Java. 
Adenosacme mindanaensis Elm. n. sp. 
Suffrutescent; old stems as thick as an ordinary lead 
pencil, terete, less than 1 m. long, yellowish or straw brown, 
sparingly branched, reclining over the steep slopes, the tips 
suberect. Leaves flat, spreading and descending, membranous, 
deep green above, grayish beneath, diverse in size, the larger 
blades 2.5 cm. long by 1 cm. wide across the middle, 
sharply acuminate and occasionally subfalcate at the apex, 
cuneate and slightly inequilateral at the base, margins entire, 
elliptish oblong, strigose on both sides, especially beneath; 
main lateral veins 11 to 13 on each side, faint, well arched 
and submarginally united, short brown pubescent, reticula- 
tions fine yet evident; petioles 5 cm. long but much shorter 
in the smaller leaves, usually provided with dirty brown 
short crisp hairs; stipule submembranous, oblong, obtuse, 
1 cm. long. Inflorescence terminal, deflexed, 5 cm. long, umbel- 
lately branched above the middle, arising from a pair 
of stipules; peduncle provided with brown crisp hairs, 2 
or 3-umbellately branched; flowers in small subsessile glom- 
erules of from 3 to 5, subtended by an irregularly lobed 
involucre bearing upon the upper side many clavate and 
distinctly stalked appendages, otherwise glabrous; pedicels 
1 mm. long or less, provided with transparent trichome- 
