January 11, 1911] New AND NorEWOoRTHY RUBIACEAE 1003 
like hairs; calyx 4 mm. long, suburceolate, subglabrous, 
the upper one third divided into 5 obtuse segments, the 
margins of which occasionally bear some clavate appendages; 
corolla conical, with strigose hairs at the apex, inflated at 
the base, separating into 5 segments nearly to the base, 
yellowish green; segments thick, light yellow, valvate, 2.5 
mm. long or longer, triangularly acute to acuminate, the 
terminal portions reflexed; stamens 5, inserted upon the 
corolla near the base; anther 1 mm. long, broadly linear, 
ends rounded or shallowly bilobed at the base; filament 
less than 0.5 mm. long, flattened, glabrous, attached to the 
back of the anther toward the base; ovary with a flattened 
rim; styles glabrous, yellowish green, 0.75 mm. long, free 
or slightly united toward the base, bearing terminal small 
stigmas; pedicels of the fruits 5 mm. long; fruits 5 mm. 
thick in the dry state, twice as large when fresh, globose, 
watery, snow-berry white, apex sunken and bearing the 
persistent reflexed calyx teeth, apparently 2-celled, with 2 
clusters of numerous seeds; seeds nearly black, angular, 
pitted, 0.33 mm. across. 
Type specimen 10831, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. 
Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, June, 1909. 
A spreading suffrustescent more or less succulent plant 
inhabiting very wet densely shaded ravine slopes or on seep- 
age ledges along the Sibulan river at 3250 feet. ‘‘Tabis’’ 
is the Bagobo name. 
This same species the writer collected a few years ago 
jn southern Negros, and was distributed under A. longifolia 
Wall. But it differs from that species in having stipules 
twice as long, inflorescence smaller and with a different branch- 
ing; fruits also much larger, not turbinate and entirely 
without the many vertical lines. 
RANDIA Linn. 
Randia pulcherrima Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. III; 
164, 1908. 
The type of this splendid species is 765 Mrs. Clemens, 
collected by her in 1906 in the lake Lanao region of central 
