1004 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
Mindanao. Also known from mount Banahao. See Elmer 
9127 from Lucban which is in fine fruit. 
Randia whitfordii (Elm.) Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 
Suppl. I; 130, 1906. Gardenia whitfordii Elm. Leaf. Philip. 
Bot. I; 4, 1906. 
Common on mount Mariveles. In Randia the ovary is 
9.celled and the cell partition in the fruit is very thin or 
nearly obsolete, while Gardenia is 1-celled in the ovary as 
well as in the fruit. 
Randia wallichii Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. III; 113, 1880. 
Rather common, chiefly from Luzon. Previously referred 
by me to R. fitzalani Muell. Arg. 
Randia ticaensis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. V; 245, 
1910. 
The type specimen is Forestry Bureau number 12547, 
collected by Rosenbluth at Point Linadlaran, island of Ticao. 
Randia stenophylla Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. V; 
245, 1910. 
Collected by H. M. Curran at Norzagaray, province of 
Bulacan, Luzon. Forestry Bureau number 7170. 
Randia williamsii Elm. n. sp. 
A looping climbing shrub; stem terete, 2 cm. thick, 
quite rigid, occasionally branched; branches slender, sparse 
and divaricate, the twigs suberect and green, the free 
parts drooping; wood not hard, greenish, odorless and tasteless, 
that portion about the large whitish pith yellow; bark dull 
brown, smooth. Leaves submembranous, horizontal, paler 
green beneath, flat, opposite, widely scattering, glabrous, 
drying blackish brown, elliptic to broadly oblong, 2 dm. 
long, 1 dm. wide across the middle or a trifle below it, 
margins entire, apex abruply acuminate, base rounded or 
obtuse; midvein prominent beneath, with 7 to 9 oblique lateral 
