JANUARY 11, 1911] New AND Norewortuy RUBIACEAE 1005 
pairs whose tips well arched and are united, the reticulations 
coarse and quite evident, all smooth and dark brown or nearly 
black; petiole 1 cm. long, brown, glabrous; stipule or bud bract 
5 mm. long, broad at the base, setosely acuminate, deciduous. 
Flowers not seen; infrutescence terminal, rather short and 
quite rigid, green, 3 to 4 cm. long and about as broad, 
glabrous, branchlets and the 1 cm. long pedicels subtended 
by sharply acuminate  subpersistent bracts; young fruit 
mcre or less pointedly ellipsoid, 1.25 cm. long, very dark 
green, much smaller in the dry state, apparently 2-celled 
by a thin partition, the exocarp thick. 
Type specimen 12474, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 
1910. 
Scandent upon small trees in a rich densely forested flat 
at 750 feet. 
Fairly well matched by R. S. William's number 2161 
from Sax river, Zamboanga, February, 1905. Dedicated to 
Mr. Williams, of the New York botanical staff. 
Randia arborea Elm. n. sp. 
A very slender tree; stem 15 m. high, 3 dm. thick, terete, 
not perfectly straight; branches mostly toward the top, as- 
cending; twigs smooth, brown, more or less angled with 
ascending tips, the young portion brown puberulent; wood 
soft, sappy white throughout, odorless but distinctly sweet; 
bark smooth, finely blotched with gray and yellow. Leaves 
membranous, lucid deep green above, yellowish green be- 
neath with a very short pubescence especially along the 
nerves, the entire margins usually curved upon the lower 
side, opposite, more or less crowded toward the ends of the 
branchlets, the larger ones 2 cm. long, 8 cm. wide across 
the middle, abruptly acute at apex, base cuneate or obtuse; 
nerves pinnate, 13 to 15 on each side of the stout midvein, 
divaricate, with ascending tips which are articulately united, 
prominent, reticulations quite evident; stipules broad at the 
base, slenderly acuminate, 12 mm. long, pulverulent on 
the back; petiole 1.5 cm. long, at first short rusty brown 
pubescent, ultimately glabrate. Inflorescence corymbosely 
