January 11, 1911] New AND NOTEWORTHY RUBIACEAE 1011 
Timonius epiphyticus Elm, n. sp. 
Epiphytic; stem terete, several, 15 mm. thick, smooth and 
grayish; branchlets also slender, curved, 1 to 2 m. long, 
forming a loose hanging interlaced mass; wood soft and green- 
ish, quite odorless. Leaves scattered along the branchlets, 
opposite, dark green above, much paler beneath, the sides 
shallowly convex on the upper side, tips slightly descend- 
ing, otherwise flat, lucid on both sides, olivaceous in the 
dry state, the average blades 7.5 em. long, 12 mm. wide 
toward the base, lanceolate, slenderly acuminate or subcau- 
date at the apex, base mostly obtuse, in the largest leaves 
rounded and in the smaller ones acute, rigidly coriaceous, 
the upper surface in the dry state sprinkled with minute 
whitish dots and covered with scattering white hairs, mar- 
gins entire and involute, the lower surface with brown hairs 
especially along the nerves; midvein brown, very prominent 
beneath, sunken on the upper surface, olivaceous pubescent, 
the 3 to 5 lateral pairs faint, ascendingly curved; petioles 
3 mm. long, densely covered with olive colored hairs as are 
also the young portion of the twigs; stipule nearly 15 mm. 
long, slenderly acuminate, brown, submembranous, deciduous, 
subtended at the base by tuftlets of yellowish brown per- 
sistent hairs, otherwise glabrous. Flowers solitary, upon slen- 
der olivaceous pubescent 1 to 2 em. long usually recurved 
axillary pedicels; subtending bracts 2, acuminate, similarly 
pubescent along the median line, persistent; calyx ovoidly 
globose at the base, 4 mm. long, the apical 1.5 mm. nar- 
rowed into a 5-apicalate rim, more or less pubescent; the 
green corolla early falling, straight, 1 or more cm. long, pale 
creamy white, finely pubescent except at the subglabrous 
base, 1 mm. thick; segments valvate in the bud, 4, recurved, 
thickened at the tips; stamens 4, inserted upon the corolla 
tube near the base; filaments 0.5 mm. long, glabrous; an- 
thers linear, 2 mm. long, attached dorsally below the mid- 
dle; style fleshy, as long as the corolla, pilose, divided into 
2 flattened stigmatic arms; ovary ovoid, 10 to 15-celled, 
glabrous, with numerous elongated purplish brown glands be- 
tween it and the adnate calyx; ovules elongated and flattened, - 
pendulous, nearly as many as there are cells; fruits nearly 
