JaNuUARY 11, 1911] New AND NorEWORTHY RUBIACEAE 1013 
handsome tree! Dedicated to Dr. Th. Valeton who recently 
published in the Bulletin du De’partement de L'Agricul- 
ture a review of the genus Timonius. 
At the time of drawing up the diagnosis I discovered 
that it was unsafe to refer here the flowering specimens under 
number 12292—for the leaves are smaller on the whole, 
more tapering at the base, with fewer and more glabrous 
nerves. That number can more properly be referred 
to T. arborea Elm., from which our new species here 
proposed differs entirely in the characters of the leaves 
and fruits. However, the foliage, young portion of the ful- 
vous brown twigs and leaf scars on the older portion, 
petioles, caducous stipules, nerves with the sparse pubescence 
is quite the same as number 12120 with staminate inflores- 
cence, and of which I attach the following description:— 
Peduncle solitary in the leaf axils, fulvous brown, 2 
cm. long, 2-branched at the top, the larger ones occasional- 
ly rebranched; flowers erect, scattered in 2 alternating rows 
along the upper side of the branchlets, the lower side sub- 
tended by an acuminate similarly pubescent bract; calyx 
densely fulvous, cup-shaped, 7.5 mm. long, 4 mm. thick, 
obscurely 4 to 5-denticulate; corolla tube 15 mm. long, 
gradually widening from the base, densely cinereous except at 
the apex where the hairs are yellowish; segments 5, strongly 
recurved, thick, one half as long as the tube, ligulate, obtuse 
at apex; stamens 5, alternating with the segments, inserted 3 
to 5 mm. below the throat; filaments glabrous, flattened, 1.5 
mm. long; anthers 5 mm. long, attached on the back be- 
low the middle, 1 mm. wide, the base acutely bilobed, the 
back bearded. 
Timonius gammillii Elm. n. sp. 
A shrub-like tree; stem 1 dm. thick, 5 m. high, branched 
from the middle, not strictly erect nor terete; branches nu- 
merous, the ultimate slender ones with ascendingly curved tips; 
wood dingy or yellowish white, bitterish, odorless, quite hard; 
old bark peeling in thin plates, smooth on the branches, 
grayish white. Leaves opposite, mostly toward the ends of 
the twigs, horizontal, coriaceous, nearly flat, a trifle paler 
