JANUARY 11, 1911] New AND NOTEWORTHY RUBIACEAE. 1015 
PAVETTA Linn. 
Pavetta dolichostyla Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. potu 
I; 239, 1906. 
Type specimen is Forestry Bureau num ber 3714 from 
Mindoro, collected by Mr. Merritt in 1906. Very near to P. 
barnesit Elm. Vd i: 
Pavetta meyeri Elm. n. comb. Webera meyert (Elm.) Merr. 
in Philip. Journ. Sci. Suppl. I; 133, 1906. Irora meyeri Elm. 
Leaf. Philip. Bot. I; 68, 1906. 
Rare! Webera is also a moss genus. 
Pavetta eucrantha Elm. n. sp. 
Low shrub; stem suberect, more or less nodulose, 2.5 cm. 
thick, 1 to 1.5 m. high; branches from below the middle, quite 
rigid, spreading, only sparingly rebranched, the ultimate ones 
suberect; wood soft, sappy white, odorless, sweetish, with a 
large white pith; bark dull green. Leaves leathery, ascending 
or horizontal, flat, the abruptly acuminate apex. recurvec, 
much. paler green beneath which has a rongh feel, smooth 
on the upper side, drying. nearly black, base short and abrupt- 
ly acuminate, entire, the larger ones over 2 dm. long, nearly 1 
dm. wide across the middle, oblong to elliptic, the shorter 
obovately so, opposite, ‘usually 2 or 3 pairs at the end of 
the branchlets, glabrous or only the nerves pubescent beneath; 
midvein quite proniinent, the lateral ones 5 to 8 on each 
side, all conspicuous beneath, oblique, very finely dirty brown 
pubescent, their ends arched and united, with coarse but faint 
-retieulations; petiole 1 to 2 cm. long, scurfy puberulent 
beneath, ultimately glabrate; stipule rim-like, subtruncate, 4 
mm. deep. Inflorescence erect, terminal, dark green, appress- 
ed hairy, subtended by a stipule-like involucral bract, less 
than 3 em. long, branched from near the base, cymosely 
branched, the short branchlets subtended by acuminate bracts; 
calyx subsessile, subtended by sharply pointed bracteoles, 4mm. 
long, the upper one half divided into 5 sharply acuminate seg- 
ments; corolla creamy white, sparsely pubescent on the outside, 
