JANUARY ll, 1911] Ngw AND NorEWORTHY RUBIACEAE 1019 
long, 2 to 8 dm. long, 5 to 6 cm. wide, apex gradually 
coming to an acute point, base rounded with shallow auric- 
ulate lobes, glabrous and smooth on both sides; stipules 
also glabrous, rigid, brown, forming a cupular rim the back 
of which prominently extends into a setaceous point 1 cm. 
long; midvein very prominent beneath, the lateral ones ir- 
regularly scattered, nearly at right angles to the midvein, 
faint and obscure, tips faintly connected, thereby forming 
flat arches 3 to 5 mm. from the margin, 13 to 16 on each 
side, reticulations coarse and only evident toward the arches. 
Inflorescence terminal; peduncles solitary or 2 to 3, arising 
from a short bracteate terminal suberect branchlet, pendu- 
lously recurved, glabrous, slender, about as long as the 
foliage, deep red as are also the secondary stalks; branches 
broadly paniculate, 7 to 10 cm. long, fully as wide across 
the base, all glabrous; bracts subpersistent, sharply acumi- 
nate, 2 mm. long; pedicels strict, 1 cm. long; terminal 
flower sessile, the 2 lateral ones pedicellate, subtended by 
a pair of sharply pointed bracteoles; calyx deep red, also 
the pedicels and subtending bracts, turbinate, glabrous, quite 
rigid, 3.5 mm. long including the 4 apiculate teeth; corolla 
glabrous, 2 em. long, with a 12.5 mm. long tube, bright 
red toward the base, otherwise white, fleshy, also rather 
rigid; segments 7 mm. long, 4 mm. wide across the middle, 
elliptic, obtuse or acute at apex, 4, fleshy, deeply concave 
on the upper side, the tube sparsely strigose on the inner 
surface; stamens inserted upon tne throat; filaments 4, thick, 
succulent, 1 mm. long, compressed, persistent; anther linearly 
oblong, 4.5 mm. long, acute at apex, bilobed, attached at 
the base above the lobes; style very slender, little exceeding 
the corolla, glabrous, terminated by 2 rather thick flattened 
stigmatic arms. 
Type specimen 12483, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 
1910. 
This handsome species was discovered in moist humus 
covered soil of densely wooded flats along woodland streams 
from 750 to 1000 feet elevation. 
