Janvary 11, 1911] New AND NOTEWORTHY RUBIACEAE 1038 
Chasalia curviflora Thw. Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 
Number 12199 Elmer from Sibuyan island is typical. Its 
range in the Philippine seems to be from southern Luzon 
southward toward Borneo. The field-note for the above 
number reads:—Erect shrub in well drained clay of a densely 
forested ridge at 1000 feet; stem nearly 5 mm. thick, 5 m. 
high, terete, more or less crooked, sparingly branched toward 
the top; wood whitish, quite rigid but not hard, odorless 
and tasteless; bark yellowish gray, smooth or becoming minutely 
checked; twigs erect, green. Leaves coriaceous, mostly hor- 
izontal, apex recurved, otherwise flat, very dark green and 
shining above, paler beneath. Inflorescence terminal, erect, 
rather rigid, odorless, pure white or only the peduncles and 
main pedicels tinged with red. Very showy and pretty as 
an undershrub of the forests! 
Chasalia obscurinervia Elm. n. sp. 
Lax shrub; stem 3 m. high, laxly branched; the twigs 
green, terete, smooth, with stipules at the leaf scars and 
at the point of branching. Leaves horizontal or descending, 
thinly coriaceous, much paler green beneath, the midvein 
beneath and toward the petiole reddish, glabrous, ovately ob- 
long, entire, apex rounded and with a short obtuse point, 
base alternate, the larger blades 15 cm. long, nearly 5 cm. 
wide above the middle, frequently much shorter and nar- 
rower; petiole glabrous, 1 cm. long; stipule also glabrous, 
broadly ovate, with a short acute point; veins 5 to 7 on 
each side of the prominent midvein, ascendingly arched, faint 
but rather plainly impressed, reticulations coarse and very 
obscure. Flowers not seen; infrutescence terminal, 3 to 5 em. 
long, short branched above the middle, about 3 cm. wide, 
erect, all the glabrous stalks red; branchlets and  pedicels 
subtended by short acute bracts; fruits apparently immature, 
globose, green, with purlish red stigmatic portions, 7.5 mm. 
in diameter, usually marked with 4 faint ridges or grooves, 
2-celled, 2-seeded; exocarp quite thick and horny, the inner 
side of the halves deeply concave; seed apparently immature, 
very flat, circular, concavo-convex, 6 mm. across. 
