1034 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
Type specimen 11200, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, July, 1909. 
Discovered in dry woods or forests of fertile soil along the 
Sibulan river and Baracatan creek from 1250 to 2500 feet. 
The Bagobos call it “‘Cayut-dimokod.”’ 
Apparently somewhat related to the Javan and Sumatran 
C. expansa (Blm.) Mig. 
LASIANTHUS Jack. 
Lasianthus cyanocarpus Jack. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV; 
195, 1823. Villar Nov. App. 112, 1880. Merr. in Philip. 
Journ. Sci. V; 240, 1910. 
; Lasianthus clementis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. III; 
164, 1908. 
Of this species there are several specimens in the her- 
barium, Bureau of Science, collected by Mrs. Clemens in the 
Lake Lanao region of central Mindanao. 
Lasianthus everettii Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. III; 
265, 1908. 
Type is based on Forestry Bureau number 5591, collected 
by H. D. Everett on Negros Occidental in 1906. My field-note 
to this from Sibuyan island is:—A lax undershrub; stem terete, 
averaging at least 1 cm. thick and nearly 2 m. high; wood 
sappy white, with a large greenish pith, breaking with a snap, 
covered with smooth green bark; branches mostly toward the top, 
divaricate, unbranched, green; the soft membranous leaves 
spreading, with tips recurved, shining, pleasing green above, 
paler beneath; bracts of the axillary inflorescence foliaceous and 
similar in texture; odorless flowers the axils, the calyx 
greenish; corolla white, soft, tubular below the middle, in- 
flated above, 5-segmented; the 5 stamens creamy white, 
inserted sessilely upon the throat of the inflated or rather 
the tubular portion; style similar in color; stigma dull 
brown; fruits light blue, sessile, 1.25 cm. long, nearly as 
wide across the truncate apex, tapering from base to apex, 
