JANUARY 11, 1911] New AND NorEWORTHY RUBIACEAE 1035 
soft and bladdery, without odor, containing 5 brown stony 
seeds. In fertile well drained soil of forests at 1000 feet. 
Lasianthus obliquinervis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 
Suppl. I; 136, 1906. 
Whitford 247 from mount Mariveles, May, 1905, is first 
cited of a number of them from the same locality. _ Very 
common in that locality, otherwise little known. 
Lasianthus tashiroi Mats. in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XV; 87. 
Rather widely distributed in our archipelago. The field: 
note to my Todaya plant is:—Lax undershrub; stem erect, 
terete, 1.25 cm. thick, dark green except for the brown 
exerescences; branches scattered, divaricate mostly toward the 
top, unbranched; wood also greenish and with. a green pith. 
Leaves horizontal, flat, with recurved tips, chartaceous, 
much lighter and paler green beneath. Flowers ascending; 
calyx purplish white, the corolla snow white; fruits ellipsoid, 
7.5 mm. long, azure blue, fetid. In or on a forested ridge 
at 6000 feet on mount Calelan. The Bagobo name is ''Pa- 
mog-tiang.’’ 
LITOSANTHES Bim. 
Litosanthes biflora Bim. Cat. Gew. Buitenzorg 21, 1823. 
Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. III; 326, 1909. 
Very little collected, and extends from Mindoro across to 
the province of Sorsogon, Luzon. Recently the writer gathered 
it in the Cuernos mountains of south Negros and was distrib- 
uted under number 9586. 
SAPROSMA Bim. 
Saprosma philippinense Elm. n. sp. 
Erect shrub; stem 3 m. high, widely branched from 
below the middle, branches yellowish gray; wood pale white, 
easily breaking; bark thin, slightly checked, yellowish brown. 
