JANUARY 11, 1911] New AND NorEWonTHY RUBIACEAE 1037 
the Philippines. It was collected in fertile soil of dense moist 
forests at 3500 feet south of the Baruring river at Todaya and 
was distributed under 10737:—Lax undershrub, 2 m. high; stem 
and branches greenish, quite rigid, the latter numerous and 
widely spreading horizontally. Leaves similarly spreading, lucid 
bright green above, much paler beneath, flat. Flowers axil- 
lary, ascending, 1 to 3-clustered, greenish white except the 
green calyx tips; the subtending bracts foliaceous. Rare and 
its Bagobo name is ''Poagan."' 
MYRMEPHYTUM Becc. 
Myrmephytum beccarii Elm. n. sp. 
Myrmecophyte; tuber 3 to 5 dm. across, irregularly and 
shallowly lobed, grayish, more or less roughened, without 
spines, attached to its support by a number of flexible and 
twining roots from near the base, the inside turnip white 
and about as hard, honey-eombed and inhabited by small 
black ants, the irregular lobes giving rise to few to several 
stems; stem 1 em. thick at least, flexible, occasionally branched, 
frequently provided with soft spicules, grayish brown, smooth 
when fresh, wrinkled when dry. Leaves curved toward the 
ends of the stems and branches, thickly coriaceous, drying 
brown or nearly black, glabrous, obovately oblong or the smaller 
ones spatulate, the larger blades 1 dm. long, 4 cm. wide, 
margins entire, apex obtuse or rounded, base cuneate and 
decurrent along the 1 to 3 cm. long petiole; stipules brown, 
narrowly rim-like; nerves divaricate, faint, 7 to 9 on each 
side of the rather stout midvein, reticulations obscure. In- 
florescence in sessile axillary clusters; outer involucral bracts 
1 cm. long, thick, glabrous, grayish, irregularly divided nearly 
to the base into acute to acuminate segments; the inner smaller 
and more membranous bracts densely dark brown pubescent 
on the back; calyx 6 mm. long, the basal portion stipitate 
and densely covered with reddish brown setose hairs which 
soon fall off, 4 mm. wide across the top; rim 1 mm. wide, trun- 
cate, whitish, with reddish glandular dots, membranous; corolla 
at least 12 mm. long, the basal portion whitish, otherwise azure 
blue, glabrous except the woolly region on the inside of the 
