JANUARY 11, 1911] New AND Norewortay RUBIACEAE ` 1043 
island. Part of these I previously referred under P. foetida 
Linn. 
Paederia verticillata Bim. l. c. 
Mrs. Clemens collected several sheets of this in the lake 
Lanao region. The writer also collected it in the vicinity of 
mounts Banahao and Apo. The deep blood red flowers are 
very pretty! 
TETRALOPHA Hook. 
Tetralopha philippinensis Eim. n. sp. 
Scandent, shrubby; stem 2.5 cm. thick, flexible, terete, 
crooked; branches crooked, interlaced and forming more or 
less tangled masses 10 m. or more from the ground, the 
free ends hanging, rather slender, green; wood soft, porous, 
dirty white; bark dull brown, mottled and smooth on the 
branches, on the stem very finely checked. Leaves coria- 
ceous, glabrous, mostly horizontal, folded upon the velvety 
deep green upper surface, very much paler green beneath, 
recurved toward the acute or subacuminate apex, the entire 
margins slightly involute in the dry state, turning simi- 
larly black on both side while drying, opposite, scattered 
along the branchlets, becoming easily detached, base obtuse 
to acute, the larger blades 15 cm. long, 5 em. wide just 
below the middle, mostly smaller, oblong lanceolate or el- 
liptish; petiole also glabrous, usually twisted at the base, 
averaging 1 cm. long, stipule straw brown, thick, subper- 
sistent, 2 mm. wide, the apex with a blunt tooth; nerves 
5 to 7 on each side of the midvein, ascending, tips slightly 
arched and united, reticulations coarse, quite evident be- 
neath, all glabrous. Flowers upon very short axillary cymes 
3 to 5 mm. in length; calyx glabrous, 2.5 em. long, 
equally as wide across the truncate top, gradually tapering 
from base to the rim; corolla deciduous, whitish, 8 mm. 
long, glabrous on the outside and the 2 mm. basal interior 
portion of the tube, the throat and the upper portion of 
the inner side of the tube with the upper side of the seg- 
