1044 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
ments densely hairy; lobes 4 mm. long, strongly recurved, 
oblong, obtuse at apex, the tips on the upper side usually 
with few hairs and are rather roughened, 1.5 mm. wide, 4 
in number; stamens 4, inserted upon the throat, erect and 
barely exerted; filaments glabrous, flattened, nearly 2 mm. 
long, alternating with the corolla segments; anthers as long, 
linear but widest at the base, straight, attached on the back 
below the middle, ends rounded; ovary 2-celled; style and 
fruits not known. 
Type specimen 12563, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
A medium-sized tree climber in red compact soil of a 
forested ridge at 1250 feet. Rare! The local Visayan call 
it ‘‘Tagakong.’’ 
Our flowers are entirely too large for T. motleyi Hook. 
from Borneo. It also differs primarily from Dr. Robinson's 
Polilo specimen in having smaller flowers. 
DAMNACANTHUS Gaertn. 
Damnacanthus indicus Gaertn. Fruct. III, t. 182; 18, 
1805. Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. III; 3238, 1909. 
Only known from mount Banahao in the Philippines. 
PRISMATOMERIS Thw. 
Prismatomeris tetrandra (Roxb.) K. Sch. in Naturlichen 
Pflanzenfamielien. Coffea tetrandra Roxb. in Fl. Brit. Ind. 
I; 538, 1832. Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. V; 243, 1910. 
Several specimens of this have recently been collected 
in the province of Cagayan, Luzon. 
MORINDA Linn. 
Morinda philippinensis Elm. n. sp. 
Scandent; stem nearly 2 cm. thick, terete, bendable,. nu- 
merously branched toward the top; wood soft, porous, odorless, dis- 
