1116 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE Botany [Vor. III, Arr. 60 
enatis). longitudinaliter percursa; inferne canaliculata, basi 
aliquantum sensim dilatata et semiamplectentia, in ima basi 
dorso, in sieco, rufo, laevi et vernicoso; aurieulis angustissi- 
mis, membranaceis, coloratis (?), 7 cent. longis, apice acutis; 
laminae marginibus minute et crebrerrime serratis, dentibus 
adpressis; costa media subtus prominenti e medio usque ad 
apicem erebrerrime spinuloso-serrata. Inflorescentia terminalis, 
terna vel quina, pedicellis fructiferis 4-4.5 cent. longis, 4-5 mill. 
crassis, apice et secus duas costulas furfuraceo-seabridis, cae- 
terum levibus; parte baccifera cylindracea, 9-10 cent. longa, 
14-17 mill. crassa, subteres, luteo-virescens (Elmer). Baccae 
confertae, numerosissimae, acute pentagonae; parte apicali li- 
bera brevissima, 2 mill. longa, crasse-coriacea, rotundato-py- 
ramidata, pentagona, vertice latiusculo, plano, annulato. Stig- 
mata 5 vel 4, interdum 6. Semina parva, rufa, curvula; 
raphe et strophiolo inconspicuis. 
Habitat:—In good soil of forests on ridges or along 
streams at 300-600 m. (1000-2000 feet). Magallanes (Mt. Gi- 
ting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
Elmer Philip. pl. n. 12257. (Herb. Martelli). 
A lofty tree climber; stem solitary or few, loosely twin- 
ing about the tree trunks, occasionally branched, 1 inch thick, 
terete, ringed, beset with scattered conical spines; wood po- 
rous, quite rigid, sappy white, odorless, sweet, covered with 
yellowish gray bark; branches rather numerous toward the 
top or at the top, forming more a less tangled masses; branch- 
lets slender, curved, drooping with suberect tips; leaves co- 
pious, rigidly coriaceous, dull green on the upper caniculate 
surface, paler or subglaucous green beneath, margins and the 
underside of the midrib above the middle finely serrate, not 
constricted toward the ascending base, the younger terminal 
leaves ascending, the older ones drooping, 2 to 3 feet long, 
0.5 to 0.75 inch wide; infrutescence erect, upon a few inches long 
terete 0.75 inch thick ringed main stalk; secondary stalk yel- 
lowish green, 2 inches long; spikes 0.75 inch thick, subterete, 
3 to 5, ascending, slightly outwardly curved, pale or yellow- 
ish green except the brown stigmas. (Elmer ms.) 
