2578 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [VoL. VII, Arr. 114 
subtended by a minute bract or more, 2 mm long, subcyl- 
indric except the toothed crown, short yellowish pubescent; 
corolla united around the base, glabrous on the upper side, 
strigose on the lower side especially toward the base, the 
individual segments 2.5 mm long by 1.5 mm wide, elliptic 
in shape, occasionally unequal in size, more or less veiny; 
stamens 5 or as many as there are corolla segments, in- 
serted upon their bases and alternating with them; fila- 
ments 1.5 mm long, glabrous, subterete; anther broadly 
elliptic, with truncately rounded ends or narrowly notched 
at the base, 0.5 to 0.75 mm long, dorsifixed; the exerted 
ovary portion cone-like and subglaucous, terminated by a large 
subcapitate stigma. 
- Type specimen number 10791, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
Collected on wooded ridges along the north side of the 
Baruring river at 2500 feet altitude.  ''Bangas-bangas" in 
Bagobo. 
Distributed as Viburnum luzonicum Rolfe. 
Viburnum valerianicum Elm. n. sp. 
. A spreading or suberect shrub; stem 5 em thick, 3 m 
high, branched from the middle; branches and twigs curved 
and freely rebranched, the latter densely lenticelled, tips of 
the young green portion glabrons. Leaves opposite, copious to- 
ward the terminal portion of the twigs, ascending or hori- 
zontal, coriaceous, lucid on the upper side, much lighter, 
green on the nether side, drying unequally dull brown, 
broadly obtuse at the base, the acuminate apex recurved, 
edges entire or distantly apiculate, glabrous, ovately oblong 
or the smallest ones broadly lanceolate, the average blades 
8 em long by 2.5 cm wide below the middle; petiole gla- 
brous, 1.5 cm long, caniculate along the upper side, frequent- 
ly recurved; midvein edged beneath, caniculate above, with 
a prominent pair of basal lateral nerves arising 5 mm from 
the base of the blade, with 1 or 2 minor lateral pairs aris- 
ing from above the middle, cross bars or reticulations 
none or very obscure, woolly glands in the axils of the 
lateral nerves on the lower side; stipule none. Inflorescence 
