212 MERRILL. 



glabrous. Flowers axillary, solitar}-, iew, their pedicels setose, up to 7 

 mm in length, the corolla unknown, basal bract minute, less than 1 mm 

 long, the apex of the pedicel with two orbicular-ovate bracteoles about 1.5 

 mm in diameter. Calyx glabrous except the slightly ciliate margins of the 

 lobes, accrescent, the lobes just after anthesis ovate, acuminate, about 2 

 mm long; style persistent, 2 mm long. 



Negbos, Canlaon Volcano, on mossy trunks in forests at an altitude of about 

 1,500 m, Merrill 6995, April, 1910. 



A species well characterized by its comparatively small leaves, the lateral 

 nerves obsolete except sometimes the very faint subbasal pair. 



MYRSINACE^. 



ARDISIA Sw. 



Ardisia biflora sp. nov. § Akosnws. 



Arbuscula glabra usque ad 3 m alta; foliis petiolatis, oblongis vel 

 lanceolato-oblongis, integris, chartaceis, valde acuminatis, subtus valde 

 glanduloso-punctatis, in sicco nitidis, pallidis; inflorescentiis axillaribus, 

 solitariis, tenuibus, bifloris, quam folia multo brevioribiis; sepalis petalis- 

 quc valde glanduloso-punctatis. 



A sh]-ub 1 to 3 m high, glabrous; branches and branchlets slender, 

 terete, gray or brownish. Leaves alternate, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 

 chartaceous, pale and shining when dry, entire, 4 to 8 cm long, 1 to 2.5 

 cm wide, the apex strongly acuminate, the base cuneate, tlie lower surface 

 very strongly and densely glandular-punctate; nerves about 10 on each 

 side of the midrib, not prominent, slender, anastomosing, the secondary 

 ones nearly as prominent; petioles slender, about 5 mm long. Inflores- 

 cence axillary, solitary, slender, the peduncle 6 to 10 mm long, bearing 

 at its apex two flowers, their pedicels 6 to 8 mm in length. Flowers 

 greenish-white, tinged with pink, 5-merous, hennaphrodite. Sepals 

 reniform-ovate, less than 1 mm long, united for the lower third, strongly 

 glandular-punctate, scarcely ovei'lapping, spreading, rounded, the margins 

 minutely ciliate. Petals elliptic-ovate, acute, 3.5 to 4 mm long, prom- 

 inently glandular-punctate throughout, the tube about 0.5 mm long. 

 Anthers 2 mm long, oblong-ovoid, minutely apiculate, glandnlai- on the 

 back, the filaments very short. Ovaiy ovoid, apparently with few (one?) 

 ovules; style 2 mm long. Fruit globose, glandular, about 5 mm in 

 diameter. 



Luzon, Province of Zambales, Mount Tapulao, in exposed ridge-forests, altitude 

 about 1,400 m, Bur. Sci. 5073 Ramos (type). For. Bur. 8110 Cuna/n d Merritt, 

 December, 1907. 



A sjKJcies apparently belonging in tlie section Akosmufi. strongly char:icterized 

 by its slender, axillary, 2-flovvered inflorescences; the apparently 1-ovuled ovary 

 is suggestive of Difscocalyx, but in all other characters the species is unmistakably 

 an A rdisia. 



