'214 MERRILL, 



times nearly obsolete ; petioles 5 mm long or less. Hacemes in the upper 

 axils, solitary, stout, 5 to 10 cm long, only the upper third flower-bearing, 

 this portion of the rachis densely covered with scars and pedicels, the 

 latter 1 to 2 cm long. Flowers pink or purplish, 5-merous, comparatively 

 large. Calyx about 8 mm in diameter, the lobes united for the lower 

 one-third or one-half, about 3 mm wide, elliptic-ovate or ovate, apex 

 slightly emarginate, all parts densely glandular, the margins minutely 

 ciliate. Corolla-tube about 2 mm long, the lobes ovate or broadly 

 oblong-ovate, about 13 mm long, 7 mm wide, somewhat acuminate, the 

 acumen obtuse, glandular-punctate. Anthers about 6.5 mm long, slightly 

 apiculatc-acuminate, with few large glands on the back, the cells not 

 septate or rugose, the filaments about 2 mm long. Ovai-y ovoid; style 

 about 1 cm long, obscurely glandular. Fniit globose or depressed- 

 globose, about 8 mm in diameter, violet when mature, said to be edible. 



Batanes Islands, Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, Bur. *S'ci. 3580 Fenix 

 (type), Bur. Sci. 321 Jf, 3216 M earns. Babuyanes Islands, Fuga, Bttr. Sci. 32.'f5 

 Mearns. 



This species is manifestly allied to Ardisia humilis Vahl, A. boissieri A. DC, 

 and A. littoralis Andr., but is at once distinguishable from all by its racemosely 

 disposed flowers, these being crowded along the upper one-third of the racemes 

 and not umbellatcly arranged at the ends of the branches. Other distinguisliing 

 characters are its comparatively large flowers and its emarginate sepals. The 

 material on which the above species is based, was previously referred by me to 

 Ardisia humilis Vahl.^ Local name pain. 



Ardisia curranii sp, nov. § Tinopsis. 



Arbor glabra, circiter 15 m alta; foliis pseudoverticillatis, coriaceis, 

 oblongis vel late oblongo-lanceolatis, breviter acuminatis, nervis num- 

 crosis, patulis, vix distinctis; paniculis terminalibus, quam folia multo 

 longioribus; sepalis pubescentibus, punctatis, marginc eiliatis; ovario 

 pnberulo. 



A glabrous tree about 15 m high. Bj'anches terete, striate, light-gray, 

 rather stout. Leaves alternate, somewhat pseudo-verticillately crowded 

 at the apices of the branchlets, oblong to broadly oblong-lanceolate, 

 coriaceous, l)i()\\ii wlien dry, entire, 15 to 20 cm long, 5 to 7 cm wide, 

 dull or slightly shining, the apex shortly and In'oadly acuminata, the 

 base somewhat decurrent-acuminate, scarcely glandnlar-])unetal('. or very 

 minutely and obscurely so; nerves 25 to 30 on each side of the midrib, 

 obscure, spreading, scarcely anastomosing, the reticuhitions obsolete; 

 petioles 2.5 to 3 cm long. Panicles terminal, about 30 cm long, somewhat 

 narroAvly pyramidal. Ibc lowci' branches 15 cm in lengtli, the flowers 

 racemosely disposed on Ibc ullimate branchlets, their pedicels 1 to 2 cm 

 long. Calyx about 4.5 iiim in diameter, feri'uginous-jmbescent outside, 



'■"1' his Journal 3 (lOOS) liotaini 42;"). 



