NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 217 



ino^ the separation of this form from Ardisia humiUs : "Ardisia humilis Vahl is 

 a Ceylon coast shrub which is endemic there and does not extend to the Malay 

 Peninsula. The figures A-E on page 128 of Mez's monograph are CUmacandra 

 obovata= Ardisia littoralis Andr. which has septate anthers, which A. humilis has 

 not. The authors of the "Flora of British India" have mixed up A. humilis and 

 A. solanacea Roxb., which is quite a different plant, almost a tree and of inland 

 forests, and Moz has correctly separated them, b\it he has incorrectly put together 

 .4.. humilis.Yahl and A. littoralis Andr." 



Ardisia littoralis Andr. is apparently rare in the Philippines, but we have 

 several very closely allied forms, at least one of which is abundant and widely 

 distributed in the Archipelago. 



]Malay Peninsvila and Archipelago, southern China, and the Philippines. 



Ardisia boissieri A. DC. in DC. Prodr. 8 (1844) 129; Mez in Engl. Pflanzen- 

 reich 9 (1902) 129. 



This species is very common and widely distributed in the Philippines, extend- 

 ing from northern Luzon to southern ^lindanao, a tree of the hill forests at low 

 and medium altitudes ascending to at least 600 m in some localities;- it reaches 

 a height of 15 m in some regions, and is not a seacoast plant. It is very similar 

 in all superficial characters to A. littoralis Andr., but can usually be at once 

 distinguished by its anthers being prominently glandular on the back, and not 

 transversely septate. What I take to represent this species comprises about 80 

 specimens in this herbarium, from all parts of the Philippines, which have, for 

 most part, been identified as Ardisia humilis Vahl, many of them so named by 

 Doctor Mez. It is very probable that some of the extra-Philippine specimens 

 cited by Mez under Ardisia humilis, should be referred to A. boissieri, and it is 

 likewise very probable that this name will not prove to be the oldest one. 



Ardisia pirifolia Mez 1. c. 129. 



This species, the type of which I have examined in the Berlin Herbariiini, is 

 distinguishable from A. boissieri only by the most trivial characters; in all 

 respects except in having the sepals minutely emarginate, it is quite the same 

 as A. boissieri. The type was from Polillo, not from Luzon, and the species is 

 represented by Bur. Sci. 9292 Robinson, from the same island, Merrill 1101, from 

 Baler, Province of Tayabas, Luzon, and apparently also by Elmer 56Jf5 from the 

 Province of Union, Luzon, the latter so identified by Doctor Mez. The sepals are 

 not always glabrous, but are usually more or less ciliate on the margins; the 

 only character left for specific separation of this form from .4. boissieri is the 

 very trivial one of the emarginate (very slightly) sepals. 



Ardisia verrucosa Presl Rel. Haenk. 2 (1835) 65; Mez 1. c. 134. 



This species is also manifestly closely allied to, and perhaps not specifically 

 distinct from Ardisia boissieri A. DC. Mez distinguishes it especially by its 2- 

 flowered umbels, but Presl describes it as having from 2- to 5-flowered umbels, 

 and one of the original specimens, in the Prague Herbarium, which T have 

 examined, shows at least 5 flowers. Doctor Mez examined the specimen of the 

 original collection preserved in the Vienna Herbarium. 



Ardisia macgregorii sp. nov. § Tinus. 



Arbiiscula glabra, circiter 1 m alta; foliis lanceolatis, obtusis, coriaceis, 

 subtus minute dense puncticiilatis, nervis reticulisque densis, obscuris; 

 inflorepcentiis axillaribus, solitariis. simplieibTis, fructibns subumbellatim 

 dispositis. 



