NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 219 



obscurely acuminate, with few, scattered, comparatively large glands. 

 Anthers 2.5 mm long, apiculate, not glandular. Ovary ovoid, ferru- 

 ginous-puberulent; style about 5 mm long. Fruit globose, black-purple 

 when mature, somewhat fleshy, about 7 mm in diameter. 



]\IiNnoRO, ]\Iount Halcon, in forests, altitude about 1,800 m, Merrill 5615, 5732, 

 6I45 (type), November, 1906, For. Bur. .'f342 Merritt; Mount Irauan, For. Bur. 

 8728 Merritt, January, 1908, altitude about 1,300 ni ; Mount Sablayan, For. Bur. 

 11012 Merritt, March, 1908, altitude about 970 m; mountains back of Abra de' 

 Hog, For. Bur. 8793 Merritt, January, 1908, altitude 500 m. 



As noted above, this- species is closely allied to Ardisia grossedentaia Mez, 

 differing in its much shorter petioles. It bears much the same relationship to 

 that species as does A. curtipes Merr. to A. serrata (Cav.) A. DC. It is distin- 

 guished from H. serrata var. hrevipetiolata Merr. by its ferruginous tomentum and 

 differently shaped leaf-bases. 



Ardisia oblongifolia sp. nov. § Stylardisia. 



Arbor vel frutex erecta, ranmlis, foliis junioribus subtus, inflorescen- 

 tiisque minute brunnco-puberulis ; foliis oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, 

 chartaceis, acuminatis, petiolatis, alternis; paniculis terminalibus, quam 

 folia brevioribus, ramis divaricatis, paucis. 



An erect shrub or tree. Branches terete, light-gray or brownish, the 

 younger ones brown-puberulent. Leaves alternate, scattered, oblong to 

 oblong-lanceolate, 11 to 18 cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, chartaceous, entire, 

 dull or slightly shining when dry, the apex rather gradually and sharply 

 acuminate, the base acute, beneath, when young, somewhat ferruginous- 

 puberulent becoming glabrous, not manifestly glandular-punctate; nerves 

 up to 18 on each side of tile midrib, not very prominent, often obscure; 

 petioles 5 to 7 mm long. Panicles terminal, pyramidal, 10 cm long 

 or less, the branches few, alternate, divaricately spreading, the lower 

 ones 3 to 4 cm long, the rachis, branches and branchlets puberulent 

 with dark-brown hairs. Flowers subumbellately disposed, the umbels 

 peduncled and racemosely arranged on the primary panicle-branches, the 

 peduncles about 5 mm long, sometimes less, the pedicels slender, 2 to 3 

 mm long. Calyx about 3 mm in diameter, the five lobes ovate, obtuse, 

 about 1.5 mm long, glandular-punctate, the margins minutely puberulent. 

 Petals ovate, nearly free, acute, 3.5 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, not at all 

 glandular-punctate.- Anthers 3 mm long, not glandular. Ovary gla- 

 brous; style 3.5 to 5 mm long, often exserted before anthesis. 



Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Mrs. Clemens 779 (type), from between Malabang and 

 Camp Keithley, NoA'ember, 1906, and three sheets without number from Camp 

 Keithley. 



Most of the flowers do not have the styles exserted, but a few of them on 

 the type specimen have the styles decidedly exserted, hence the species is~ placed 

 ill the § Stylardisia. In might, with almost equal propriety, be placed in the 

 § Akosmos. 



