324 MERRILL. 



A shrub or small tree, the branches brown, smooth, somewhat 

 shining, the branchlets distinctly ferruginous-furfuraceous, 

 slender. Leaves oblong-elliptic to broadly oblong-oblanceolate, 

 chartaceous, 10 to 16 cm long, 3 to 4.5 cm wide, subequally 

 narrowed at both ends, the base acute or decurrent-acuminate, 

 the apex sharply acuminate, the margins subentire or obscurely 

 serrate-crenate, the upper surface slightly shining, the lower of 

 about the same color, with very numerous, dark-brown glands; 

 nerves slender, 25 to 30 on each side of the midrib; petioles 

 about 1 cm long. Inflorescence terminal or subterminal, much 

 shorter than the leaves, usually leaf -opposed with the uppermost 

 leaf on the branchlet, more or less glandular-furfuraceous with 

 brown glands, the branches few, the flowers umbellately 

 arranged on the ultimate branchlets, about 6 in an umbel, the 

 pedicels glandular, 5 to 7 mm long. Flowers about 8 mm in 

 diameter. Calyx about 3.5 mm in diameter, the lobes spreading, 

 triangular-ovate, glandular, acute, about 1 mm long. Corolla- 

 lobes ovate, imbricate, acuminate, about 3.5 mm long, gland- 

 ular-punctate. Anthers narrowly ovoid, 2 mm long, sharply 

 acuminate, somewhat glandular in the median part of the back, 

 subsessile. Ovary ovoid, glandular, style 4 mm long. Fruit 

 globose, apparently fleshy when fresh, black when dry, about 

 7 mm in diameter. 



Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Abulug River, For. Bur. 19620 Curran, 

 January, 1912. 



A species of the section Acrardisia, manifestly allied to Ardisia scabrida 

 Mez, but differing from that species in very many characters. 



ARDISIA RAM OS II sp. nov. § Crispardisia. 



Frutex circiter 1 m altus, glaber; foliis anguste oblong-ellip- 

 ticis, membranaceis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, acute 

 acuminatis, subtus pallidioribus, minute vel haud puncticulatis, 

 subintegris vel obscurissime undulatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, 

 nervis utrinque 15 ad 20; floribus ignotis; fructibus globosis, 

 valde glandulosis, glabris, sepalis oblongis, obtusis, glandulosis, 

 vix ciliatis, circiter 2.5 mm longis. 



A shrub about 1 m high, quite glabrous, the branches pale- 

 brownish. Leaves narrowly elliptic-oblong, membranaceous, 15 

 to 20 cm long, 4 to 7 cm wide, subequally narrowed at both 

 ends, the base acute or cuneate, the apex slenderly and sharply 

 acuminate, the margin subentire or very obscurely undulate, with 

 distant glands, when dry slightly shining or dull, the lower 

 surface a little paler than the upper, beneath eglandular or with 

 small, scattered glands which are not more numerous toward 



