330 MERRILL. 



submarginal vein; petioles 1.3 to 3 mm long. Flowers greenish- 

 white, axillary, solitary, rarely 2 in an axil, the pedicels about 2 

 mm long, the base with two or three, ovate, 0.5 mm long bracts, 

 a similar bracteole subtending the flower. Calyx-lobes ovate, 

 acute, 1 mm long. Corolla broadly campanulate, about 3 mm 

 long, 4 mm in diameter, the throat hairy, the lobes reflexed, ovate, 

 obtuse, about 2 mm long. Anthers nearly 1 mm long. Ovary 

 subglobose, 1 mm in diameter; style stout, 2 mm long; stigma 

 globose. Fruit ovoid-elliptic, about 8 mm long, red when mature. 

 Seeds numerous, oblong-ellipsoid, brown, about 8 mm long. 



Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Mount Santo Tomas, Williams 1127 (type), 

 1068, 923, June and September, 1904; San Fernando Trail, Phil. PI. 

 725 Merrill, May, 1911. 



A species allied to Geniostonia cuiningianum Benth., differing in its 

 relatively much narrower leaves which are pale, not at all blackish when 

 dry, its more prominent nerves which anastomose to form distinct sub- 

 marginal veins, and in its solitary, short-pedicelled flowers. 



APOCYNACEAE. 



ALYXIA Banks. 



ALYXIA BLANCOI sp. nov. 



Brahejum liicidum Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 40, non Alyxia lucida 

 Wall. 



Frutex scandens, glaber, ramis teretibus, ramulis 4-angulatis; 

 foliis lanceolatis vel oblanceolatis, coriaceis, nitidis, 3.5 ad 5 cm 

 longis, verticillatis, obtusis, breviter petiolatis ; f ructibus ovoideis 

 vel subglobosis, 1 cm longis, crasse apiculatis. 



A scandent glabrous shrub, aromatic in drying. Branches 

 slender, terete, grayish or brownish, the branchlets distinctly 

 4-angled, the internodes on the branchlets 5 to 12 mm long. 

 Leaves whorled, 3, rarely 4 at each node, lanceolate or obanceo- 

 late, coriaceous, shining, 3.5 to 5 cm long, 6 to 10 mm wide, the 

 margins recurved, base acute, apex obtuse or subacute; lateral 

 nerves very obscure; petioles 1.5 to 2.5 mm long. Flowers 

 unknown. Fruit ovoid or subglobose, not monilifoiTn, about 

 1 cm long, with a thick apiculate point, yellow when fresh. 



Cebu, in thickets on dry hills back of the City of Cebu, Bur. Sci. 11118 

 Ramos, March, 1912. 



F. Villar reduced Blanco's species to Alyxis stcllata R. & S., which was 

 undoubtedly an error. Vidal referred Alyxia stellata F.-Vill. to his A. mon- 

 ilifera, but correctly excluded the reference to Blanco. In my paper on 

 the determination of Blanco's species " I followed F.-Villar in his reduction 



"Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 27 (1905) 58. 



