338 MERRILL. 



red, oblong, when young gray-puberulent, soon becoming quite 

 glabrous, 2 to 3.5 cm long, 1.2 to 1.5 cm wide, curved, slightly 

 keeled down the back, rather distinctly winged or broadly keeled 

 down the suture, with two intermediate keels along the sides. 

 Seeds about 15, irregularly triangular-ovoid, not or but very 

 slightly sulcate. 



Mindanao, Butuan Subprovince, Cabadbaran, Weber, April, 1911 (type), 

 in clearings, altitude about 15 m. Piper 287, 345, April, 1911. 



A species strongly characterized by its sessile leaves which are broad 

 and cordate at the base. 



VERBENACEAE. 



CALLICARPA L. 

 CALLICARPA ELEGANS Hayek in Just's Bot. Jahresb. 33 (1905) 8. 



This species was based on Cuming 1^60, a specimen of which is in 

 the herbarium of the Bureau of Science; according to Cuming's own list 

 of localities, the above number was collected in the Province of Camarines 

 Sur, Luzon. The species appears to be quite widely distributed in the 

 northern Philippines, and is also represented by the following specimens: 



Luzon, Province of Abra, Mount Paraga, Bur. Sci. 705jf Ramos, Feb- 

 ruary, 1909: Province of Ilocos Norte, Mount Piao, For. Bur. 13994. Merritt 



6 Darling: Province of Zambales, Subic, Hallier, January, 1904; Cande- 

 laria. Bur. Sci. 4815 Ramos, December, 1907; Cabiluagan, For. Bur. 7018 

 Curran, May, 1907: Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Williams 340, De- 

 cember, 1903. MiNDORO, south-west of Lake Naujan, For. Bur. 6725 Mer- 

 ritt, April, 1907. 



Endemic. 



CALLICARPA CAULIFLORA sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, ramulis quadrangularibus stellato-plumoso- 

 pilosis glandulosisque ; f oliis amplis, chartaceis, oblongo-ellipticis, 

 acuminatis, usque ad 35 cm longis, leviter irregulariter denticu- 

 latis vel subintegris, supra glabris, subtus glandulosis, ad costa 

 nervosque plus minusve stellato-pilosis ; inflorescentiis fascicu- 

 latis, caulifloris; floribus 4-meris, pedicellatis ; corolla circiter 



7 mm longa. 



A small tree, the branchlets quadrangular, rather stout, rather 

 densely covered with brownish plumose-stellate hairs and also 

 yellow-glandular. Leaves chartaceous, oblong-elliptic, 30 to 35 

 cm long, 9 to 13 cm wide, the apex slenderly and sharply acu- 

 minate, the base gradually narrowed, margins distantly and 

 irregularly denticulate or subentire, the upper surface glabrous, 

 the lower one somewhat paler, yellow-glandular, sparingly 

 stellate-pilose on the midrib, nerves, and reticulations, the hairs 

 often plumose; primary nerves about 14 on each side of the 

 midrib, prominent beneath, anastomosing, the reticulations prom- 



