340 MERRILL. 



Stamens exserted; anthers 0.6 mm long. Fruit (immature), 

 globose, small, containing 4 pyrenes. 



Luzon, Province of Cap:ayan, Cuming 1330 (type) : Province of Nueva 

 Vizcaya, Mount Umugum, Bur. Sci. 8268 Ramos, May, 1909: Province of 

 Rizal, Bosoboso, Bur. Sci. 1063 Ramos, July, 1906. 



Cuming's specimen has been referred by Schauer to Callicarpa longi- 

 folia Lam., var. subglabra Schauer, in conjunction with other specimens 

 from India, Java, and Japan. The description does not apply particularly 

 well to the Philippine plant, which to me does not appear to be very 

 closely allied to Lamarck's species. It is well characterized by lax cymes 

 and its entirely glabrous vegetative parts, or if pubescent at all, then 

 with simple, not stellate hairs, in this last character differing from most, 

 if not all, other species of the genus. Two specimens of Cuming's No. 

 1330 are in the Herbarium of the Bureau of Science, one with rather 

 narrow, somewhat pubescent leaves, and with pubescent stems and inflo- 

 rescence, quite manifestly a young stage of the plant, the other with 

 larger, glabrous leaves and inflorescence; this latter I have made the type 

 sheet. 



CALLICARPA RIVULARIS sp. nov. 



Species C. angustae Schauer simillima et valde aflEinis, differt 

 foliis paulo majoribus, nervis lateralibus paucioribus, indumento 

 plus minusve stellato-plumosis, antheris majoribus, 



A shrub, apparently sometimes subscandent, 2 to 5 m high. 

 Branches terete, or the ultimate ones somewhat compressed, very 

 densely covered with a whitish or yellowish-white indumentum 

 composed of short, stellate hairs, with some stellate-plumose ones 

 intermixed, the inflorescences, petioles, and lower surface of 

 the leaves with a similar indumentum. Leaves narrowly lan- 

 ceolate or narrowly oblanceolate, chartaceous, 10 to 18 cm long, 

 1.5 to 3.5 cm wide, the upper surface dark-colored when dry, 

 quite glabrous, or with few stellate hairs along the midrib, the 

 lower surface with a dense, whitish or yellowish-white indu- 

 mentum, about equally narrowed at both ends, the apex slenderly 

 acuminate, the margins in the lower one-half entire, above slightly 

 and irregularly denticulate; petioles about 1 cm long; nerves 

 about 9 on each side of the midrib, curved-ascending, anasto- 

 mosing, prominent beneath. Cymes axillary, solitary, the pe- 

 duncles about as long as the petioles, dichotomously branched, 

 the cymes rather lax, comparatively few-flowered, 3 cm in diam- 

 eter or less. Calyx somewhat funnel-shaped, about 2 mm long, 

 slightly 4-toothed, externally densely white- or grayish-puberu- 

 lent. Corolla-tube scarcely exserted, the corolla white, about 

 3 mm long, 4-lobed, slightly pubescent externally. Anthers 1.3 

 mm long, glandular on the back. Fruit globose, glabrous, about 

 3 mm in diameter, containing 4 pyrenes. 



