17,8 Merrill: Studies on Philippine Rubiaceae, IV 461 
A glabrous, unarmed shrub or small tree. Leaves charta- 
ceous, oblong to oblong-elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, pale oliva- 
ceous and shining when dry, 6 to 11 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, 
subequally narrowed to the slenderly acuminate apex and the 
cuneate or somewhat decurrent base; lateral nerves usually 5 
on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct, the reticulations 
lax, sometimes obsolete; petioles about 5 mm long; stipules 
lanceolate, acuminate, from a broadened base, about 3 mm long. 
Fruits axillary, usually solitary, peduncled, narrowly ellipsoid, 
12 to 14 mm long, black when dry, the base narrowed, somewhat 
acuminate, the apex rather prominently rostrate, glabrous, 
crowned by the somewhat produced, rather narrow, cylindric 
calyx-tube and by the linear, 1.5 to 2.5 mm long calyx -teeth; 
pedicels 1.5 to 2.5 cm long, slender, their basal parts supplied 
with 1 or 2 pairs of small bracts. 
Bucas Grande, Bur. Sci. 35102 Ramos & Pascasio, June 11, 
1919, in dry forests. 
A species well characterized by its slenderly acuminate leaves 
and by its long-pedicelled, distinctly rostrate fruits. It some- 
what resembles Randia samalensis Elm. but differs radically in 
its glabrous calyces, elongated pedicels, etc. 
TARENNA Gaertner 
Many botanists have maintained Webera Schreber (1791) as 
the valid generic name for a rather ill-defined group of rubia- 
ceous plants, consistently overlooking the fact that Webera Hedw. 
(1782), a valid and universally recognized genus of mosses, 
invalidates Schreber’s use of the same name for a genus of the 
Rubiaceae. Schreber cited Chomelia Linn, as a synonym of his 
genus, but under our present rules of nomenclature Chomelia 
Linn, has no standing, and is, moreover, invalidated by Cho- 
melia Jacquin. Webera, as defined by Schreber, has two-celled, 
two-seeded fruits, and hence cannot be a synonym of Tarenna 
Gaertner. Tarenna Gaertner 2 was based on a Ceylon specimen, 
the species being known to the natives as tarennae. While 
Gaertner specifically described the flowers as 4-merous, there is 
every reason to believe that this statement is an error, and that 
the plant he had in mind is the form described by Linnaeus as 
Rondeletia asiatica Linn., and described by Trimen 3 as Webera 
corymbosa Willd. Trimen gives Rondeletia asiatica Linn., Ta- 
2 Fruct. 1 (1788) 139, t. 28. 
8 FI. Ceylon 2 (1894) 328. 
