VIII, C. 6 
Merrill: Plantae Wenzelianm 
387 
acute, 3.5 mm long, 2 mm wide, prominently punctate with black 
and reddish-brown, round and oblong glands. Filaments about 
2 mm long, anthers oblong-ovate, very acute, prominently glan- 
dular on the back, 2 mm long. Ovary ovoid, glabrous about 1 
mm in diameter; ovules 8; style not exserted in bud, in flower 
4 mm long. Fruits ovoid, 5 mm long, when dry dark-brown and 
prominently verruculose-glandular. 
Leyte, Dagami, C. A. Wenzel (type), June 5, 1913; Bur. Sci. 15193 
Ramos, August, 1912, in forests, foothills, altitude about 60 meters. 
A very characteristic species manifestly allied to both the Philippine 
Ardisia scabrida Mez, an to the Malayan A. javanica A. DC., distinguished 
readily from both by its differently shaped, much longer, more numerously 
nerved leaves. 
APOCYNACEAE 
WILLOUGHBYA Roxburgh 
WILLOUGHBYA PAUCIFLORA sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, 5 m altus, inflorescentiis parce puberulis 
exceptis glaber; foliis oblongis vel oblongo-ovatis, chartaceis, 
usque ad 15 cm longis, acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 12; 
cymis axillaribus, puberulis, paucifloris, circiter 1 cm longis; 
corolla urceolata, 6 mm long, intus leviter pubescens. 
A woody vine reaching a height of 5 m, quite glabrous except 
the inflorescence. Branches terete, pale-olivaceous or greenish, 
the ultimate ones about 3 mm in diameter, sometimes a little 
compressed at the nodes. Leaves opposite, oblong to oblong- 
ovate or elliptic-oblong, chartaceus, 10 to 15 cm long, 5 to 7 cm 
wide, rather pale when dry, of the same color and equally shining 
on both surfaces, the apex prominently acuminate, the acumen 
rather abrupt, obtuse, 1 cm long or less, the base rather broadly 
rounded to somewhat acute; lateral nerves about 12 on each 
side of the midrib, spreading, slightly ascending, obscurely anas- 
tomosing, the reticulations slender, lax ; petioles about 5 mm long. 
Cymes axillary, solitary, few-flowered, about 1 cm long, the 
bracts ovate-oblong, 1.5 mm long, acute or obtuse, the bracteoles 
similar but somewhat smaller, the pedicels 1.5 to 2 mm long. 
Flowers white. Calyx about 2 mm in diameter, the lobes broadly 
ovate, minutely and sparingly puberulent, the margins minutely 
ciliate, about 1.5 mm long, rounded. Corolla-tube about 5 mm 
long, slightly enlarged in the middle, a little contracted at the 
apex, glabrous outside, slightly pubescent within, the mouth 
nearly closed, and with two, thick, narrowly oblong, about 1 
mm long appendages alternating with each segment, the corolla- 
lobes overlapping to the left, falcately twisted to the right. 
