THE FLORA OF MOUNT PULOG. 
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quite glabrous. Flowers red or pink, subumbellately disposed at the 
ends of the ultimate branchlets, their pedicels about 1 cm long. Sepals 
broadly orbicular-ovate, acute, glandular-punctate- throughout, about 2 
mm long and wide, imbricate, their margins very minutely puberulent or 
glabrous. Corolla-lobes elliptic-ovate or ovate, about 5.5 mm long, 3 mm 
wide, blunt, sparingly glandular-punctate in the upper part, the base 
rounded or subauriculate, imbricate, the tube less than 1 mm long. 
Anthers 3 mm long, apiculate, the filaments very short. Ovary fer- 
ruginous-puberulent at the apex ; style 4 to 5 mm long. ' Fruit subglobose 
or ovoid, about 1 cm in diameter, reddish, becoming dark-purple when 
mature, apiculate. 
Confined to the mossy forest above an altitude of 2,250 m, C. M. Z. 18093, 
18097, 18137 (type), McGregor 8827; also represented by the following specimens: 
District of Lepanto, Mount Data, Merrill 44 96 , Bur. Sci. 5956 Ramos: Province 
of Benguet, Pauai, Bur. Sci. 4402, 4409 Mearns, Bur. Sci. 8489 McGregor, all the 
above specimens from similar habitats as those from Mount Pulog. 
This species is manifestly very closely allied to Ardisia serrata (Cav. ) Pers., 
which is widely distributed at low and medium altitudes in the Philippines; 
A. curtipes, however, differs constantly in its much smaller leaves, and in its 
shorter petioles, and accordingly is here separated from A. serrata. It is possible 
that the differentiating characters may be due to habitat, but, so far as our 
collections show, intermediate forms are not represented. 
DISCOCALYX Mez. 
1. D. philippinensis (A. DC.) Mez in Engl. Pflanzenreieh 9. (1902) 212. 
In the mossy forest, altitude above 2,250 m, C. M. Z. 18138. 
Widely distributed in the Benguet-Lepanto region, and on other mountains in 
Luzon; the type ( Cuming 1385) came from the Province of Nueva Ecija, Luzon, 
according to Cuming’s own list of localities; endemic. 
LOHERIA Merrill gen. nov. 
Flores reductione sexus alterius unisexuales dioici, 4- vel rariter 
5-meri. Sepala ut videtur imbricata, per anthesin aperta, basi usque 
ad medium partem connata, glabra, vix vel pauce punctata, . Petala basi 
breviter (0.5 mm) connata, glabra, supra prominente punctato-glan- 
dulosa, per anthesin reflexa, apice emarginata. Stamina petalis bene 
breviora ; filamentis latis, prope basim petalis affixa, quam antherae paulo 
longioribus ; antheris birimose dehiscentibus, basifixis, late triangularibus, 
acutis. Ovarium, glabrum, ovoideum ; stylo crasso, quam ovarium paulo 
longiore; stigmate diseoideo, lato. Placenta prope apicem uniseriatim 
4-ovulata. Fructus globosus, monospermus. Semen globosum, albumine 
valde ruminato. Frutex parvus, erectus vix ramosus; foliis alternis, 
amplis, breviter petiolatis, integerrimis, minute punctieulatis versus 
caulis apicem dense congestis. Paniculae 1 ad 5, basi bracteis numerosis 
scariosis congestis subtensae in ramis specialibus axillaribus crassis apice 
cicatricosis suffultis. 
