376 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY {Vou, II. Ant. 17 
long, sparsely short brown pubescent on the outer side, 
leaving conspicuous scars; buds subglobose, 5 mm. thick; 
involucral bracts 4, yellowish, broadly ovate to elliptic, 5 
mm. long, glabrous, deeply spoon shaped, with comparatively 
thin margins, sprinkled with minute reddish hairs especially 
at the base, subtending 5 flowers; flowers subsessile or upon 
short reddish pubescent pedicels; perianth segments 6, oblong, 
occasionally unequal, oblong, covered with short reddish 
brown hairs especially towards the base, dotted above the 
middle, 3 mm. long; stamens about 9 to 10, the 6 to 7 
outer ones eglandular, the 3 inner ones provided at the 
base with a pair of broadly clavate short stipitate glands 
or excrescences; filaments filiform, 3 mm. in length, red- 
dish brown hirsutulose, the series somewhat shorter; anthers 
all introrse, 2 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, oblong, the ends 
similarly subtruncate, 4-celled, the cells opening by hang- 
ing lids from the upper end, the upper pair of cells on 
the ventral side, the lower pair nearly on the lateral side; 
pistil glabrous, superior or only the basal portion sunken 
into the perianth, 3 mm. long; the thick style not distinct 
from the elongated ovary, bearing a woolly somewhat ex- 
panded stigmatic surface; fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 10178, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, May, 
1908. ; 
Of this species only one tree was noticed on the nor- 
thern side of a dry rocky wind swept ridge at 3250 feet 
altitude. The bud state of it was observed for two or 
three weeks prior to anthesis, In some of the larger flowers 
are 10 stamens while a few of the smaller ones contain 
only 6. = | : 
ENDIANDRA R. BR. 
Endiandra arborea Elm. n. sp- ; 
: A large 8 to 12 m. high tree, branched above the middle; 
the ultimate branchlets slender, rather numerous, covered with 
gray bark, only the young tips short cinnamon brown tomen- 
tose; wood soft and easily breaking; bark smooth and yel- 
lowish. Leaves alternatingly scattered, rigidly chartaceous, 
