Drcemper 14, 1908] THREE Score or New PLANTS 477 
pubescent, flattened, 1 mm. high, 1.25 mm. broad; style 
nearly obsolete, bearing a black callous rugose or faintly 3- 
: lobed stigma; capsule pulverulent, 6 mm. broad, flattened, 
= usually parted into three 1-seeded carpels, dehiscent; seeds 
b . Subglobose, 2 mm. in diameter, shiny, black. 
Type speeimens 10432 in flowers and 9529 in fruit, A. 
D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos Mountains, Negros Oriental, 
Negros, June and March respectively, 1908; also number 9628. 
The fruiting specimen was collected in humid woods on 
a ridge at 8500 feet; the flowering specimens at the Bon- 
yao river falls at 3000 feet. The wood, bark, aud flowers 
possess a very sweet odor. ‘‘Ticala-na-ihalas.’’ 
Not identical with M. luzonensis Engl. Our inflorescence 
is paniculately branched, not lax as in 732 Jagor, nor short 
and very sparingly branched as in 1819 Cuming. 
ZANTHOXYLUM Linn. 
Zanthoxylum diabolicum Elm. n. sp. 
Large spreading tree; stems 6 dm. in diameter, strict, 
forming a flat top; main branches thick, very crooked, spar- 
ingly rebranched; wood soft, odorless, tasteless, yellowish 
throughout except the thin whitish sapwood; bark smooth, 
mottled, reddish beneath the epidermis; that on the thick 
twigs very smooth and green, on the upper side densely cov- 
ered with hard, grayish brown very sharp pointed spines 6 
mm. long, less spinescent along the petioles and peduncles. 
Leaves alternate, toward the ends of the twigs, heavy, coriaceous, | 
ascending, imparipinnate, very unequal in size, from 3 dm. . 
to nearly 3 m. in length, with 3 to 9 pairs of leaflets; pe- 
tiole 1 to 3 dm. long, glabrous, glandular punctate, the up- . 
per side usually provided with few scattered spines; rachis 
similar, not spinescent; leaflets 8 to 5 cm. apart, deeply — 
curved upon the upper side, much darker green and lucid | 
on the upper surface, the tips abruptly recurved, glabrous, 
conspicuously glandular punctate, the normal ones 15 em. | 
long by ‘5 em. wide below the middle, ovately oblong, the | 
apex abruptly acute, the base broadly rounded but the lower | 
one half a few mm. longer, margins minutely involute, sub- 
