DecemBer 14, 1908] Taree Score or News PLANT A79 . 
EVODIA Forst. 
Evodia pergamentacea Elm. n. sp. 
Stunted tree, 6 m. high; branches rigid and gnarly, with 
light brown bark; young twigs angular, yellowish tomentose; 
wood soft, white, light. Leaves parchment.like, subopposite, 
chiefly crowded at the ends of the twigs, trifoliate; peduncles 
stout, straight, short pubescent, varying from 2 to 5 cm. 
long; blades exceedingly variable, the larger ones 12 cm. long 
by 5 em. wide above the middle, glabrous except the midnerve 
and drying brown, beneath much paler when dry and mostly 
very fine pubescent along the nerves and reticulations, obovate, 
the apex rounded or only obtuse, base cuneate, entire, the 
edges strongly recurved or occasionally the whole blade concave 
below; nerves divaricate, 7 to 11 lateral pairs, prominent 
beneath, anastomosing, the reticulations also prominent; petioles 
stout, pubescent, 8 to 5 cm. long. Cymose panicle upon 
short or elongated pubescent peduncles arising mostly from 
the upper leaf axils, averaging 1 dm. long; ultimate peduncles 
as well as the 3 mm. long pedicels similarly pubescent, subtend- 
ed by minute bracts; calyx pubescent, rigid, rotately spreading 
when in anthesis, nearly 2 mm. across, united at the base, 
divided into 4 obtuse segments; petals free, punctate, 4, white, 
alternating with the calyx teeth, glabrous, 8 mm. long, oblong- 
ish acute, the apex subinflexed; stamens 4, alternating with 
the petals, inserted beneath the ovary; filaments glabrous, 
filiform, 4 mm. long; anthers versatile, ellipsoid, 1 mm. long; 
ovary flattened, densely tomentose, superior; style very short, 
bearing a dark brown subcapitate or only obscurely lobed 
stigma; fruit not seen. 
Type specimen 9504, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Orieutal, Negros, March, 1908. : 
Discovered in the moss laden Freycinetia jungles at- 5000 
feet and higher. Rare, and is known to the native woodsmen e 
and hunters as ""Tangulimus", | 
: Jt. is related to E. reticulata do. and E. LE Merr., * T 
but is we T distinct from herr Pat 
