496 
LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY (Vor. II, ART, 24 
toothed or lobed, united at the very base, lanceolate to 
oblongish; calyx segments 4, deciduous, oblong, very  coria- 
ceous, spreading, densely stellate pubescent on both sides, the 
entire margins somewhat curved upon the upper side, oblong, 
obtuse at apex, 15 mm. long, 6 mm. wide above the middle, 
nearly free at the hase, persistent, often with a tinge of red; 
petals free and alternating with the sepals, pale pink or whitish, 
linear, 12 mm. long, 8 mm. wide, apex obtuse, reflexed 
from the callous suberect pubescent basal portion, subglabrous 
on the upper surface, yellowish pubescent beneath, inserted 
upon the basal upper portion of the calyx; stamens num- 
erous, subequal, erect, inserted upon the basal portion of the 
superior ovary; filaments glabrous, filiform, whitish, the longer 
ones 6 mm.; anthers brown, versatile, ellipsoid, nearly 1 
mm. in length, persistent and strongly recurved, shedding 
an abundance of yellow pollen prior to the spreading open of 
the calyx and corolla segments; ovary 2-celled, numerously 
ovuled, densely covered with yellowish tuftlets of ciliate hairs; 
capsule flattened at right angle to the dissepiment, sub- 
orbicular from the side view, lenticular from the edge, 2 
em. wide, a few less mm. in the height, apex more or 
less truncate and terminated by a minute point, densely ‘and 
persistently covered with a short ciliate matrix, or felt like in 
appearance and sprinkled with tuftlets of deciduous long 
ciliate hairs, smooth and grayish on the inside; seeds dry, 
lenticular, dull brown, attached to the toothed or pectinate 
thick membranous receptacle, 2 mm. in diameter, nearly 
plane and obscurely rugose on the side turned to the placentae, 
very convex and nearly smooth on the opposite side, the 
edges densely provided with persistent brownish 3 mm. long 
hairs. 
Pad Type specimen 9649 for flower and 10358 for fruit, A. 
VIE D 
. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos Mountains, province of 
Negros Oriental, Negros, March and June respectively, 1908. 
On ridges at 2500 to 3500 feet, scattered in the woods 
of the lower fog limit throughout this region. "The fruit and 
seeds are exactly as Trichospermwm mindanaense Merr. described 
from Mrs. Clemens collection of lake Lanao, central Mindanao. 
The involucre and the 4-merous flowers alone place our specimens 
