DECEMBER 14, 1908] Taree Score or New PLANTS 497 
with Hulconia. Number 9649 has flowers nearly twice as large 
as H. involucrata Merr. 
The natives call it ''Langosig-dako." 
STERCULIACE. 
STERCULIA Linn. 
Sterculia multistipularis Elm. n. sp. 
Slender erect tree, 7 m. high; branches also slender, 
divaricate, gray, smooth or the tips of the 6 mm. thick twigs 
short ferruginous pubescent. Leaves usually crowded toward 
the ends of the twigs, flat, semirigid, with slightly recurved 
tips, lanceolate to narrowly oblong, quite variable, rounded 
bases, apex obtuse but more commonly acute to acuminate, 
the normal ones 16 cm. long and 4 em. wide, glabrous 
above except a few ciliate hairs along the caniculate midrib 
toward the base; nerves beneath very prominent, 9 to 11 on 
each side, ascending, minutely pubescent at least on the nerves 
and prominent reticulations, and more or less glandular; stipule 
comparatively thick, densely ferruginous or yellowish brown 
pubescent, with age becoming glabrate, 1 to 2 cm. long, 1.5 
mm. wide at the base, easily detached, densely clothing the 
twigs, setaceously acuminate. Inflorescence axillary, somewhat 
viscid, about 14 em. long, subpendulous, paniculate, brown 
pubescent; pedicels single or branched, very slender, 1 to 3 
em. long, mostly without minute subtending bracts, flexuose; 
calyx 10 mm. long, the slender acuminate segments 7 mm. long, | 
fifth segment equal or frequently much shorter, deep purple 
on the interior, the united basal portion urn shaped, with a 
small knob like thickening and extended into a slender ped- 
icel, sparsely brown pubescent on the outside, with denser 
lighter brown or gray pubescence on the inner side of 
the lobes; filaments glabrous, united at first but becoming 
shreddy, bearing a capitate cluster of irregularly disposed 0. 75 
mm. long anthers; pistil columnar, also glabrous. 
Type specimen 8525, A. D. E. Elmer, Ene province a e 
Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907.  — 
In dry ravines of the aad river canyon at 4000 feet. 
