FxaBRUARY 15, 1909] A Score or New PLANTS 575 
Type specimen 7639, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province of 
Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 
In the woods of mount Banahao from 1750 to 2500. 
feet. Several other sterile species were observed in this same 
place. 
An ally of M. palustris Benth., but scapes not glandular 
scabrous; spikes fewer, making a smaller head; and nar- 
rower more slenderly tapering leaves. 
ULMACEZE. 
APHANANTHE Planch. 
Aphananthe negrosensis Elm. n. sp. 
Tree, 8 m. high, with branches divaricately spreading above 
the middle; wood hard and heavy, concentric rings conspicuous, 
the sapwood white, the heartwood brown and much harder and 
tasteless; bark smoothish and mottled, the inner portion turning 
yellowish after being exposed; the twigs lax and slender, even 
the younger portions glabrous. Leaves alternate, chartaceous, 
descending, lucid dark green above, yellowish green beneath, 
curvingly conduplicate on the upper side, broadly lanceolate or 
subelliptic, entire, glabrous, apex slenderly acuminate, base 
obtuse and somewhat inequilaterally sided, greatly varying in 
size, the average ones 1 dm. long by 3.5 em. wide across the 
middle; petiole 1 cm. long, glabrous; midnerve prominent be- 
neath, reddish; lateral nerves straw colored in the dry state, 13 or 
more primary pairs, pinnate, alternating with reticulate secondary 
ones, obscurely united at the ends, not prominent. Male in- 
florescenee upon short flattened spikes, 1 to 2 cm. long, solitary 
or several clustered, from the leaf axils or in the axils of fallen | 
leaves, ascendingly spreading; buds reddish; flowers sessilly 
arranged in subdistichous rows along the upper side of the flat- 
tened rachis; calyx subglabrous, united at the base, in the bud- 
state arching over the center, adnate, the 4 segments. spreading Dua 
in anthesis, 2.5 mm. long, acute; stamens 4, opposite the sepals, —— 
in the bud state strongly inflexed, cream color; filaments glab- 
rous, flattened, gradually tapering from the base; anther basi- 
fixed, glabrous, 1 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, notched at 
apex, cordate a at the base, much gone. Aeris ae binning 
