FEBRUARY 15, 19091 A Score or New PLANTS 577 
upper one half much constricted and divided into 4 acute 
or acuminate segments, below the middle bulging; ovary includ- 
ed, light brown puberulent, elongate ovoid, 2 mm. long, 
1.5 mm. in diameter at the base; style short, bearing an 
oblique callous dark brown stigma; nut yellowish, 5 cm. long, 
oblong in outline, similarly rounded at both ends; exocarp 
thick; the seed brown and covered with a meshed cartilag- 
inous dark red arile. 
Type specimen 10133, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, May, 1908. 
A fine appearing tree with numerous branchlets, rigid 
yellowish odorless flowers, and large nutmeg like fruits. Only 
one tree was found on a very steep wooded slope near the 
Bonyao river cataract at 2500 feet. 
Allied to G, paniculata (DC.) Warb. 
CUNONIACEJE. 
WEINMANNIA Linn. 
Weinmannia negrosensis Elm. n. sp. 
Tree like shrub, 3 to 5 m. high; branches rigid, erect; 
wood moderately hard, odorless, sappy red; bark smoothish, 
gray, only thinly checked. Leaves ascending, subcoriaceous, 
very smooth on both sides, glabrous, conduplicate on the upper 
side, dark green above, yellowish green beneath, always trifoliate, 
opposite, mostly seattered along the young glabrous twigs; petiole 
greatly varying in length, averaging 2 em. long; petiole of the 
terminal leaflet about the same length, that of the lateral leaflets 
shorter, all glabrous; leaflets quite variable in size, oblongish to 
subelliptic, the normal ones 9 em. long and 4.5 em. wide across — — 
the middle, the lower pair smaller, apex acute, base abrupt- 
ly attenuate and on the lateral leaflets inequilateral; margins | 
crenately serrate, slightly involute; midnerve prominent beneath, 
the 7 to 9 lateral pairs ascending, the reticulations comparative- ae 
ly conspicuous; stipules glabrous, foliaceous, rotund, 1 em. — 
long. Inflorescence terminal or from the uppermost leaf axils, 
erect, 7 to 11 em. long, mostly glabrous, the peduncle and 
portion of the rachis reddish; flowers scattered in subverticel- 
late clusters; pedicels 1.5 mm. long, glabrous; calyx glabrous, 
