578 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vou. II, ART. 29 
the 4 segments nearly free, rather thick, triangularly obtuse, 
0.75 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide at the base; corolla segments 
4, alternating with the sepals, white and with a tinge of red, 
oblong, 1.5 mm. long, 0.75 mm. wide, slightly clawed at 
the base; stamens 8, spreading; filaments filiform, glabrous, 3 
mm. long, arising from between stipular glands, reddish toward 
the base; ovary densely hairy, less than 1 mm. long; styles 2, 
short, glabrous, tapering into the brown stigmas; fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 9656, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 1908. 
A large rigid shrub or more often tree like in stature, in 
dense well interlaced jungles of shrubberies on a wind swept 
ridge at 4250 feet. Rare and only observed in one place. 
Flowers distinctly fragrant. The Visayan name is '"Tangolamos- 
itum." 
Approaches Vidal's W. luzonensis, but leaves always trifoliate 
and entirely glabrous; filaments much larger. 
ROSACEA. 
PARINARIUM Juss. 
Parinarium coccineum Elm. n. sp. 
Tall tree, 25 m. high or higher; stems 7.5 dm. thick; 
branches scattered above the middle, divaricate, comparatively 
short, crookedly rebranched; wood reddish white, quite hard 
and burly; bark thick, irregularly checked, reddish except 
the brown surface. Leaves alternate, leathery, dull green 
above, paler beneath, conduplicate on the upper side, glabrous 
except for the very minute hairs along the nerves and retic- 
ulations beneath, elliptic or ovately elliptic, entire, apex 
obtuse, base broadly obtusely rounded or subtruncate, and 
provided with a pair of glands beneath, margins sub- 
involute, 14 cm. long, 8 em. wide; nerves conspicuous 
beneath, 7 to 9 pairs, oblique, tips archingly connected, 
reticulations numerous and very evident; petiole 1.5 cm. 
long, glabrous, caniculate along the upper side, frequently 
glaucous. Infrutescence axillary, spicate, from 5 mm. to 5 
em. long; the stalk stout, rigid, glabrous but with evidences 
of a yellowish brown pubescence; fruits sessile or upon very 
