632 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, ART. 34 i 
toward the distal end where it measures 2 to 3 mm.; thick 
sepals 5, deciduous, leathery, densely pubescent on the outer 
side, subspatulate, 6 to 9 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, finely striate, 
obtuse at both ends, in the bud state united toward the base, 
ultimately free, brown on the inner side; petals of the same 
number, deciduous, nearly 5 mm. long, at least 1 mm. wide, 
yellow, strap-like, the basal one third provided upon the upper side 
with a finely fringed and suborbicular appendage; stamens 
indefinite, subpersistent; filaments filiform, glabrous, yellowish, 
subequal, curved and interlaced, the longer ones 5 mm.; anthers 
less than 0.5 mm. in diameter, broadly ovate or suborbicular, 
basifixed, shallowly lobed at the base; ovary densely hairy, 
ovoid; style mostly glabrous, usually curved, bearing a terminal 
much flattened disk-like stigma; fruits globose, 6 mm. thick, 
covered with fine gray hairs, 4-celled, each cell with 1 to 3 seeds; 
seeds brown, much flattened, triangularly in outline. 
: Type specimen 10316, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
is Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, June, 1908. 
: Variously sized trees scattered iu dry soil of hot open grassy 
slopes at 1200 feet altitude. 
This. same spécies the writer collected a few years ago in 
northen Luzon, and was distributed as G. tilixfolia Vahl. In 
the herbarium, Bureau of Science, are many specimens collected 
by as many collectors and which have been identified with Vahls’ 
species. Through the kindness of the curator of the herbarium, 
.  .. Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, I am permitted to have before 
oe me typical G. tilixfolia Vahl which has perfectly glabrous twigs 
and leaves, and the much slenderer peduncles and pedicels are 
. two to three times as long. 
