Aveusr 31, 1910] A New GENUS AND New SPECIES oF LEGUMINOSAE 695 
clustered at the ends only; calyx light green, sessile, turbinate, 
4 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide at the top, subglabrous; teeth 
5, shallowly rounded, fulvous ciliate along the margins; 
corolla creamy white, odorless, 7.5 mm. long, tubular below 
the middle, glabrous except the finely ciliate margins of 
the segments; lobes 5, equal, 3.5 mm. long, oblong, obtuse 
io acute at the apex; stameus numerous, monodelphous, 
| also creamy white, nearly twice as long as the corolla; fila- 
ments glabrous, curved. and interlaced above the middle; 
| anthers similarly white, 0.25 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, 
truncate at both ends; ovary glabrous, stipitate, terminated 
by a very slender glabrous style which bears a small stigma; 
pods not seen. 
Type specimen 11710, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. 
Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
A slender tree in moist fertile soil of a densely forest- 
ed flat on the trail to Apo near Mainit creek at 4000 feet. 
The Bagobos call it ‘‘Magat-carot’’. 
Very distinct from P. scutiferum (Bleo.) Benth. 
GLEDITSCHIA Linn. 
Gleditschia copelandii Elm. n. sp. 
A medium sized tree; stem 6 dm. thick, 15 m. high; 
main branches arising from the middle, numerously rebranch- 
ed ultimately, crooked with relatively short twigs; wood 
moderately hard, dingy white with a reddish center, bitter- 
ish, odorless; bark relatively thick, lenticelled, mottled, red- 
dish brown beneath the epidermis. Leaves alternate, copious, 
more or less scattered along the branchlets, pinnate; rachis 
puberulent, 3 to 5 em. long; leaflets 4 to 6 pairs, flat, as- 
cending, lucid above, of the same dark green on both sides, _ 
sessile, glabrous, drying greenish, subchartaceous, varying from 
1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, from 5 to 7.5 mm. wide a trifle below 
the middle, inequilateral, the upper margin straight from 
below the middle to the notched unequally lobed apex, base 
cuneate, the upper basal portion also straight and subparallel 
with the usually gray rachis, entire; midvein equally prominent 
on both sides, strict, glabrous, the faint lateral ones reticu- 
