JANUARY 25, 1908] A CENTURY or New PLANTS 292 
Type specimen 7358, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province 
of Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. An undershrub in forested 
ravines at 330 meters. Very rare. Not having observed the 
flowers, there remains some doubt as to the proper genus. 
Its habitat and the foliage strongly resembles Uvaria alba 
Merr. d 
Polyalthia reticulata n. sp.—Erect shrub, about 2 m. 
high; branches few and divaricate from the stem, horizon- 
tally spreading, quite rigid and thick; bark checked and lenti- 
celled. Leaves divaricate and similarly spreading, chiefly 
toward the ends of the twigs, 3 cm. long, 6 cm. wide, scarious 
but rigid, narrowly oblong or lanceolate, gradually tapering 
toward the apex into an acuminate point, base obtuse, ob- 
liquely auriculate, glabrous, darker green above; petiole proper 
3 mm. long, but the 5 mm. thick brown glabrous portion 
about 1 cm. in length; lateral nerves about 18 on each side, 
reticulately united some distance below the margin, usually 
alternating with quite prominent secondary ones, retieulations 
also prominent, midrib very conspieuous beneath and canicu- 
late above; peduncles lateral along the branches, pendulous, 
very slender and glabrous, 5 to 9 cm. long, 1 to 3- clustered 
or only solitary from the axils of the leaf scars, persistent, 
subtended at the base by a dense tuft of rufous colored hairs; 
flowers purplish, pendulous, thick and rigid; calyx of 3 
segments, persistent, the lobes triangularly acute, 4 mm. long; 
corolla not conniving, straight, or only at the base somewhat 
concave, of 6 equal segments, the lower one fourth united, 
about 14 mm. long, usually a trifle constricted toward the 
base or subpandurate; the lobes strap like, obtuse, 4 mm. 
wide, granular; stamens very numerous, 1.5 mm. long, gradually 
tapering from the base; filaments flattened and with byaline 
margins, the anthers concealed by the thick and oblique over- 
lapping connectives. 
Type specimen 7272, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. A fine erect tree like under 
shrub on stream banks of very humid wooded ravines. Rare. 
Uvaria zschokkei n. sp-—Scandent by loops, its tough 
rather flexible branches forming tangled masses over the tops 
of thickets; stems 2 cm. thick, with white wood covered with 
