January 25, 1908] A CENTURY or New PLANTS 294 
ascendingly arched and apices connected, conspicuous beneath, 
its cross bars faint but numerous; petiole stout, 5 mm. long, 
ferruginous pubescent. Flowers terminal, lateral or axillary, 
pendulous, upon 3 to 5 em, long dark rusty brown pubes- 
cent peduncles which bear a single bract toward the base; 
calyx persistent, rigid, brown felty pubescent, spreading, its 
3 segments triangularly acute, 5 mm. long and nearly as 
wide at the base; outer 3 petals concave at the base only, lin- 
ear lanceolate, 13 mm. wide at the base, about 9 cm. long, 
gradually tapering from the rounded base, leathery, short 
brown pubescent on the outer side, rugose on the inner side, 
the inner base with 2 pubescent blotches; inner 3 petals 
about 3 em. long, the outer base and the inner surface 
rugose and glabrous, the middle back yellowish pubescent, 
thick, very concave at the base and 5 mm. wide, the upper 
three fourths linearly falsely united and tapering to a sharp 
point; stamens numerous, about 2 mm. long, oblique and 
subtruncate at apex; ovaries also numerous, oblong, densely 
covered with yellowish brown ciliate hairs, 2 mm. long; 
style clavate, usually curved, 1.5 mm. long; immature fruits 
were observed to be about 1 cm. long, ellipsoid, upon equally 
long rather thick pubescent pedicels, with prominent apical 
points. : 
Type specimen 9421, A. D. E. Elmer, Los Bafios, Province 
of Laguna, April, 1906. Evidently most closely related to 
O. filipes Hk. and Th., but with petals twice the size and 
with a differently shaped style and stigma. A more distant 
relative is O. glauca Hk. and Th. 
Oxymitra obtusifolia n. sp.—Subscandent shrub, 2 to 3 
m. high, sprawling; wood very hard and tough; bark of the 
branchlets finely checked, brown, the tips of the twigs short 
dark brown pubescent but soon becoming glabrous. Leaves 
submembranous, glaucescent beneath, glabrous above except 
along the caniculate midrib, elliptic or cuneate to abovate, 
the normal blades 13 cm. long and 8 cm. wide, rounded or 
only with a very short blunt point, base also rounded or 
emarginate, margins entire and inclined to roll upon the 
upper surface; petiole at least 6 mm. long, thick, rigidly 
recurved, dark brown pubescent; nerves rather straight and 
