JANUARY 25, 1908] A Century OF New PLANTS 308 
top, horizontally spreading or ascending, frequently scattered 
along the upper portion of the stem: rachis brown, with 
similarly colored puberulent hairs, slender, usually curved, 1 
to 2.5 dm. long, leaflet bearing the entire length; leaflets 
distichous, flat, divaricate and horizontally disposed, mem- 
branous, alternating, about 4 mm. apart, shining green above, 
much paler or subglaucous beneath, glabrous, inequilateral, 
the average ones 2 em. long and 1 em. wide, rhomboidly 
rectangular but usually a trifle wider above the middle, apex 
truncately rounded and finely apiculate, base obtuse or sub- 
cuneate, sessile, subtended by 1 to 3 subequal brown per- 
sistent sharply acuminate bracts, midvein prominent beneath 
and curvingly oblique. Flowers chiefly in the upper leaf 
axils, 1 to 5-clustered, mostly ascending but recurved in 
fruits; the peduncle about 2 em. long, very slender, glabrous, 
thickened at the apex; calyx 4, subpersistent, triangularly 
ovate, 2 mm. long, pectinate, 1l-nerved and with fine lateral 
ones, spreading but the tips usually incurved; corolla of 4 
petals, entire, glabrous, broadly flattened, 0.5 mm. long, 0.75 
. mm. wide, truncate at the apex, inserted upon the base of 
the calyx; disk prominent, 0.75 mm. across, shallowly 4-lobed; 
style 6, very short; stigma minute; ovary glabrous; cap- 
sule smooth, yellowish brown, 3-ridged or angled, 3-celled, 
4 mm. long, at least that in diameter, the apex truncate, 
loculicidally dehiscent; seeds mostly 1 in each cell, ovately 
oblong, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide at the base, smooth, triangu- 
larly flattened, at the middle ventral side attached to the 
central placenta, apex ,pointed, base broadly rounded. 
Type specimen 7267, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province 
of Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. In fertile soil of creek bot. 
toms covered with woods and undershrubs. Near to P. blan- 
coanus Muell. Arg. but smaller, not verticillately branched, 
styles distinctly more numerous and foliage not at all linear. 
Pimeleodendron dispersa n. sp.—Lax shrub, 3 m. high; 
branches smooth, gray. Leaves flat, submembranous, alternate, 
very variable in size, oblong or obovate, apex acute or obtuse, 
base rounded or abruptly obtuse. the larger ones 3 dm. long 
by 1 dm. wide, glabrous; nerves 9 to 13 pairs, rather faint, 
the midrib equally prominent on both sides, reticulations 
