JaxvARY 25, 1908] A CENTURY or New PLANTS 320 
Type specimen 7569, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province ° 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1906. Found only here and there 
in the woods at 800 meters on Mount Banahao. 
STERCULIACEAE. 
Pterocymbium gigantifolium n. sp.— Tree, 5 m. high, 
palm like or with only a few short branches at the top; 
branches thick, not rebranched. Leaves more or less crowd- 
ed, soon falling and leaving large scars, rigid and scarious, 
shining green above, margins only slightly wavy, oblong or 
more properly broadly obovate, apex acute or obtuse, grad- 
ually narrowed to a small rounded or subauriculate base, 
3 to 6 dm. long, 2 dm. wide above the middle, 20 to 39- 
nerved; the nerves ascending, with the  reticulations very 
prominent beneath, subglabrous or with only a few stellate 
hairs; petiole 5 mm. thick, 1 em. long, ferruginous pubes- 
cent; bracts brown, 4.5 em. long, 1 cm. wide, lanceolate, 
sharply acuminate, slightly pubescent, hairs simple on the 
inner side, stellate on the outer. Inflorescence upon short 
recurved stalks immediately below the foliage 2 to 4 dm. | 
long, usually covered with short rusty brown hairs; flower- 
ing branchlets 1 to 2 em. long, divaricate, distichously re- 
branched, similarly pubescent; pedicels 3 to 5 mm. long, 
more densely pubescent; calyx or perianth thick and leathery, 
wrinkled when dry, with a very short rusty brown pubes- 
cence on the exterior, 15 mm. long, about 8 mm. in dia- 
meter, cup shaped, half way divided into 5 acute segments 
which ultimately recurve and expose the dense bristle cov- 
ered inner surface; these bristles are conspicuously lighter 
brown, and in the bud state are turned toward the center; 
filaments less than 1 mm. long, glabrous, united; anthers 
10, set parallel in a single series, forming a flattened knob 
like cluster, 1.75 mm. long, the ends inwardly bent, attach- 
ed or loosely grown together along the ventral side, longi- 
tudinally dehiscing; pistillate flowers not seen; immature pods 
‘or fruits 3, hard, pulverulent or velvety brown, lunate, 9 
em. long, 2 em. wide, equally tapering toward both ends, 
flattened, apparently 1-celled; seeds smooth, 12 to 15, ellip- 
tie, 1 em. long, 6 mm. in diameter, arranged along the con- 
