951 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I. Art 16 
short pedicellate, 7 mm. long, obovoid, 5.5 mm. in diameter 
above the middle, yellowish but soon .turning to coal black, 
smooth, more or less grooved on the sides; calyx persistent 
on the fruit as a truncate rim; pyrene 4 mm. across, the 
nearly flat surface orbicular, other side roundly concave, 
black; flowers not seen. 
Type specimen 8584, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. Rare, and only observed 
in oak woods on Mount Santo Tomas at 2500 meters. It 
has some affinities to my P. subalpina, but with smaller 
leaves and smooth pyrenes. The leaf characters distinguish 
it at once from P. acuminatissima Elm. Named after Mr. A. 
Loher. 
Wendlandia membranifolia n. sp.— A shrub 3 m. high, 
with closely grained reddish wood and longitudinally checked 
bark; branches spreading above the middle, rather short and 
crooked, the ultimate twigs reddish brown pubescent. Stipule 
persistent, orbicular, 1 cm. across, strigose; petiole 1 to 2 em. 
long, pubcscent, b'ade 18 em. loug, 11 em. wide, usually 
elliptic or broadly oblong to obovate, apex obtuse or acute, 
base short attenuate or acute, membranous, subglabrous on 
the upper surface except along the nerves, soft pubescent 
beneath; nerves pinnatiform, 7 to 11 pairs, very prominent 
beneath and densely soft pubescent. Panicle terminal or 
subterminal, numerously branched and widely spreading, 1 
to 3 dm. long and almost that across, reddish brown pu- 
bescent, the branches divaricate, subtended by bracts; flowers 
tubular, white, more or less clustered in small groups, much 
spreading; calyx 1.5 mm. long, 1 mm. in diameter, urn 
shaped, obscurely 5-toothed, sparsely ciliate pubescent; cor- 
olla 6 mm. long, gradually thickened toward the top, pubes- 
cent on the interior; the 5 segments a trifle longer than 1 
mm., oblong or subelliptic, apex rounded, strongly reflexed, 
glabrous; filaments glabrous, 1 mm. long, alternating with 
the corolla segments, and inserted upon the throat; anther 
versatile, oblong, as long as the filament; style slender, 
glabrous; stigma bilobed into rather broad fleshy lobes. 
` — Type specimen 8946, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. Quite common but only 
