March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six Nkw Species— II 2725 



ter, odorless, soft, only the thin sapwood whitish; hark thick, 

 gray and brown mottled, smooth, flavus except the epider- 

 mis; branches spreading, crookedly rebranched, the ultimate 

 ones slender and green, glabrous, striate, black when dry. 

 Leaves alternate, ascending or horizontal, nearly flat, entire 

 or margins coarsely wavy especially toward the bluntly pointed 

 acute to obtuse apex, broadly cuneate toward the obtuse 

 base, glabrous, elongated, thinly chartaceous, subglaucous 

 green beneath, averaging 3 dm long by 1 dm wide across the 

 middle or the widest portion, curing unequally green on the 

 2 sides; midrib ridged beneath, yellowish green yet nearly 

 black in the dry state, plane and brown on the upper side; 

 lateral nerves of 14 to 19 pinnate pairs, similar in color 

 when fresh and when dry, less prominent than the midrib, 

 tips ascendingly curved and gradually disappearing, cross 

 bars faint, reticulations numerous and quite evident from 

 both sides under a lens; petiole also glabrous, ascendingly 

 curved, yellowish green, pure black when dry, subterete, nar- 

 rowly grooved on the upper side, 1.75 cm long. Flowers 

 solitary or 2 to 3-clustered, mainly from the leaf axils; pe- 

 duncle about 1.25 cm long, ascending, yellowish green, pu- 

 berulent, subtended by bract vestiges; buds globose, ash-- 

 gray; involucral bract thickly coriaceous, deeply concave on 

 the upper side, glabrous, 5 to 7 mm long, about 5 mm 

 wide across the middle, broadly elliptic, pulverulent or pa* 

 berulent on the exterior, severally nerved, broadly rounded at 

 the apex, spreading in full anthesis; flowers faintly odorous,, 

 few to 5-grouped in each head, also spreading; pedicel com- 

 paratively thick, 3 mm long, finely pubescent; perianth 3 

 mm long, 1 mm wide, narrowly oblong, membranous, glab- 

 rate and densely punctate, 7 or more in number, divaricate 

 and wrinkled; fertile stamens about 8 or 9, with apparently 

 3 much shorter and sterile ones; filaments of the longer 

 stamens filiform, strigose, curvingly spreading, 3 mm long, 

 alternating with the perianth segments; anthers basifixed, 

 introrse, 0.25 mm long, 0.6 mm wide, truncate at both ends, • 

 flattened, the 2 pairs of anther cells lateral and closed 

 over with hanging lids, ovate to obovately oblong; style few 

 mm long, thick, glabrous, bearing a capitate stigma. 



Type specimen number 13427, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 



