March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2729 



axils, erect, 1 to 2 dm long, when solitary branched from 

 below the middle, or with 3 stalks from the base and of which 

 the middle one is the longer; branches ascending alternate, 

 green; bark turning reddish brown on the exposed side, 

 in the dry state appearing compressed, rebranched from above 

 the middle, the younger ones latericius short tomentose; 

 buds umbellately clustered toward the distal ends of the 

 branchlets, subtended by small similarly tomentose and ca- 

 ducous bracts; flowers in anthesis ochroleucus, when old 

 dull purpureas, all stages of development on the same in- 

 florescence and thereby variously colored ; strict pedicel 3 

 mm long, short fulvus pubescent, subtended by thick acute 

 bracts covered with similar hairs; outer series of perianth 

 segments 3, brown strigose on the outside, 1.5 mm long, 

 ovate, clearly punctate, rigid; the inner series of 3 segments 

 alternating with the outer series, all united, at the base 

 broadly ovate, at least 2 mm long, less pubescent on the 

 outside, also punctate; stamens apparently sterile, forming 

 a thick cartilaginous more or less hairy rim ; the sessile or 

 nearly sessile anthers introrse, apparently minutely 4-celled; 

 pistil well developed, 1.5 mm long, glabrous; ovary ovoidly 

 ellipsoid, style very short, stigma expanded. 



Type specimen number 14027, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta) , Province of Agusan, Mindanao, October, 

 1912. 



Gathered in loose more or less stony ground deeply 

 covered with humus of a densely shaded or forested de- 

 pression along the Catangan creek at 3000 feet altitude. 

 Only one tree was found and my Manobo cargadore called 

 it "Pamoteon." 



Only distantly related to my Persea leytenm and it 

 may possibly belong to the genus Cryptocarya. This same 

 species has previously been collected at Placer and on Di- 

 nagat island of Surigao province by Sr. J. F. Quadras in 

 the year of 1901. I was wrong in referring the Surigao 

 specimens under Persea leytenm Elm. on page 384 of this 

 publication. 



