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relatively narrower across the base; main branches alterna- 

 tingly branched from below the middle, short testaceus to- 

 mentose; their branchlets slender, unbranched, bearing flowers 

 from near the base. Flowers yellowish green, caducous, quite 

 rigid, buds green, all subtended by green and subpersistent 

 bracts; pedicel nearly 2 mm long, pulverulent, subtended 

 by a broadly rounded persistent puberulent bract; calyx 5 

 mm long, almost 3 mm thick toward the top, dark brown 

 when dry, glabrous, at the base subtended by a pair of 

 leathery broadly elliptic 2 mm long puberulent bracts, uniqual- 

 ly and bluntly 5-toothed across the truncate apex; petals 

 glabrous, 7.5 mm long, very slenderly clawed below the 

 middle, inserted upon the basal portion of the calyx; ban- 

 ner erect and much recurved, the lamina portion broad 

 and irregularly 3-notched across the broad apex, truncate 

 and subauriculate at the base, sides rolled upon the ventral 

 surface; wings and keels not very unlike, the lamina por- 

 tion oblong, with the widest portion toward the broadly 

 rounded or snbtruncate apex, at the base aurioulately lobed, 

 rather straight, like the banner more or less veiny; stamens 

 6 ma long, tubular, straight, 1.25 mm thick, entirely glabrous, 

 10-ridged, only the apical 1.5 mm long portion free and 

 ascendingly curved; anthers very small, terminal, basifixed, 

 apparently notched at both ends; stipe very slender, gla- 

 brous, 1 to 1.5 cm long; ovary about as long, 3 mm wide, 

 very flat or rather thin, tapering toward the stipe, apex 

 obtuse and terminated by the 1 mm long style, about 3- 

 ovuled. 



Type specimen number 13733, A. D. E. Elmer, Cadbad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sept- 

 ember, 1912. 



This liana was found on a wind swept forested ridge 

 at 3500 feet of Duros peak. Manobos call it "Ticosmayadon." 



Related to a number of species but especially to Dal- 

 bergia pinnata Lour, and to Dalbergia tamarindifolia Rozb. The 

 former species Dr. Col. Prain in his monograph refers to 

 Dalbergia millettii Benth. 



