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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



and shallowly eraarginate, with numerous veins, 8 mm wide; 

 wings 1 cm long, the basal 3 mm clawed, the lower side 

 nearly straight and contiguous in the early state, the upper 

 edge minutely undulate and lobulate at the base, rounded 

 at the apex, veiny and with greenish elongated striae in the 

 upper region, hyaline; keels as long, similar in texture and 

 markings, the lower edge nearly straight and contiguous 

 along the middle or above it, 3 mm wide, broadly rounded 

 at the apex, the base of the lamina with a tooth-like lobe and 

 with a 1.5 mm long claw, also veiny; stamens 1.25 cm 

 long, 10, united into a glabrous tube 2 mm thick at the 

 base and with an excrescence on the upper side near the 

 base, the curved portion open; free portion of the filaments 

 ascendingly curved, all glabrous; anthers broadly elliptic, 

 0.66 mm long, basifixed, laterally dehiscent; ovary 1.25 cm 

 long, subcom pressed, widest a trifle below the middle, strigose 

 except the ascendingly curved glabrous neck; stigma minute. 



Type specimen number 13493, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Ml, Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Aug- 

 ust, 1912. 



Covering dense thickets and woods on wet rocky banks 

 of the Catangan creek at 1000 feet altitude. The Manobo 

 name for it is "Bagodon-ihanon." 



Not Derris Philippine nsis Merr. which is based upon 11262 

 Cuming. Neither is it Dr. Perkins 1 Philippine species Derris 

 mindorensis or Denis micans. 



Cynometra copelandii Elm. n. comb. Gleditschia cope- 

 landii Elm. Leaf. Philip. Bot. n, 695, 1910. 



Cynometra whitfordii Elm. n. sp. 



A very small and upright tree; stem terete, 1 dm thick, 

 5 m high, branched from below the middle; wood reddish 

 brown, quite hard, odorless and tasteless; bark nearly smooth, 

 atropurpureus except the mottled epidermis; branches divar- 

 icate, repeatedly branched and horizontally spreading; the 

 ultimate ones crooked, relatively short, terete, rigid and tough, 

 the young tips tawny puberulent though soon becoming 

 glabrous. Leaves alternate, the terminal ones appearing op- 



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