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nous, lanceolate, 0.75 mm wide at the middle, sharply point- 

 ed at the apex, the midrib quite prominent and glabrous; fil- 

 aments varying from 1.5 to 4 mm long, also glabrous, co- 

 riaceous, subterete, more erect than the spreading stami- 

 nodes; anther I mm long, subbasifixed, compressed, ovately 

 elliptic from the side view, notched at the apex, laterally 

 dehiscent; ovary compressed, cuneate or short stipitate at the 

 base, 2 mm long, the basal portion provided with long yel- 

 lowish hairs, strongly bulged above the middle; style as 

 long, terete, fleshy, glabrous, ascending, terminated by a 

 minute stigma. Young pod erect, much compressed, rather 

 thick and hard, lune shaped. 



Type specimen number 13465, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ust, 1912. 



Collected in very damp humus covered soil mixed with 

 bowlders of a densely forested flat near the Catangan creek 

 at 1250 feet altitude. "Cato-cabinganan" is the Manobo 

 name. Dedicated to Dr. H. N. Whitford, formerly economic 

 and scientific forester of the Philippine government. 



Clearly related to Cynometra bijuga Span and apparently 

 distinct fron its varieties. 



Mucuna macmillani Elm. n. sp. 



A lofty tree climber or liana; stem 8 cm thick, terete, 

 very crooked and twining, mainly branched toward the top; 

 stem tissues nearly herbaceous, porous, divided into five red- 

 dish and five yellowish white alternating concentric zones, the 

 reddish portion freely bleeding with an incarnatus or pur- 

 pureus juice, quite odorless and tasteless; branches long 

 and rope-like, hanging from the tree tops over the creek 

 bed or spanning it entirely; the ultimate ones green, terete, 

 glabrous, tough, drying brown and minutely striate. Leaves 

 divaricate, widely scattering, alternate, trifoliate; petiole 1 

 dm long or less, glabrous, terete, the basal portion much 

 thickened and twistingly curved, 3 cm extended beyond the 

 lateral pair of leaflets, blackish brown in the dry state; 

 petiolule 1 cm long, thick, black when dry, occasionally 

 snbglaucous and usually puberulent; the interstipular bracts 



