March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2741 



middle ones straight and stouter, reddish brown and smooth 

 when dry, dull yellow, the lateral pair arising a few mm 

 from the base and extending clear into the apex, reticula- 

 tions very plain on both sides, forming a faint submargi- 

 nal line; petiole 2 cm long, very thick and much ascendingly 

 curved, drying blackish, subterete, narrowly grooved on the 

 upper side toward the distal end, at the base surrounded 

 by a rigid glabrous 1 cm long or longer booted bract ob- 

 scurely reticulated toward the distal end, dull red in the 

 fresh state; its stipules usually developed into a pair of 

 tendrils. Infrutescence axillary, 5 to 8 cm long, usually only 

 one peduncle arising from the booted persistent bract, few 

 branshed from below .the middle; branchlets alternate, chiefly 

 from about the same region, as long or longer than the 

 peduncle proper, subtended by coriaceous glabrous bracts, 

 somewhat compressed and striate, glabrous, curing brown; 

 receptacle 4 to 7 mm in diameter, flatly globose, glabrous, 

 coarsely pitted; pedicels slender, strict, 1.5 cm in length, 

 glabrous, terete, thickened at both ends, spreading on all 

 sides, falling with the fruit; fruit nearly sulphureus, hard 

 and shining, flatly globose and terminally apiculate, 1 cm 

 in diameter. 



Type specimen number 13684, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ember, 1912. 



Upon a jungled ridge in a humid depression between Duros 

 and Cawiianan peaks at 3500 feet altitude. 



Distinguish from Smilax williamsii Men. in having larger 

 leaves with one pair less of lateral nerves and with terete 

 and perfectly smooth stems. It is more distantly related to 

 Smilax bracteata Presl. 



LOGANIACEAE 



Fagraea congestiflora Elm. n. sp. 



Very slender tree; stem terete, straight, 1 dm thick, 8 

 ra high; wood bitterish, odorless, moderately hard and heavy, 

 the sapwood whitish, otherwise yellowish brown; bark gray, 

 coarsely checked, pale yellow except the surface, relatively 



