March 27, 1915] 



Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species -II 



2743 



Type specimen number 13169, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 



Collected in rich soil of dense forests at 750 feet altitude 

 and along the trail to Napsan. 



Allied to but not Fagraea racemosa Jack. 



Fagraea epiphytica Elm. n. sp. 



Large and coarse shrub, always epiphytic upon big trees; 

 stems few, ascending or horizontal, 8 to 15 cm thick, 3 to 

 7 m long, terete, sparingly branched from below the mid- 

 dle; wo )d dingy white, finely concentric, moderately hard, 

 the sapwood slightly bitter, odorless; bra noli lets long, curved 

 or drooping, the leaf bearing tips ascending and 2.5 cm 

 thick, doubly ridged between the opposite leaves which are 

 from 2 cm to 8 cm apart. Blades descending, thickly coria- 

 ceous, paler green beneath, greatly varying in size, the larger 

 ones 6 dm long and correspondingly wide, the average ones 

 nearly 4 dm long by 1.5 dm wide above the middle, oh. 

 ■ovately oblong, narrowly cuneate at the base, apex rounded 

 or occasionally obtusely so, entire, glabrous, edges coarsely 

 rugose, curing unequally brown on its 2 sides; true petiole 

 averaging 3 cm long, glabrous, very thick and gradually 

 extending into tjie blade or the decurrent blade extending 

 down along its sides, .at the end thickened or expanded into the 

 rugosely lobed thick plate which is of a darker green color; 

 midrib very stout and prominent beneath, less prominent on 

 the upper surface of the blade; lateral nerves 8 to 11 pairs, 

 divaricate, gracefully curved and gradually disappearing to- 

 ward the distal ends, the apical and basal ones short and 

 inconspicuous, cross bars and reticulations obsolete. Flowers 

 sweetly odorous, from 1 to 3 in the leaf axils or in the 

 axils of their scars; pedicel 3 to 5 cm long, glabrous, 

 usually curved, 1 cm thick at least, with a pair of bracts 

 above the middle, gradually thickened and extending into 

 the calyx portion toward the apex; bracts almost 2 cm long, 

 1 cm wide across the base, thick, glabrous, subacute at 

 the apex, middle basal region very thick, margins much thin- 

 ner; full grown calyx 5 cm long, the basal 1 cm united 

 and turbinate, 5-iobed, 2 cm wide across the concrete top; 



