March 27, 1915] 



Two Hundred Twenty S:x New Species— II 



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in small clusters but occasionally solitary, without odor; 

 pedicel 5 mm long, usually provided fit the base hy a pair 

 of short acutely pointed bracts or with a single bract to- 

 ward the base, puberulent or glabra te, dark green, at the 

 base subtended by short thick and usually acutely pointed 

 bracts; calyx broadly capillar, 3.5 mm across, glabrate when 

 old or puberulent, shallowiy rugose around the outside, only 

 one half as high, tapering at the base into the pedicel, the 

 basal one half united, thick and leathery; the 5 apical teeth 

 acute and erect, parallel veined, margins thinner and fine- 

 ly ciliate; the basal one third of the corolla united, nearly 

 glabrous, 3 mm long; segments ellipticaily oblong, with 3 

 parallel veins, imbricate, the free margins very minutely 

 ciliate, the rounded or subtruncate tips indexed in the bud 

 state, the free portion alternating with the calyx segments 

 and in anthesis recurved between them, falling as a whole, 

 villous about the inner side of the throat; stamens 5, al- 

 ternating with the corolla segments and inserted upon their 

 sinuses, subsessile, erect, introrse; anther 1.25 mm long, less 

 than I mm wide toward the base, apex abruptly rounded 

 and appearing with a subhyaline point, auriculately lobulate 

 at the base, flattened, nearly hairless on the back, quite 

 ciliate otherwise especially along the edges, ovately elong- 

 ated; filaments adnate clear to the base of the corolla: ovary 

 circular and much compressed, 1.25 mm across, the upper 

 or free portion strigose; style 0.5 mm long, glabrate; stig- 

 ma globose, a trifle less in diameter than the ovary, ap- 

 pearing puberulent. 



Type specimen number 12280, A. D. E. Elmer, Magal- 

 lanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 



Gathered in moist gravelly soil along the wooded Patoo 

 river banks at 1000 feet altitude. 



Most similar to Geniodoma cumingianxm) Brnth. founded 

 upon Cuming's number 861. Leaves similar, flowers dissimilar. 



Geniostoma mindanaense Elm. n. sp. 



Shrubby and suberect; stem 5 cm thick, 3 to 4 m 

 high, subterete, branched from below the middle; wood very 

 soft, greenish white, quite odorless and tn bark smooth, 



