March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2749 



somewhat drooping and recurved, yellowish brown on the 

 twigs, greenish, forming tangled masses. Leaves alternating- 

 ly scattered along the branchless, glabrous, descending, thickly 

 coriaceous, dull and deep green on the shallowly condupli- 

 cate upper side, much lighter green beneath, the short obtuse 

 or acute apex recurved, base broadly rounded, margins entire, 

 in the dry state involute or slightly rolled upon the lower 

 side, ovate or ovately oblong, drying equally brown on both 

 sides, diverse in size, the normal blades 18 cm long and 

 one half as wide below the middle; midrib bold beneath, 

 ftirrowel on the upper side; the lateral nerves about 5 pairs, 

 much ascending, coarsely forked toward their ends, reticula- 

 tions very coarse and obscure; petiole glabrous, very thick 

 and fleshy, 3 cm long, broadly expanded and slightly groov- 

 ed above. Flowers odorless, 1 to 3 -clustered from the leaf 

 axils or from the axils of fallen leaves, upon terete 1.5 cm 

 long bracteate pedicels; perianth segments greenish on the 

 outer exposed side 1 *, otherwise bright apple red, all ascending 

 and imbricate, about 15 more or less, smooth and glabrous, 

 erect and closely encircling the sexual organs, the middle 

 one the largest, nearly 3 cm long and one half as wide, 

 broadly oblong, the outer basal ones much shorter and rel- 

 atively broader, the inner ones very thick, narrower and 

 a trifle shorter than the largest bracts, all more or less 

 united toward the base; the pistillate one soon turning red- 

 dish, upon a stout 5 mm thick stalk, 1.25 cm long, nearly 

 1 cm thick at the base; ovaries numerously imbricated, 

 glabrous, oblong with truncate ends, angularly compressed, 

 2.5 mm long, 1.25 mm thick or wide, nearly black in the 

 dry state; stigma brown pubescent, attached subterminally 

 or sublaterally, obscurely compressed, 1 to 1.5 mm long, 

 curved. Fruits apparently young, ovoidly globose, 5 cm across, 

 hard, green except the inner side of the carpels which is 

 deep red . 



Type specimen number 11718, A. D. E. Elmer, Todays 

 Oft* Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 



Discovered this magnificent species in a very humid dense- 

 ly forested depression along the Mainit creek toward the 

 Sibulan river at 4000 feet altitude. The Bagobos call it 

 "Lomabog." 



