March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2751 



truncately rounded at the apex, ascending; male and female 

 flowers forming an elongated cone 1.25 cm by 1 cm in 

 dimensions; staminate flowers numerous, spirally arranged 

 angularly compressed, the ventral side anther bearing, edges 

 brown fringed or ciliated, 1 by 2 mm, sessile, apex oblique- 

 ly truncate, the upper end usually tipped with a brown 

 ciliately margined membrane; pistillate less numerous and 

 only at the apical portion of the cone, very similar to the 

 staminate flowers except the truncately rounded crustaceous 

 stigma; ovules 2, smooth, lenticulate, encased in the basal 

 portion of the pistil. 



Type specimen number 13505, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ust, 1912. 



Foun \ among thickets and secondary woods along the fer- 

 tile stream banks at about 250 feet above ocean level. "Cano- 

 gon" in Manobo. 



The specimens collected in the lake Lanao region by 

 Mrs. Clemens have smaller leaves and flowers and no doubt 

 are Kadsura scandens Blm. The field note of the Lanao 

 specimens describes the flowers as red, ours are yellowish or 

 exactly sulphureus. 



MALPIGHIACEAE 



Hiptage Iawsonii Elm. n. sp. 



Scandent shrub; stem crooked, terete, 2.5 em thick, 

 flexible, only few branched toward the top; wood soft, 

 whitish, without odor or taste; bark grayish white, smooth, 

 green beneath the epidermis; branches quite rigid, occasional- 

 ly twining or twisting. Leaves chartaceous or rigidly coria- 

 ceous, descending, recurved, nearly flat, shining green above, 

 much paler beneath, the entire margins subinvolute or merely 

 recurved in the dry state, when dry brown beneath and 

 ater above, glabrous, opposite, apex obtuse or subacute and 

 recurved, obtuse toward the base though more or less decur- 

 rent at the base, subelliptic or oblongish, the larger blades 

 1 dm long and 4 cm wide at the middle or at its widest 

 part, most of them however somewhat smaller, folded to- 



