2752 



Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



ward the apex and edges rugosely wavy; petiole glabrous, 

 brownish black, stout, 1 cm long, flat on the upper side 

 at the deeurrent distal end, narrowly grooved toward the 

 base; midrib prominent beneath and slightly raised along 

 the upper side, curing darker brown; lateral nerves 5 to 7 

 on each side, ascending and curved, faint, their tips anas- 

 tomosing, reticulations very numerous and quite evident 

 from beneath. Flowers in small axillary groups, ascending, 

 odorless; pedicel green, 6 mm long, terete, slightly thickened 

 toward the distal end, subtended by a pair or whorl of 

 short thick acutely pointed bracts, glabrate; bud subglobose, 

 3 mm in diameter; calyx green, 5 mm across, also glab- 

 rate, its 5 short teeth rotately spreading, rigid; corolla yel- 

 lowish, strongly imbricate, ultimately divaricately spreading, 

 alternating with the calyx teeth and as many, the inner 

 ones a trifle smaller, broadly elliptic or ovately elliptic, 4 

 mm long and nearly as broad, glabrous, minutely purple 

 streaked in the middle coriaceous region and sprinkled along 

 the marginal sides, entire, edges more or less wavy or re- 

 curved; ovary dark green, 3 mm across, 2 mm high, glab- 

 rous, dark reddish brown in the dry specimens, apex flat- 

 tened, terminated by a short style which is surrounded by 

 3 short and inwardly curved stamens; filaments compressed 

 especially toward the dilated base, 0.5 mm long; anther 

 rotund, 0.5 to 0.75 mm long, basi fixed, dehiscing longitu- 

 dinally at the top, connective very dark brown and thick, 

 cells light yellow. 



Type specimen number 12551, A. D. E. Elmer, Magal- 

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



Climbing upon a small tree in sand gravelly ground 

 along the wooded banks of the Pauala river at 750 feet 

 altitude. 



Named after M. A. Lawson an eminent English botanist. 



MALVACEAE 



Abelmoschos today ense Elm. n. sp. 



Bi or perennials; stems few to several from the same 

 root, green, only sparingly branched, 6 to 9 dm high, terete, 



