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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



as wide across the truncate top which bears 4 detachable 

 segments, broadly rounded at the base, campanulate, densely 

 setose; calyx segments 1.5 cm long, expanded at the base, 

 smooth on the inner side below the middle, coriaceous, 

 slenderly tapering from the base to the apex, equal, 3 mm wide 

 at the middle, the median portion toward the base thick- 

 ened, ciliate hairy; setae on the concrete portion of the 

 calyx finely scabrid along the edges, the brown surfaces 

 smooth and shinning; petals 4, rose red or light pink, 

 early falling, 3.75 cm long, 2.5 cm wide toward the broadly 

 rounded or across the more or less irregularly lobed or 

 obliquely cut apex, cuneate and thickened toward the base, 

 broadly obovate in general outline, glabrous except the apical 

 edges which are usually brown ciliate; stamens 10, in 2 

 distinct series of 5; filaments of the larger series 1.33 cm 

 long, linear, glabrous, much flattened, those of the smaller 

 ones 1 cm long only; anthers of the smaller stamens ses- 

 sile, 1 cm long, linear, the acuminately pointed apex usually 

 curved, the cell portion laterally lobed and rugose, at the 

 base constricted into a pair of glands; anthers of the larger 

 ones a trifle longer and with a conspicuously curved fila- 

 mentous basal portion 1.25 cm in length, attached a trifle 

 above the bilobed base; style terete, 2.5 mm long, glabrous, 

 terminated by a minute stigma. 



Type specimen number 14168, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct- 

 ober, 1912. 



Discovered in soggy alluvial soil among dense jungles of 

 woods at the lower end of lake Danao at 5000 feet altitude. 

 "Caravan" in Manobo. 



Very closely related to Metastoma penicillatum Naud. and 

 Melastoma molle Wall. 



Atemecyloo agusanense Elm. n. sp. 



A small and handsome tree; stem 1 to 1.5 dm thick 

 5 to 8 m high, irregularly terete, branched from the middle 

 or from below it; wood hard, heavy, sapwood relatively 

 thin, central mass brownish, odorless and with a faint 

 sweet taste; main branches widely spreading, crooked, ulti- 



