March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2767 



1 cm long, strict though oblique, terminated by a smaller 

 capitate stigma. Capsule triangular, truncately obovate, 5 mm 

 long, as wide across the top, brown and chartaceous, per. 

 sistent upon the pedicels, erect, the 3 cells dehiscing from 

 the apex; placenta central, 3- winged especially toward the 

 top, darker than the cell walls; seeds very numerous, 0.75 

 mm long, light brown, obliquely truncate at both ends, 

 angularly flattened, apparently winged on one side. 



Type specimen number 14135, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ober, 1912. 



Scattering in wet red earth covered with a good layer 

 of humus on a steep and forested incline along the trail on 

 the south side of Cawilanan peak at 4500 feet altitude or 

 about 500 feet below the summit. In the Manobo dialect 

 it is called "Tagcaro." 



Sonerila xooodii Merr. but leaves average smaller, more 

 ciliate especially along the edges and with a shade of steel 

 blue or lilac. Its flowers are lilac rather than pink but 

 otherwise the same as Merrill's species. 



MELIACEAE 



Vavaea ardisioides Elm. n. sp. 



Large tree; trunk 1 m thick, 20 m high, bole-like, 

 slightly wadded toward the base, its main branches arising 

 from the middle or above it; wood moderately hard, thin sappy 

 portion dingy or yellowish white, the interior portion isa- 

 bellinus brown, quite without odor or taste; bark 2.5 cm 

 thick, very dark brown on the smoothish or thinly scaling 

 surface, almost cremeus otherwise; main branches spreading, 

 ultimately numerously and crookedly rebranched, the short 

 twigs arising in subwhorls and ascendingly curved, only 

 the young tips puberulent. Leaves crowded toward the ends, 

 subcoriaceous, alternate, grabrous, curing equally brown on 

 both sides, when fresh much lighter green beneath, ascend- 

 ing or horizontal, conduplicate, diverse in size, the average 

 one9 1 dm long by 4 cm wide above the middle, obovate 

 or obovately elongated, bluntly rounded and shallowly emar- 



