March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2773 



around, dull green in the bud state, varying from 3 to 10 

 cm long, occasionally solitary but usually few clustered, al- 

 ternatingly branched from near the base; stalks appressed 

 tawny puberulent or pubescent, blackish brown when dry, 

 the ultimate portion appearing zigzag; flowers odorless, sub- 

 pendant, citrinus, usually 3 to 5-clustered; the clusters well 

 scattered, alternating and in the early state subtended by 

 a small light brown pubescent bract; the 3 pedicels more 

 or less united at the base and subtended by a short very 

 thick pubescent and persistent bract, the united portion more 

 or less expanded and irregular in shape; the pedicels pu- 

 berulous, slender, 5 to 8 mm long, perceptibly thickened 

 toward the distal end, characteristically curved, quite rigid, 

 the terminal one usually a trifle longer; bud ellipsoid, 4 mm 

 long, 2.5 mm thick, widest above the middle, pulverulent, 

 obscurely 3-angular or sided especially toward. the short ob- 

 tuse apex; perianth segments 3, opening from the apex to- 

 ward the base, the acute apical portion becoming recurved 

 and somewhat pubescent on the upper side, otherwise pu- 

 berulent, coriaceous; stamens united into an erect column , 

 subsessile or upon a very short filamentous glabrous tube, 

 3.5 mm long, 1.5 mm thick, the anther cells at the apex 

 free and only obscurely extended over the middle of the col- 

 umn. Fruit not found. 



Type specimen number 13715, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ember, 1912. 



In the humid forested depression between Duros and Ca- 

 wilanan peaks at 3500 feet above ocean. "Magandau" or 

 pretty in the Manobo dialect. 



Both the leaves and inflorescence sufficiently distinguish it 

 from Gymnacranthera paniculata (DC.) Warb. 



Oymnacranthera urdanetensis Elm. n. sp. 



An upright small or middle sized tree; stem 2 to 3 

 dm thick, 9 to 12 m high, terete, nearly straight, chiefly 

 branched toward the top; wood soft, whitish, streaked with 

 blood vessels, light in specific gravity; bark thick, dark 

 brown and scaling in plates, latericius except the epidermis, 



