2300 



Leaflets of Philippine Botant 



(Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



longer; the stigraatic portion distinctly elavate. 



Type specimen number 13392, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabadbaran 

 (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 1912. 



Inhabiting moist well drained soil of a forested ridge 

 at 2500 feet altitude on Giwantanan knoll. According to 

 the Manobos its vernacular name is "Salimay." 



Near to Helicia Integra Merr. though with larger leaves 

 which are not oblong to lanceolate and whose nerves and 

 cross reticulations are more prominent. 



RANUNCULACEAE 



Naravelia antonii Elm. n. sp. 



A medium sized tree climber; old stem 2.5 cm thick, 

 subterete; wood tissues in radial yellow and white sections, 

 pith large and white; bark very dull or dark brown and 

 more or less checked longitudinally, thick, of the wood color 

 except the surface; branches green, slender, the free ends 

 drooping, the tips glabrous and glaucous green, terete and 

 striate, very tough. Leaves leathery, ovately elongated, op- 

 posite, deeply folded upon the upper slightly greener side, 

 ater on both sides when dry, radially spreading, entire, trun- 

 cately rounded or shallowly cordate at the base, gradually 

 tapering to the bluntly rounded point which frequently be- 

 comes emarginate, 3-foliate, the average lamina 12 cm 

 long by 6.5 cm wide below the middle, glabrous even 

 when young; midrib straight or nearly so, quite evident 

 beneath, also nearly black when dry, with 2 or 3 pairs of 

 lateral veins, all arising from near the base, the basal pair 

 faint and relatively short, the next and inner pair much 

 ascendingly curved and along the outer side connected with 

 faint cross bars, reticulations none; petiolule 2 to 3 cm 

 long, ascendingly curved from the base, often twisted or 

 tendril-like, subterete, brown to black and curved, succu- 

 lent and green in nature; petiole divaricate, 1 dm long or 

 shorter, terete, wiry, flattened and expanded toward the 

 base. Flowers not seen. Panicle from the leaf axils; pe- 

 duncles occasionally tendril-like, very strong and wiry, straw 

 brown, the branched portion as long or longer; branches 



