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al30 conspicuous beneath and similarly hairy, the basal 

 pairs 3 -branched along the lower side, the apical pair sub- 

 parallel to the midvein, cross bars or reticulations fine and 

 very obscure; petiole 1 cm long, at first olivaceus pubes- 

 cent, soon becoming glabrate. Inflorescence greenish through- 

 out, when dry short olivaceus pubescent or puberulent; 

 spikes solitary or few clustered, terminal or from the up- 

 permost leaf axils, very slender, 2 to 3 or more dm long, 

 usually leaf bearing toward the base; fruits scattered, soli- 

 tary or 2 to 3-clustered; pedicels slender, 3 mm long, soft 

 pubescent, subtended at the base by 1 or more bracteoles; 

 carpels 3-winged, 5 mm high or long, 5 to 8 mm wide, 

 dry and glabrous. 



Type specimen number 11308, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

 (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 



Collected among jungled tree tops in the humid woods at 

 3750 feet elevation and along the Baruring river trail to Talon. 

 "Solo-Solo" is the Bagobo name. 



Possibly this plant should be considered a new species 

 rather than a variety of Oouania microcarpa DC. 



ROSACEAE 



Photinia urdanetensis Elm. n. sp. 



An upright and tree-like shrub; stem terete but crook- 

 ed, 1 dm thick at least, 5 m high, branched from the mid- 

 dle; main branches crooked, rigid, ascending, rebranched 

 toward the top; wood very hard, heavy, odorless and taste- 

 less, incarnatus on the outside, the heartwood atropurpureus; 

 twigs quite numerous, lax, relatively short, terete, the young 

 apical portions tawny pubescent, drying similar in color, 

 relatively short. Leaves very numerous, opposite, rigid, 

 mostly horizontal, the acute to acuminate apex recurved, 

 flat otherwise, lucid dark green especially above, paler green 

 beneath, deep brown when dry, obtuse at the base, entire 

 margins subinvolute in the dry state, from 3 to 5 cm long, 

 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide across the middle or just below it, 

 elliptic or ovately so, the smaller ones broadly lanceolate 

 and terminal, dark fulvus hairy when young, becoming 



