March 27, 1915] Two Hundrkd Twenty Six Nbw Spkcies— II 2803 



entirely glabrous; midrib prominent beneath, plane above; 

 lateral nerves oblique, very obscure from the nether minutely 

 punctate side, 13 to 17 main pairs, cross bars or reticula- 

 tions obsolete; petiole subcompressed, 3 mm long, relatively 

 very thick. Panicle erect, 3 to 5 cm long, terminal or also 

 from the uppermost leaf axils, very short branched toward 

 the top; peduncles strict, striate, 2 to 3 cm long, fulvus 

 pubescent; flowers odorless, few clustered from the ultimate 

 branches, ascending in the bud state, when in anthesis 

 usually recurved; pedicles 5 mm long, finely pubescent, at 

 about the middle bearing a whorl of 3 bracts; bracts vary- 

 ing from 1.5 to 2.5 mm long, oblong, obtuse at the apex, 

 rigidly chartaceous, similarly pubescent; calyx 4.5 mm high 

 and nearly as broad, broadly cup shaped, puberulent or 

 finely pubescent on the back especially the 5 segments; seg- 

 ments very broadly ovate, rigidly coriaceous, less than 2 mm 

 long, 1 mm wider; petals as many as calyx lobes and al- 

 ternating with them, coriaceous, 2.5 mm long and as wide, 

 broadly ovate, puberulent on the dorsal side of the middle 

 portion, with few punctate glands above the middle only, 

 cuneate toward the truncate base, widest across the middle; 

 stamens about 10, erect; filaments from 1.5 to 3 mm long, 

 glabrous, subterete, pointed at the apex, widest below the mid- 

 dle and inserted upon the rim-like base; anthers subdorsifix- 

 ed, oblong, 0.5 mm long, with a pointed apex, base broadly 

 rounded and minutely notched; ovary surrounded by a 

 glabrous rim, compressed globose, less than 2 mm across, 

 minutely pubescent, brown when dry, bearing a mucronate 

 nearly black and glabrous stigma. 



Type specimen number 13691, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ember, 1912. 



Discovered among the low rigid woods along a wind 

 swept cold and mossy ridge at 5500 feet of mount Urda- 

 neta or Masay as the natives call it. Named "Sambolanan" 

 by the Manobos. 



