March 27, 1915] 



Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 



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yellowish, also glabrous and of an equal number, ovate to 

 elliptic, obtuse, 1.5 ram long by 1.25 mm wide below the 

 middle; stamens 5, glabrous; filaments subterete, attached 

 to the nether side of the ovary, at least 1.5 mm long; 

 anther dorsifixed, oval, 0.75 mm long, deeply emarginate 

 at the base; ovary disk-like, 1.25 mm across, with 4 sessile 

 stigmas. 



Type specimen number 14274, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio 

 (Mt. Santo Tomas), Province of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1912. 



Collected along an open more or less rocky ridge trail 

 at 6750 feet altitude. Along this same trail was seen a coarse 

 Anenome in flower and the only thistle species of the Phil- 

 ippines. 



Differs from Evodia dubia Merr. in being entirely gla- 

 brous, its leaflets broadest above the middle not at the 

 middle and which are more obtusely rounded at the apex. 

 Again, its leaflets are less than one half as large and foliage 

 more numerous than in typical Evodia return Merr. Bureau of 

 Forestry number 4965 from the same mountain is exactly 

 our species in fruit. 



Melicope mindanaensis Elm. n. sp. 



A suberect tree-like shrub; stem 1.5 dm thick, 7 m 

 high, mostly branched toward the top, crooked, subterete; 

 wood white or yellowish tinged, light in weight, soft, taste- 

 less, sweetly odorous especially in the branchlets; bark yel- 

 lowish gray, smooth on the surface, otherwise yellow except 

 the green hypodermis; main branches spreading, crookedly 

 rebranched, the lax subdrooping twigs with ascending glab- 

 rous tips. Leaves unifoliate, opposite, profuse along the 

 branchlets, coriaceous, ascending, glabrous, paler green be- 

 neath, curing equally brown on its sides, only shallowly 

 conduplicate, smooth and shining as well as puncticulate 

 on both surfaces, the average blades 1 dm long by 4.5 cm 

 wide across the middle or above it, frequently much smaller, 

 obovate or obovately elongated, entire, the margins subin- 

 volute in the dry state, obtusely or broadly rounded at the 

 apex, the young ones mucronate, the old ones usually emar- 

 ginate, base broadly cuneate; midrib ridged beneath; lat- 



