March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2811 



out, with a pleasant odor, tasteless, light in specific gravity; 

 bark smooth and yellowish; main branches few and toward 

 the top spreading not numerously rebranched; twigs slen- 

 der, suberect, the green and glabrous terminal portion ob- 

 scurely angular. Leaves ascending, opposite, coriaceous, flat, 

 paler green beneath, glabrous, elliptically elongated, apex 

 rounded, in the mature ones broadly obtuse, curing unequally 

 brown on the 2 sides, entire, 2 to 2.5 dm long by 9 to 

 12 cm wide at the middle, often with much reduced leaflets, 

 very minutely black punctate beneath; petiole stoutly raised 

 beneath, brown when dry; lateral nerves 9 to 13 pairs, the 

 basal 2 to 3 pairs much less conspicuous from beneath • 

 divaricate, coarsely forked and reticulated toward their distal 

 ends, occasionally with secondary intervening ones, the retic- 

 ulations beneath rather coarse yet relatively conspicuous; 

 petiole including the petiolule 2 to 4 cm long, the longer 

 portion or the petiole proper subterete, green and glabrous, 

 the petiolule portion flattened and grooved along the upper 

 side, the jointed portion enlarged and deeper green in the fresh 

 state. Panicle lateral or axillary, usually single, in the bud 

 state 5 cm long; branchlets subtended by bracts, mainly 

 opposite, in the early state densely yellowish puberulent; 

 buds globose, clustered; pedicel 1 mm long or less, subgla- 

 brous, the bracts puberulent; calyx 1 mm long, cup shaped, 

 the basal one half united, terminated by 4 blunt teeth, 

 glabrous though somewhat punctate; corolla longer, alternat- 

 ing with the calyx segments. Fruiting panicle 3 times 

 larger than the inflorescence, branched from below the mid- 

 dle; pedicels 3 mm long, at the base surrounded by scale- 

 like bracts or bract vestiges, all the branches divaricate, 

 flexible, pale green; carpels much deeper green, some- 

 what verruculose, 4 mm long, obscurely flattened, apically 

 dehiscent, persistent; seeds solitary, 2 mm in diameter^ 

 subglobose, shining black, hanging for a[| considerable time 

 from the opened capsule before falling. 



Type specimen number 13897, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabadbaran 

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



Collected in wet rocky ground of densely wooded bank? 

 of the Catangan creek at about 3000 feet altitude. 



Its entirely glabrous leaves mark it as a good variety 



