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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



acute apices, pubescent below the middle on the exterior, 

 puberulent on the same side toward the apex; stamens 10, 

 inserted upon the basal inner portion of the perianth, 

 much exerted in anthesis; filaments 1.5 mm long, filiform, 

 glabrous; anthers oval, basifixed, with an obscure point at 

 the apex, emarginate at the base and eventually becoming 

 lobed, 0.33 mm across, laterally dehiscent, the empty cells 

 persistent and wing-like, spreading; ovary sessile, of 2 con- 

 tiguous carpels, ovoid, 0.75 mm long, densely hairy; the 

 2 glabrous styles very short and recurved, bearing small 

 terminal stigmas; capsules 3 mm long, terete, 1 mm thick, 

 a trifle thicker at the base, yellowish gray pubescent, sub- 

 tended by the persistent perianth and bearing the equally 

 persistent more or less elongated erect or only slightly curv- 

 ed or twisted styles, dehiscing from the base toward the apex, 

 the inner plane side glabrous and open along the median line, 

 the sides rigidly cartilaginous; seeds several or more in each 

 carpel, flat, dark brown, glabrous, elongated bean shaped, 

 1 mm long, 0.33 mm wide, with a somewhat oblique and 

 unequal membranous pair of wings which are brown and 0.5 

 mm long. 



Type specimen number 14157, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ober, 1912. 



Collected on a rocky forested ravine near the summit 

 ridge a little beyond Cawilanan peak at 5000 feet elevation. 

 "Bognag" in Manobo. 



Our leaves are smaller, whiter and more glandular be- 

 neath than in Spiraeopsia celebica {Elm.) Miq. Both the 

 inflorescence as well as the infrutescence are covered with 

 lighter colored hairs, while the capsules are slenderer and 

 more tapering above the middle to the pointed apex. 



SIMARUBACEAE 

 Harrisonia citrinaecarpa Elm. n. sp. 



Subscandent and sprawling; stem terete, 5 cm thick, 

 branched toward the top; wood soft, with a large pith, 

 slightly reddish tinged; bark gray or dirty brown and scaling 



