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Leaflets or Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



ament bases; style also fleshy and glabrous, terete, 5 mm 

 long, terminated by a slightly enlarged more or less rugose 

 and pulverulent stigma; filament rim 3 mm high; each of 

 the 12 parts flattened and covered with a woolly indument, 

 strongly curved at the base and widest at the top; the free 

 portion of the filament 7 mm long, subterete, white, glab- 

 rous, arising 0.5 mm below the tip of the woolly basal seg- 

 ments, pointed at the apex; anthers pale yellow, 1.75 mm 

 long, elliptic, widely lobed at the base, basifixed, laterally 

 dehiscent, obtusely rounded at the apex. Fruits pendant 

 from the green stalks, yellowish green when young, turning 

 citrinus after falling and upon the ground, flatly globose 

 or button shaped, 1.5 to 2 cm across; the 6 stony seeds 

 brown and imbedded in the meat. 



Type specimen number 13448, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ust, 1912. 



Subscandent and sprawling shrubs among the woods of 

 the sand gravelly banks of the Catangan creek at 1000 feet 

 above' the sea. "Dagyangas" is the Manobo name. 



Only critically distinguished from Harrisonia perforata 

 (Blco.) Merr. by the larger more numerous and pubescent 

 leaflets and by the 6-seeded larger fruits. v 



SOLANACEAE 



Solatium anisophyllum Elm. n. sp. 



An ascending or suberect shrub; stem 1 dm thick, 3 

 m high, subterete, branched from the middle; wood odor- 

 less and tasteless, dingy or yellowish white, moderately soft; 

 bark smooth, yellowish gray, with a green hypodermis; 

 main branches spreading, crooked or curved, not numerous- 

 ly rebranched; twigs short or long and slender, frequently 

 descending and gracefully curved toward the tips, glab- 

 rous, greenish, densely covered with yellowish white len- 

 ticels or excrescences. Leaves scattered, opposite, copious, 

 the pairs very unequal in size and shape, membranous, 

 mostly horizontal, glabrous, curing deep brown on both 

 sides, paler green beneath when fresh, sublucid above, entire; 



