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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



Type specimen number 14088, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ober, 1912. 



Gathered in the humid lake Danao forested basin at 4750 

 feet altitude. The native or Manobo name is "Sangnanan." 

 Dedicated to E. D. Merrill, botanist in the Bureau of Sci- 

 ence and associate professor of botany in the University of 

 the Philippines. 



To be classified nearest to Adinandra loheri Merr. 



Adinandra robinsonii Elm. n. sp. 



A middle sized tree; stem 10 m high, 2.5 dm thick, 

 branched from below the middle and forming an elongated 

 cr>wn; branches comparatively short, divaricate, laxly re- 

 branched, the ascending twigs dull olivaceus strigose; wood 

 whitish, soft and without odor or taste; bark brown, smooth- 

 ish. Leaves copious, subchartaceous, alternatingly scattered 

 along the twigs, slightly ascending, the acuminate tips re- 

 curved, base acute or obtuse, narrowly oblong or oblan-" 

 ceolately oblong, entire toward the base, otherwise with fine 

 crenate teeth, edges subinvolute in the dry state at least, 

 7.5 cm long and 2 cm wide or smaller, drying grayish 

 green, beneath strigosely pubescent in the younger state; 

 midrib prominent and strigose beneath, smooth and very 

 shallowly grooved along the upper side; the lateral nerves 

 oblique, strict, very obscure, reticulations obsolete or nearly 

 so; petiole 3 mm long, strigose, channeled along the up- 

 per side; bud bract densely olivaceus strigose. Flowers up- 

 on pendulously recurved pedicels, either solitary or in pairs 

 from the leaf axils; pedicel slender, 2.5 cm long, sparsely yel- 

 lowish strigose, slightly enlarged toward the distal end, green- 

 ish, terete; calyx thick, closely imbricate, the 5 lobes 

 united at the very base, the outer exposed portion hairy, 

 glabrous on the deeply concave side, shortly ciliate and 

 minutely apiculate, ovate, the outer basal ones shorter, the 

 inner ones gradually becoming petaloid, veiny; petals also 

 imbricate, 1 cm long erect, olivaceus hairy on the outer 

 exposed side, otherwise glabrous, 5 mm wide, also veiny, 

 truncately obtuse at the apex; stamens erect, in a rim and in- 



