March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2839 



ingly rebranched, stout, when young densely yellowish gray 

 strigose, more or less roughened; flower pedicels averaging 

 2.5 cm long, usually recurved, densely tomentose; flower star 

 shaped, rigid, subpendulous, odorless; hud globose, 1 cm in 

 diameter; calyx valvate, separating from the apex, 1.25 cm 

 long, the basal one third rather broad and united; the 5 

 segments unequal in width, triangularly elongated, acute at 

 the apex, very thick and rigid, entire margins slightly folded 

 upon the ventral surface, tomentose on the outside, the in- 

 ner side densely covered with long yellowish hairs, persis- 

 tent, ' rotately spreading; petals filamentous, about 40, gla- 

 brous, btsal portion united in a fleshy rim and inserted 

 around the base of the ovary, immediately surrounding the 

 stamens, in the early state curved inwardly, the distal one 

 half or more ultimately becoming separated and tapering to 

 a slender point, averaging 5 mm long, blackish brown in 

 the dry state; stamens numerous, erect, inserted upon a 

 densely ciliate torus; hairs 2 mm long, yellowish; filaments 

 filiform, 3.5 mm long or longer, glabrous, flesh color, the 

 outer ones shorter at least in the early stages, attached to 

 the anther from the distal end; anther in the young state 

 folded down along the filament, ultimately spreading, each 

 one half 2 mm long, subcompressed, fluted on the outer 

 side, becoming divided from the base toward the distal end, 

 glabrous, 0.75 mm wide, ends truncate; ovary conically 

 rounded, brown hairy; style slender, 1 to 1.5 cm long, 

 pubescent except the upper portion; stigma short clavate 

 or subcapitate. Fruit pedicel, 2 cm long, 5 mm thick, 

 terete, glabrate, dark green, more or less lenticelled, 1.25 

 cm across the torus; fruit irregularly globose, pendulous, 

 of all sizes, green but yellowish brown scale covered and 

 roughened, the larger ones 6 cm in diameter; carpels thick, 

 dehiscing from the apex toward the base in 5 parts. 



Type specimen number 13478, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ust, 1912. 



Discovered upon a steep and densely forested slope along 

 the southwestern side of Duros peak or along the trail to- 

 ward the summit of that peak at 3000 feet altitude. "Mag- 

 sudod" in Manobo. 



