March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Species— II 2841 



ovoid, terminated by 4 persistent minnte calyx or perianth 

 segments, 1.25 cm long, 1 cm wide below the middle, yel- 

 lowish when mature though eventually turning red, berry - 

 like, 4-celled, apparently 4 -seeded. 



Type specimen number 13883, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ember, 1912. 



Only one plant of this little upright undershrub was 

 found in a humus covered rather dry soil of deep woods 

 along a ravine of the Catagan creek at 3000 feet altitude. 

 "Dahingyoyon" in Manobo. 



Resembling Phaleria cumingii Vil. yet it may prove to be 

 a species of Rubiaceae. 



TILIACEAE 



Qrewia pyriformis Elm. n. sp. 



Small or medium sized tree; trunk 3 dm thick, sub- 

 terete and suberect, 8 m high, branched from the middle; 

 wood soft, maple white, odorless and without taste; bark 

 smooth and mottled, brownish white otherwise; main branch- 

 es rather long and widely spreading, freely rebranched; 

 twigs lax and subpendant, glabrous, the ultimate green por- 

 tion turning dull brown upon drying, terete. Leaves copi- 

 ous, alternatingly spreading along the branchlets, glabrous, 

 when dry brown on both sides, chartaceous, horizontal or 

 descending, curvingly folded upon the upper darker green 

 surface, entire or obscurely dentate to crenate toward the 

 sharply pointed acuminate apex, base broadly rounded, the 

 average lamina 13 cm long by 5 cm wide across the mid- 

 dle or below it, narrowly elliptic to ovately elliptic or ob- 

 longish; petiole 1.5 cm long or the lower old ones 2 cm 

 in length, smooth, terete, thickened toward the distal end, 

 green but dark reddish brown when dry, persistent; veins 

 3 arising from the base, pale or yellowish green when 

 fresh, brown when dry, quite prominent beneath, plane 

 above, the middle one extending straight into the apex, the 

 lateral pair terminating above the middle, hairy pockets in 

 their axils at the base, the midvein with 2 to 3 ascending 



