March 27, 1915] Two Honored Twenty Six New Spkciks— II 2843 



veins with secondary ones on the outer side only and 

 whose tips are usually united to form a submarginal line 

 3 mm from the edge, reticulations few and obscure; petiole 

 smooth and glabrous, 1 cm long, quite broad and calcu- 

 late along the upper side; buds elongated, pointed, yellow- 

 ish gray, sparsely strigo^e. Flowers not seen. Infrutescence 

 terminal or from the uppermost leaf axils; stalks 1 to 4 

 cm long, glabrous bright green, if branched very shortly 

 so; fruits usually few clustered toward the ends, upon 3 to 

 5 mm long pedicels, yellowish green, ultimately flesh Ted, 

 barely 1.5 cm long, obovoidly globose especially after being 

 dried, quit^ pointed toward the base, the circular stigma 

 more or less raised. 



Type specimen number 10999, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

 (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, June, 1909. 



Gathered in dry somewhat stony soil of woods skirting 

 the ridge of the Baracatan creek ravine and fronting the 

 upper cogon limits at 1500 feet altitude. "Isog" is the 

 Bagobo vernacular name. 



[t has a different infrntescence and its leaves are more 

 elongated than in Celtis philippinensis Blco. 



URTICACEAE 



Debregeasia luteocarpa Elm. n. sp. 



Ascending shrub; stem 1 dm thick, subterete, 5 m high, 

 branched from below the middle; wood wet and very soft, 

 without odor or taste, sappy white throughout; bark dark 

 or dull brown, tough, with lenticels or excrescences, other- 

 wise also sappy white; main branches ascending and spread- 

 ing, freely rebranched or few branched only, the ultimate 

 ones slender and lax, soft hoary tomentose, the lateral twigs 

 relatively short. Leaves numerous, alternatingly clustered 

 especially toward the ends of the branchlets, horizontally 

 spreading, the gradually acuminate apex recurved, light green 

 and sparsely strigose above, dull brown when dry and more 

 or less roughened by the raised interstices of the lamina, 

 grayish white beneath even in the dry state, cinereously 

 pub?scent, interstices more or less sunken beneath, exceedingly 



