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in the le if axils, reddish tinged except the inner floral or- 

 gans; staminate flowers subglobose and 2.5 mm in diameter, 

 clustered toward the end of the ultimate branchlets, upon 2 

 to 3 mm long pedicels, becoming easily separated; pedicel 

 glabrous, pale brown when dry, snbterete, usually subtended 

 by short acute fleshy bracts; perianth 5-parted, united below 

 the middle, arching over the stamens, ultimately widely 

 spreading; segments 2 mm long, elliptic, very thin and retic- 

 ulate, obtuse at the apex and usually terminated by a mi- 

 nute point arising just below the edge or the outer bracts 

 rather, prominently pointed; stamens as many, opposite the 

 perianth segments; filaments almost 2 mm long in anthesis, 

 inflexed in the bud state, band-like, hyaline, glabrous; an- 

 thers 1.5 mm long, lobed below and attached at the middle 

 apex notched and not as wide as the base, laterally dehis- 

 cent; pistillate flowers not observed. 



Type specimen numbers 13856 and 13898, A. D. E. 

 Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Min- 

 danao, September, 1912. 



The former number was discovered in the very humid 

 steep incline of Cawilanan peak at 4500 feet altitude and was 

 named "Nonay" by the Manobos. The second number cited 

 was collected in wet rocky ground of the wooded bank of the 

 Catangan creek at 3000 feet. It is a much coarser plant 

 though no doubt the same species. 



The author is not certain as to the genus. 



VERBENACEAE 



Avicennia mindanaense Elm. n. sp. 



Tree-like shrub; stem 3 to 5 m high, 1 dm thick, 

 freely rebranched, the glabrous ultimate ones numerous and 

 lax, forming dense masses; twigs relatively short, nodulose 

 at the point of branching; bark very smooth, dull aBhy 

 gray; wood pale white, heavy, hard, burly, with a turnip- 

 like odor. Leaves easily becoming detached, coriaceous, 

 slightly folded upon the upper surface, ashy green beneath 

 and yellowish gray in the dry state, lucid and dull brown 

 or blackish on the upper side when dry, opposite, rather 



