March 27, 1915] 



Two IIuxnuKn Twbwty Six New Species— II 



2869 



numerous, the entire margins Bubin volute at least when dry, 

 gradually tapering to the sharp acuminate point, base obtuse 

 or subcuneate, quite variable in size, broadly lanceolate to 

 ovately lanceolate or occasionally elliptic oblong, the aver- 

 age blades 7.5 cm long by 2.5 cm wide across tbe mid- 

 dle or a trifle below it, frequently larger and occasionally 

 smaller; midvein flattened but more conspicuous beneath; 

 the lateral nerves and reticulations more evident on the 

 upper side; petiole 1 cm long or longer, compressed, thick, 

 glabrous. Inflorescence terminal, few and oppositely branch- 

 ed or occasionally verticellate, all the stalks grayish green, 

 obscurely angidar, thick and rigid, the young portion very 

 finely puberulent; flowers sessilely clustered toward the ends 

 of the ultimate branchlets, with a distinct orange odor; 

 calyx subpersistent, erect, strongly imbricate, nearly free, 

 canescent on the outer exposed sides, densely ciliate along 

 the margins, deeply concave on the glabrate ventral side, 

 ovately oblong or merely oblong, bluntly obtuse at the apex, 

 4.5 mm long, one half of that in width, the basal ones 

 much shorter, yellowish green; corolla deep golden yellow, 

 the constricted basal portion falsely united, glabrous, rigid, 

 erect except the ultimate recurved lobes, fleshy, 4-5 mm 

 long, 2.25 mm across the middle of the 4 subelliptic 

 lobes; stamens also 4, alternating with the corolla lobes and 

 inserted near the throat; anthers broadly oblong, 1 mm long, 

 emarginate at the apex, bilobed at the base, dorsifixed; filament 

 glabrous, 0.5 mm long, much tapering from the base to the 

 apex; pistil 3 mm long, terete, much elongated, the basal one 

 third glabrous, the middle one third densely cinereous, the 

 apical one third glabrous and bluntly 2-pointed; fruits like- 

 wise green when fresh, turning yellowish gray when dry, 

 ovoid and somewhat flattened, 2 cm long, nearly 1 cm thick 

 at the base, containing a pair of thick greenish cotylpdons. 



Type specimen number 11990, A- D. E. Elmer, Davao, 

 District of Davao, Mindanao, October, 1909. 



In saline soil or in shallow brackish water along the 

 coast in the town of] Davao. "Mabaran" is the native name. 



This number was distributed as Avicennia alba Blm. but 

 its fruit is distinct from number 400 of Mr. Bolster's collection 

 from the Surigao coast and which I take to be Blume's species. 



