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except the bluntly pointed stigma. Fruit globose or 

 obovoidly ellipsoid, glabrous, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, few 

 to severally clustered upon stipes nearly as long. 



Type specimen number 17775, A. D. E. Elmer, Los 

 Baflos (Mt. Maquiling), Province of Laguna, Luzon, June- 

 July, 1917. Found scattered in dry or well drained forested 

 slopes at middle elevation. 



Distinguished from Papualthia loheri Merr. by its shorter 

 leaves, blunter calyx teeth, longer petals and fruiting 

 receptacle not at all enlarged; from Papualthia flava Merr. 

 by its thinner narrower leaves and by the much larger 

 united calyx. Dedicated to C. F. Baker, dean of the College 

 of Agriculture at Los Baflos. 



Desmos elegans Elm. n. sp. 



A little tree or shrub-like. Stem about 10 cm. thick, 

 main branches numerously and laxly rebranched; twigs 

 very slender, ferruginous hairy. Leaves numerous, al- 

 ternate, scattered, oblongish or lanceolate, entire, acute 

 to subacuminate, submembranous and subglabrous, obtuse 

 or obtusely rounded at the base, upon 3 mm. long scurfy 

 brown and sparsely hairy petioles, the larger ones 8 cm. 

 long by 3 cm. wide, the apical ones usually smaller, 

 curing dull brown but paler beneath; midrib prominent 

 beneath, brown and somewhat strigose, with 5 to 7 

 ascending relatively obscure pairs of nerves; the minute 

 apical buds or very young leaves hirsute. Infrutescence 

 toward the top but lateral, upon 1.25 cm. long stout 

 terete brown sparsely hairy stalks which are somewhat 

 thickened toward the distal end and minutely few bracteate 

 at or near the base; persistent calyx bluntly toothed; 

 torus 5 mm. across, yellowish brown tomentose: carpels 

 3 to 5-clustered or even solitary, peanut-shaped, up to 

 2.5 cm. long, cylindric to obovoid or ovoid, bluntly pointed, 

 constricted into a short stipe, green, curing brown, 

 appressed strigose when young. 



Type specimen number 17649, A. I). E. Elmer, Los 

 Baflos (Mt. Maquiling), Province of Laguna, Luzon, June- 

 July. J917. Discovered in dense forests at 1500 feet 

 altitude. 



Papvalthia lanceolata (Vid.) Merr. but fruits with a short 

 stout point, smaller, upon shorter stalks, cylindric or only 

 with occasional constrictions. 



