)ct. 22, 1919] 



New Woody Plants from Mt. Maquiling 



3101 



cm. thick, with few but long and subpendant branches 

 toward the top, slenderly rebranched; twigs terete, thick- 

 ened and roughened at the leaf bearing ends, glabrous; 

 wood soft, odorless and without taste, yellowish tinged; 

 bark grayish brown, smooth or minutely checked, reddish 

 beneath the epidermis. Leaves im pari pinnate, 2 dm. long 

 or shorter, with 5 to 9 leaflets; the leaflets glabrous, 

 subcoriaceous, much paler green beneath, the smaller or 

 basal ones ovate, the larger or upper ones subelliptic 

 to oblong, blades 4 by 10 cm., opposite or subopposite, 

 abruptly and sharply acute to acuminate, rounded at the 

 subsessile base, the terminal one stalked; the petiole 

 proper up to 5 cm. long, more or less thickened at the 

 base and with short thick interaxillary subpersistent 

 bracts; midrib quite evident but the 5 to 7 ascendingly 

 curved lateral pairs of nerves faint, reticulations also 

 evident. Panicle terminal or from the upper leaf axils, 

 10 cm. long, divaricately rebranched; pedicels glabrous, 

 2.5 mm. long, subtended by acuminate bracts less than 

 1 mm. in length; buds obovoid; calyx minute, the 5 sharp 

 sparsely ciliate points united below the middle and forming 

 a disk; petals 5 or 6, likewise glabrous, reflexed in anthesis. 

 ligulate, 3 by 1 mm.; stamens about 10, erect, free but 

 inserted upon a short rim-iike disk, about as long as 

 the petals, more or less subulate; anther 0.75 mm. long. 

 basi fixed, obiong, blunt at the apex; ovary epigynous. 

 ovoidly globose, sessile, glabrous; style subterminal, very 

 short and thick, somewhat crooked, terminated by a swollen 

 stigmatic head. Fruits dark green, aragineous when ripe, 

 juicy, sour, obovoidly oblong or subcylindric, upon slender 

 5 mm. long pedicels, subtended by the minute calyx, 

 when dry somewhat flattened; solitary seed compressed, 

 encased by a bony endocarp. 



Type specimen number 13467. A. D. E. Elmer, Ca- 

 badbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agnsan, Mindanao, 

 August, 1912; also Elnier 17913. in fruit from mount 

 Maquiling. Forestry Bureau 26770 collected by O. M«- 

 besa on this same mountain is in Sower. 



This genus is here for the first time reported from 

 the Philippines. 



Lepisanthes perviridis Elm. n. sp. 



A small crooked tree, with rather coarse and few- 

 branches. Leaves alternate. 5 to 8 dm. long, evenly 

 pinnae: racbis of leaves rigid, snbtnrete, obscurely striate 

 when dry, sordidly puberuient when young, ultimately 

 glabrous, greenish; petiole very rigid and stout, gin- 



