Oct. 22, 1919] 



New Woody Plants from Mt. Maquiling 



3103 



with about 10 conspicuous nerves on each side. Flowers 

 usually few clustered from the lower leaf axils; pedicels 

 coriaceous, 2 to 3 cm. long-, smooth and yellowish brown; 

 calyx broadly cup shaped, 7.5 mm. wide, 5 mm. long, 

 glabrous, with 6 equal segments arranged in 2 series, 

 the outer 3 thick and obtuse at the apex, the inner or 

 alternating 3 thinner and broadly rounded at the apex, 

 all united at the base and brownish on the outer ex- 

 posed side; petals nearly twice as long as the calyx, 

 imbricate, obovately oblong, obtuse or obtusely rounded 

 at the apex, narrowed toward the base or subclawed, 

 4 mm. wide, coriaceous, glabrous; stamens 10 to 12, 

 erect, crowded, upon 2 to 3 mm- long coriaceous fila- 

 ments; anther at least as long as the filament, large, 

 compressed, ovately elongated, auriculately bilobed at 

 the basifixed base, the connective thick and extended 

 into a minute point, laterally dehiscent, 1 mm. wide; 

 ovary glabrous, ovoidly globose; style thick, up to 1 cm. 

 long, terminated by a minute capitate stigma. Fruit 

 subtended by the persistent calyx, ellipsoid or ovately 

 so, 3.5 cm. long by 2 cm. thick, rounded at both ends, 

 green and scurfy brown at the apex, solitary or in pairs 

 from the lower leaf axils or from the axils of their 

 scars. 



Type specimen number 17189, A. D. E. Elmer, Los 

 Bafios (Mt Maquiling), Province of Laguna, Luzon, June- 

 July. 1917. Number 2872. C. F. Baker, from this same 

 summit region is the identical snecies in flower. 



Different from Palaqirium latifolium Blco. in leaf and 

 fruit characters. 



VITACEAE 



Leea pauciflora Elm. n. sp. 



A shrub 3 to 5 m. high, with few main branches. 

 Twigs crooked, rather thin, more or less lenticelled, gla- 

 brous. Leaves alternate, the petiole and rachis slender, 

 the former with a blunt interaxillary stipule and deeply 

 grooved along the uper side except at the end, gla- 

 brous, coriaceous, imparipinnate, 2 dm. long, 5 to 7-fo 

 liolate, ovately oblong, the broadly obtuse or rounded 

 base entire, otherwise coarsely serrate, acuminate to can 

 date, upon 5 to 8 mm. long petiolules except the ter- 

 minal one which is 2 cm. in length, opposite, well scattered, 

 equal in size except the basal or smaller ones, 3 by 9 

 cm., slightly paler beneath, drying blackish brown, the 

 midrib with 5 to 7 pairs of obscure lateral nerv 



