Oct. 22, 1919] 



New Woody Plants from Mt. Maquiling 



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pressed or triangular, the ultimate branchlets short and 

 flattened at the point of branching and brownish pul- 

 verulent; fruiting pedicels short, thick, somewhat scurfy 

 brown; flowers rigid, erect, red except the yellowish 

 white petals and stamens. Fruits much compressed, 1 

 cm. across, obscurely 6-rugose or more often very irreg- 

 ular, giabrous or minutely scurfy, subtended by 5-lobed 

 persistent calyx segments, containing from 1 to 5 tri- 

 gonous shining brown seeds. 



Type specimen number 17776, A . D. E. Elmer, Los 

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

 July, 1917. Scattered in the forests at middle elevations 

 or toward the boiling mud spring. 



Larger or terminal leaflets different in shape and 

 serrature from Tjeea negrosensis Elm. Quite distinct from 

 Leea man ill en Ms Ualp. of the parang formation. 



