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NOVEMBER 29, 1911] New MELASTOMATACEAE 1197 
compressed toward the base, glabrous; anther 1.5 mm. long 
including the pair of 0.5 mm. long basal tails, curved, sagittate, 
the upper ventral side pale yellow, otherwise purplish; style terete, 
4 mm. long, with a small stigma. 
Type specimen 13140, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. 
Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 
This Memecylon with sweetly scented wood is not uncommon 
in sand gravelly soil among other shrubs and small trees along 
a creek at 500 feet altitude, between the forks of the Iwahig 
river. This and Diplycosia sessile Elm. were seen only along this 
water course winding its way through a rather level tract of woods. 
Distinct from M. sessilifolium Merr. 
Memecylon palawanense Elm. n. sp. 
A small crooked tree; stem gnarly, 1.5 dm. thick, 7 m. high, 
ascending and extending over the river bed, branched toward 
the top only; wood dull brown especially toward the center, quite 
hard andi heavy, odorless and tasteless; bark relatively very thin, 
brown except the gray usually checked surface; main branches 
not long but crookedly spreading, numerously rebranched; twigs 
slender, somewhat drooping, lax, the subterete glabrous terminal 
portion green. Leaves oppositely scattered along the branchlets, 
glabrous, curing greenish, ascending, entire, recurved toward the 
obtuse apex, somewhat folded on the upper deeper green surface, 
much paler or yellowish green beneath, the larger blades 5 em. 
long and one half as wide across the middle, base acute, subel- 
liptie or lanceolately oblong or fusiform; midvein very prominent 
beneath, grooved along the upper side, lateral nerves absent; 
petiole glabrous, 5 mm. long; axillary hairs brown, short and 
few. Inflorescence from the old leaf axils along the branchlets, 
in short eymose or nearly umbellate clusters, 7.5 mm. long; pe- 
dunele glabrous, very short, usually bracteate; secondary stalks 
or pedicels as long or shorter, also subtended by bracteoles; calyx 
turbinate in flower, urceolate in the fruiting state, yellowish green, 
glabrous, 2.25 mm. long, shallowly 4-dentate; petals purplish 
blue, also 4, sharply pointed in the bud state, ovately oblong, 2 
mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, truncate at the base, the sides below 
the middle with few sinuate folds or hastate lobes; fertile stamens 
8; filaments eurved, bluish white, glabrous, 2 mm. long, subterete, 
