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DECEMBER 23, 1911] EupHorpracuarn ÜoLLECTED ON Parawan Istanp 1277 
in the dry state, prominent beneath, very plain on the upper 
side; lateral nerves about 7 pairs, ascendingly curved, similar in 
color, tips strongly arching, reticulations and cross bars relatively 
obscure; petiole varying from 1 to 3 em. long, strict, shining 
brown when dry; bud bracts acuminate, caducous, hairy when 
young. Inflorescence solitary or usually in small clusters from 
the branches and even the stem, with a strong molasses-like 
odor; spikes pendant, pale green, subglabrous; flowers irregularly 
scattered in small fascicles from below the middle toward the 
apex, citrinus; pedicels pale yellow, 1 mm. long, glabrate; peri- 
anth 4, thick, 1.5 mm. long, elliptic, tips imeurved, tapering 
toward the base, united into a short stalk; stamens 5, surround- 
ing a sterile ovary disk, glabrous, the filaments very short; anther 
of 2 pill-like sacs, 0.75 mm. wide, 0.33 mm. long, basifixed, 
emarginate at apex, auriculately lobed at the base, laterally 
dehiscent; fruiting spike glabrous, 1 to 2 dm. long, brick red, 
in hanging fascicles; drupes subatropurpureus, sour, soft, 7.5 
mm. thick, with 2 juicy deep pink seeds, glabrous, short ellip- 
soid or ovoidly so, usually somewhat pendant, glabrous and 
lucid when mature. 
Type specimens 12864 for flowers and 13160 for fruit, A. 
D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March and 
May respectively, 1911. 
This beautiful species was discovered in fertile moist humus 
covered soil of dense forests at 750 feet along the trail to Nap- 
san leading to the west coast of Palawan. Quite common here 
but nowhere else seen. 
Baccaurea terminalifolia Elm. n. sp. 
Erect shrub, 3 m. high or higher; stem 1 dm. thick, sub- 
terete, mainly branched from the middle; wood moderately hard 
and heavy, dull sappy white, odorless and tasteless; batk gray- 
ish brown, finely checked; branchlets slender, laxly rebranched, 
the twigs suberect and in subwhorls, roughened by the old leaf 
scars, the young portions glabrous. Leaves radially and horizon- 
tally spreading, flat, chartaceous, much paler green beneath, 
crowded toward the ends of the branchlets, submembranous, 
drying dull green, glabrous, entire margins minutely involute 
in the dry state, apex obtuse or abruptly acute, subcuneate at 
