1342 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Agr. 70 
NAUCLEA Forst. 
Nauclea purpurascens Korth. 
Field-note for 13006:—A bushy tree; stem 2 feet thick, 
subterete, soon divided into few ascending main branches, 25 
feet high or higher; wood hard, heavy, burly, dirty yellowish 
white or brown, odorless and tasteless; bark scaling, yellowish 
gray, isabellinus except the epidermis; branchlets numerous, 
rather lax, the latericius angular apical portion suberect; leaves 
horizontal or the older ones descending, nearly flat but margins 
irregularly wavy, much richer green on the upper side; heads 
1 to 3, terminal, erect or nearly so; calyx cremeus and soon 
withering, thereby turning brown; the exerted style and capitate 
stigmas sulphureus; receptacle yellow; the flowers posses a slight 
disagreeable odor. 
Represented by numbers 13006 and 12983, Elmer, Puerto 
Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
The first number cited grew in stony soil along the Iwahig 
river bank at 500 feet; the second number was collected in well 
drained soil of a steep wooded slope at 2000 feet altitude. 
OLDENLANDIA Linn. 
Oldenlandia paniculata Linn. 
Field-note:—Stem perennial or only biennial, flexible, 
somewhat creeping at the base, branched and taking root at 
the joints, dark green, angled; leaves horizontally spreading, 
much lighter green beneath, flat, coriaceous; pedicels and calyx 
green, the other parts of the odorless flowers white; capsule 
somewhat angularly flattened. 
Represented by number 13034, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
In fine dry gravelly creek beds of dense woods at 50 feet 
altitude. Apparently introduced but not common. 
OPHIORRHIZA Linn. 
Ophiorrhiza pulgarensis Elm. n. sp. 
Somewhat succulent herbs; stem one or more from the 
