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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor: IV, Arr. 70 
Loss cgi re 
Type specimen 12763, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. 
Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
It was rather commonly observed in gravelly soil along the 
wooded banks of the Iwahig river at 500 feet. 
Another addition to a critical bunch, most closely to P. 
similis Elm. but leaves in our present species thicker, less pointed 
at both ends and the more numerous nerves bolder and plainly 
interarching. The arrangement of the flowers on the inflores- 
cence is also quite different. 
RANDIA Linn. 
Randia uncaria Elm. 
Field-note:—A lofty tree climber; stem terete, looping, 3 
inches thick; wood soft, yellowish, a trifle bitter, odorless, the 
outside of the sapwood yellowish brown and juicy; bark relatively 
thick, brown on the stem, roughened with blunt lenticels, yellow- 
ish white on the inner side, yellowish brown; the main branches 
stem-like, long, looping, the free portions pendant; secondary 
branches divaricate, comparatively short, with a pair of stout 
retrorse spines along the upper side and about 1 inch from the 
point of branching, frequently with a single spine on the same 
side 2 inches further up, stems and twigs spineless; leaves sub- 
coriaceous, horizontal or descending, flat, deep green above, 
paler beneath; inflorescence terminal, suberect, pale green even 
the corolla tube, sweetly fragrant, style and stigma creamy white, 
ovary apex creamy yellow; corolla segments rotately spreading, 
white. 
Represented by number 12661, Elmer, Brooks Point (Ad- 
dison Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 
In fine gravelly soil of forested flats at sea level. The 
Tagbanuas call it ‘‘Keri-keri.” 
Randia ebracteata Elm. n. sp. 
A rather small gnarly tree; trunk nearly 3 dm. thick, 10 m. 
high, terete, branched above the middle; main branches spread- 
| ing, forming a flattish erown, freely rebranched, the rather rigid 
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