1360 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 70 
Collected in a humus covered fertile soil of thick woods 
at 250 feet altitude. 
Timonius pulgarensis Elm. n. sp. 
A rigidly interlaced shrub; branchlets erect, glabrous except 
the fulvus pubescent young tips, otherwise grayish brown, 
made rough by the numerous leaf scars 1.5 cm. apart. Leaves 
opposite, 1 to 3 pairs crowded toward the ends of the twigs, 
ascending or suberect, rigid, flat except the short sharply acu- 
minate apex, base obtuse, entire margins subinvolute in the dry 
state, when young floccosely cinereous on the upper surface but 
which soon becomes glabrous and shining, beneath fulvus stri- 
gose or appressed pubescent, mostly obovately oblong, the larger 
blades 12.5 em. long, 5 em. wide across the middle or a trifle 
above this; midvein very prominent beneath toward the base, 
densely fulvus hairy; lateral pairs 7, subparallel, very oblique, 
their tips slenderly curved, reticulations very fine and minute; 
petiole extremely short and thick, less than 5 mm. long, flat- 
tened on the upper side; stipules also rigid, subpersistent, ob- 
long, 1.5 em. long, sharply acuminate, more or less united below 
the mitldle or toward the base. Fruits axillary, solitary; pedicel 
1.5 em. long, fulvus hairy, strict, ascending, obovoidly oblong, 
1 to 1.5 em. long, 5 to 8 mm. thick above the middle, rugose 
not ridged or only obscurely so, silky or fulvus pubescent, 
subtended by a pair of finely setaceous and similarly pubescent 
1.25 em. long bracts, 9 to 11-seeded; persistent calyx 1.25 cm. 
long, brown and softly pubescent, the basal portion united into 
a tube, the 5 segments linearly setaceous. 
Type specimen 13201, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 
This very distinct species was discovered in the low and 
dense chaparral growth on the rocky summit at 4250 feet of 
the mountain whose name it bears. 
: Timonius palawanensis Elm. n. sp. 
° A striet slender shrub-like tree; stem 7.5 cm. thick, 7 m. 
high, terete, branched from the middle; wood moderately hard, 
~ sappy white, a trifle bitter, odorless; bark smooth, grayish white; 
