Maren 22, 1912] Four New  DrPTEROCARPACEAE 1473 
Discovered in a dry stony wooded flat at 250 feet altitude. 
Rare! 
Vatica blancoana Elm. n. sp. 
A small slender tree or shrub-like; stem 2 dm. thiek, 8 m. 
high, branched from the middle or toward the top only; wood 
moderately hard, bitter, odorless, dingy or yellowish white; bark 
of the same color except the smoothish gray surface, rather easily 
separating from the wood; branches few and freely rebranched, 
relatively short. Leaves subchartaceous, alternatingly scattered, 
flat, horizontal or descending, slightly paler green beneath, curing 
brown, glabrous, entire, the bluntly or acute to acuminate apex 
somewhat reeurved, base obtuse, oblong, the larger blades 15 
em. long, one third as wide across the middle; petiole subterete, 
stout, alao glabrous, 1 to 1.5 em. long; midvein very bold beneath, 
smooth and brown in the dry state; lateral nerves about 7 on a 
side, ascending, tips strongly curved but scarcely united, also 
prominent, reticulations very fine and equally visible from both 
sides. Inflorescence mostly terminal or from the uppermost 
leaf axils, suberect or laterally spreading, paniculately branched 
from the base, 1 dm. long and nearly as wide; main stalks flexible, 
sparsely pulverulent, alternatingly rebranched, reddish brown 
when fresh, the ultimate ones divaricate and subdichotemous; 
pedicels grayish puberulent, strict, less than 3 mm. long; flowers 
arranged in all directions, sweetly fragrant; calyx green, cam- 
panulate or cup shaped, 2 mm. long and nearly as thick, united 
toward the base, very densely grayish green puberulent, usually 
latericius gland dotted on the outside, adnate, the 5 segments 
sharply acute, straight even in anthesis; corolla in bud yellow, 
1.25 em. long, 4 mm. thick, tubular, strongly imbricate and 
twisted to the left especially toward the blunt apex, similarly 
cinereous puberulent on the outer exposed sides, 1.5 cm. long, 
4 mm. wide, narrowly oblong or oblanceolately ligulate, apex 
roundly obtuse, in anthesis strongly reflexed or spreading and 
usually twisted, eremeus; stamens 15, composed of an alternat- 
ing single with a double series, inserted upon the basal portion 
of the calyx surrounding the ovary; filaments short, flattened, 
expanded at the base, glabrous, that of the outer double series 
only one half as long; anther yellow, flattened, oblongish, 0.75 
