1482 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 75 
5 mm. long, 0.75 mm. wide, pellucid glandular, only sparsely 
strigose; petals pink at first especially toward the base, ultimate- 
ly white, 1.25 em. long, 7.5 mm. across the middle, rotately spread- 
ing, thin, densely glandular, ciliate along the edges mainly, ob- 
tuse at apex, broader so at base, veiny; stamens numerous, pink 
and ultimately white, glabrous; the filaments subequal and fili- 
form, eurvingly interlaced, nearly equalling the petals; anthers 
0.5 mm. across, broader than long, ends emarginate especially 
the basal one, attached to the back; ovary imbedded; style slight- 
ly curved, nearly 1.5 em. long, glabrous, thick, terete, bearing a 
minute stigma. 
Type specimen 12057, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, March, 1910. 
Discovered in red turf soil or in gravelly soil of wooded banks 
along the Pauala river above 250 feet altitude. 
Allied to D. blancoi Vid. based upon Cuming 801, yet very 
different in many characters but most noteably the large flowers. 
LOGANIACEAE. 
Norrisia philippinensis Elm. n. sp. 
A burly appearing tree; stem 6 dm. thick, 10 m. high, with 
widely spreading main branches arising from the middle; wood 
moderately hard, yellowish white, without odor or taste; bark 
comparatively thin, grayish white, finely checked longitudinally 
and scaling in small plates, brown on the branches; young twigs 
minutely pubescent, terete, the older ones densely covered with 
yellowish gray lenticels. Leaves numerous, opposite, ascending, 
coriaceous, shallowly folded upon the upper deeper green and 
lueid surface, leaving ring-like scars after falling, oblongish or 
fusiform in shape or broadly lanceolate, glabrous, curing very un- 
equally brown on the 2 sides, acute at apex, bluntly so at base, 
entire, 6 cm. long, 2.25 em. wide at the middle; midvein dull 
reddish brown beneath, caniculate along the upper side; the lateral 
5 pairs comparatively obscure, ascendingly curved, reticulations 
fine and nearly obsolete; petiole grooved, glabrous, 5 mm. long. 
Inflorescence erect, terminal, green and when dry with a dull 
. yellow puberulence, 5 em. long, paniculately branched from the 
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