8 cm. across the middle, broadly oblong; midvein prominent 
beneath, with 15 pinnate lateral pairs, the latter much ascending 
toward their ends, cross bars and reticulations faint; petiole 2.5 
em. long, furrowed along the upper side, otherwise subterete 
and subglabrous. Flowers axillary or in small lateral groups; 
pedicels very slender, finally nearly 2 cm. long, usually minutely 
bracteate toward the base and subtended by them at the base, 
very sparsely strigose, arising from fulvus pubescent very short 
and usually branched peduncles; calyx united toward the base, 
cup shaped or rotately spreading, glabrous or only finely puber- 
ulent especially along the margins, 5-segmented, obtuse, the 
lobes unequal in size, the upper or inner ones larger and with 
more membranous sides, 3 mm. long; corolla 5-segmented, spread- 
ing, white, glabrous, truncately oblong, 6 mm. long, only one 
half as wide, apex broadly rounded, entire or notched or even 
lobulate, broad toward the united base, membranous; stamens 
glabrous, reddish brown when dry, numerous, all inserted upon 
the base of the inner petals; filaments subterete, 2 mm. long, 
usually curved; anthers a trifle shorter, somewhat compressed, 
0.66 mm. wide, truncate at base, distinctly 2-lobed at apex, 
attached on the back below the middle and usually bent at that 
point; ovary globose, 1.5 mm. in diameter, lanose, subtended 
by 3 subrotund and similarly hairy bracts, 3-celled; ovules num- 
erous in each cell, densely clustered in roundish masses and 
attached to the axial placenta. 
Type specimen 12535, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Found in red compact soil on shrubby creek banks at 500 
feet altitude. 
` DICHAPETALACEAE. 
Dichapetalum submaritimum Elm. n. sp. 
Shrub; stem 5 cm. thick, 3 m. high, branched from below the 
middle; branches tough, quite rigid, rebranched and spreading; 
wood rather hard, sappy or dingy yellowish white, without odor 
or taste; bark brown, more or less warted or lenticelled; twigs when 
young cinereous or yellowish gray lanose. Leaves pale green, de- 
