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APRIL 20, 1912] Two Score or New PLANTS 1501 
Found in moist humus covered rich soil of a densely forested 
flat at 750 feet altitude near the Pauala river. “Paho” is the 
local Visayan name. 
Evidently most closely related to B. florida Sch. 
Semecarpus glauciphylla Elm. n. sp. 
An undershrub; stem 2.5 cm. thick, 3 m. high, branched 
from below the middle; branchlets few, quite rigid, spreading 
erookedly, the ultimate ones erect, the young portion very finely 
pulverulent, soon becoming glabrous; wood white on the outside, 
quite hard, without odor or taste; bark smooth, yellowish gray. 
Leaves ascending, alternatingly crowded toward the ends of the 
branchlets, quite rigid, flat or the sharply aeute or acuminate 
apex recurved, the entire margins wavy, base obtuse, oblong, 
glabrous, smooth and deep green above, glaucus or subglaucus 
green beneath, the 2 surfaces curing very unequally in color, 2 
to 3 dm. long, 6 to 9 cm. wide; midrib raised beneath, flat on the - 
upper leaf surface; lateral nerves about 17 pairs, divaricate, tips 
ascendingly eurved and usually united, glabrous, shining brown, 
reticulations relatively obscure; petiole very thick, 2.5 em. long, 
caniculate, ultimately glabrous. Inflorescence terminal, panic- 
ulate, subglabrous or yellowish puberulent, 5 to 8 cm. long; 
pedicels 3 mm. long, more or less clustered from the distal end 
of the branchlets, puberulent, subtended by minute bracts; calyx 
3 mm. high, a trifle wider across the 5 obtusely toothed top, the 
basal one-third much and abruptly constricted, finely canescent 
on the outside, rather leathery, the inner side glabrous and con- 
spicuously purplish brown streaked; corolla segments or petals 
3.5 mm. long, 1.75 mm. wide, glabrous, oblong, bluntly obtuse, 
similarly streaked or blistered; stamens alternating, also 5, gla- 
brous, inserted below the ovary disk; filaments strictly ascending, 
1 mm. long, compressed and tapering from base to apex; anther 
horseshoe shaped, less than 0.5 mm. across, attached at the broad 
sinus; ovary conically ovoid, short but densely yellowish hairy, 
subtended by a finely fringed disk; styles 3, divergent, 1 mm. 
long, olivaceus pubescent, bearing à much enlarged rugose or 
obscurely lobulate and recurved dark brown or nearly black 
stigma; ovule solitary, subpendant, lenticular; infrutescence near- 
ly twice as large, erect, the stalks shining and dark green; fruits 
