1508 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 75 
blunt, somewhat constricted toward the base, short woolly on the 
inside. 
Type specimen 7269, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Leyte, January, 
1906. 
This species has not the congested appearance of C. hallieri 
Merr. and its mature fruits are at least different. Erroneously 
cited by Mr. Merrill as 7268. 
Connarus carnosus Elm. n. sp. 
A lofty and powerful tree climber; stems 7.5 em. thick, 
terete, bendable, twining, looping, more or less branched all 
along; wood soft, porous, reddish except the whitish outer portion, 
without odor or taste; bark brown, lenticelled, reddish brown on 
the inner side; twigs rigid and short, forming dense bushes, gray- 
ish with lighter colored lenticels. Leaves alternatingly scattered, 
glabrous, 3 to 7-foliate, the uppermost ones usually smaller; 
petiole 3 to 5 em. long, glabrous, dull reddish brown when dry, 
usually recurved from the much thickened base; leaflets curing 
brown, thinly or rigidly coriaceous, folded on the upper shining 
green surface, paler green beneath, the abruptly acuminate point 
recurved, base broadly obtuse or rounded, the callous entire margin 
minutely involute, the basal ones smaller and ovate or ovately 
elliptic, the larger ones 1 dm. long, 4 em. across the middle and 
oblongish elliptic, imparipinnate, opposite or subopposite; petio- 
lule thick, at least 5 mm. long, the terminal one upon a 1.5 em. 
long rachis extension; midrib shining, prominent beneath, minutely 
grooved along the upper side; lateral nerves much less prominent, 
3 to 5 pairs, ascending, slightly curved, quite plain on the upper 
surface, tips anastomosing, reticulations fine and numerous, equal- 
ly visible from both surfaces. Inflorescence paniculate, 1.5 to 
3 dm. long, ascendingly spreading, terminal or from the upper- 
most leaf axils, all the stalks green and covered with a fine ferru- 
gineus pubescence; branchlets ascending, chiefly from the middle, 
ascending, relatively short, subtended by similarly pubescent 
bracts, the larger ones very shortly rebranched; flowers slightly 
fragrant and very showy; calyx pinkish, 3 mm. long, 5-segmented 
united at the base, somewhat fleshy, puberulent on the back and 
ciliate along the edges, glabrous on the inner side, the teeth rather 
gradually tapering from base to apex; petals 5, free, 2.5 mm. 
