APRIL 20, 1912] Two Score or New PLANTS 1513 
Type specimen 12438, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Gathered in red soil packed between rocks on a forested 
ridge at 3000 feet altitude. ‘Mayofig’” is the Visayan name. 
Named after Mr. Guy H. Green, the other American on the 
island while I was there. 
Related to G. cochinchinensis or G. pentaphylla. 
FLACOURTIACEAE. 
Homalium gitingensis Elm. n. sp. 
Quite a large spreading tree; branchlets gray to brown, 
glabrous, usually covered with similarly colored minute lenticels. 
Leaves alternate, chartaceous, glabrous, entire, elliptieally oblong 
or oblongish, shining avellaneus on the upper side when dry, 
duller and fumosus beneath, the larger blades 15 em. long by 6.5 
em. wide across the middle or just below it, apex short and abrupt- 
ly acute, base broadly obtuse or rounded, margins entire, glabrous; 
midvein conspicuous from both sides, brown beneath especially 
toward the base; lateral pairs 7 to 9, equally visible from both 
sides, ascendingly curved, anastomosing, finely and strongly 
reticulate on both surfaces; petiole blackish brown in the dry 
state, stout, 1.5 em. long, glabrous, flattened and grooved along 
the upper side. Inflorescence suberect, axillary or terminal, 
5 to 8 em. long, usually 3-branched from the base, the middle or 
stouter spike occasionally short rebranched; peduncles and their 
branches densely sulphureus or cremeus lanose pubescent; flowers 
crowded along the ultimate branchlets, sessile or subsessile, soft 
in texture, the basal or outer organs yellowish villose; calyx 1 em. 
long, the basal 3 mm. united, turbinate, hard and densely hairy; 
the 6 lobes ascending, strigose on both sides, flat, lance shaped, 
7.5 mm. long by 2 mm. wide across the middle, acutely pointed 
at apex, midvein prominent and with some coarse lateral nerves; 
petals also 6, persistent, similarly strigose, acute at apex, flat, 
5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, subligulate, persistent, likewise with a 
conspicuous midvein and few lateral nerves, their sinuses provided 
with woolly glands; stamens about 25 or more in small groups 
opposite the petals and inserted upon their bases, erect; filaments 
