1516 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 75 
exposed side, 3 mm. long, united toward the base, broadly elliptic, 
sides thin and hyaline along the margin, very deeply spoon shap- 
ed, obtuse at apex; petals 4, orbicular, 3 mm. across, very thin and 
white, strigosely hairy on the back and edges, concave on the 
ventral side, free; each at the base provided with a thicker reddish 
brown circular and much flattened appendage which is strigose 
on its ventral side and relatively long white ciliate around the 
edges; stamens 5, centrally located; filaments 1.5 mm. long, 
fleshy, thick at the base but soon terminating into the fine point 
which in anthesis is outwardly curved; anther 0.75 long, broadly 
oblong, bilobed at the base and attached in the sinus. 
Type specimen 12085, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, March, 
1910. 
Here and there scattered in turf soil along the Pauala river 
at 500 feet. Named after Mr. J. F. Quadras, the original dis- 
coverer. 
Critically related to my H. ovoidea and to H. subfalcata 
Merr. It is identieal with number 214 J. F. Quadras, collected 
in 1901 at Surigao, Mindanao. 
Casearia densifolia Elm. n. sp. 
A suberect tree-like shrub; stem 7.5 cm. thiek, 5 m. high, 
few branched from the middle; wood heavy, sappy white, with- 
out odor or taste; bark brownish gray, more or less lenticelled or 
checked; branches unbranched, bearing numerous leaves toward 
the end, obseurely zigzag from leaf to leaf, glabrous except the 
young glaucus portion, terete, slender. Leaves alternatingly 
scattered, spreading, curved or subfaleate toward the acute or 
acuminate apex, slightly inequilateral toward the acute base, 
entire, from 5 to 15 mm. apart, drying unequally brown on the 
2 sides, the terminal ones usually smaller, 2.5 em. wide below the 
middle, 7.5 em. long, glabrous, broadly lanceolate or ovately 
oblong; midrib prominent below; lateral nerves 5 to 7 pairs, much 
ascending, tips reticulated, occasionally with few hairs in their 
axils, cross bars and reticulations very fine and evident from the 
nether side only; petiole 5 to 8 mm. long, glaucus, channelled more 
or less. Inflorescence in axillary dense clusters; flowers odorless, 
upon short and thick sessile tubercles clothed with minutely 
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