1622 Leaflets of Philippiwb Botany [Vol. V, Art. 81 



Pygeum fragrans Elm. 



To me it does not seem referable to typical P. preslii 

 Merr., though most of the material under said covers may 

 be referable to our name. 



Pygeum latiphyllum Elm. n. sp. 



Slender tree; trank 10 m. high, 2 dm. thick, slender; 

 wood moderately soft, white, burly, odorless, tasteless; bark 

 rather thin, smooth, mottled with gray and brown; twigs 

 brown puberulent, ultimately glabrous, more or less lenticelled, 

 subterete, mainly at the top, horizontally spreading, compar- 

 atively short but freely rebranched. Leaves without basal 

 glands, horizontal or slightly rebranched, thinly coriaceous, 

 glabrous, conduplicate on the upper dull green surface, much 

 lighter green beneath, ovate or ovately elongated, the 

 average lamina 2 dm. long, 12 cm. wide below the middle, 

 the upper portion gradually tapering to the acute to acuminate 

 apex, ba=?e broadly rounded, entire, turning brown while 

 drying, alternatingly scattered along the branchlets; midvein 

 very stout and glabrous on both sides, the 6 to 8 ascend- 

 ing lateral nerves obscurely anastomosing at their ends, 

 reticulations also obscure on both sides; petiole 1.5 cm. 

 long, thick, ultimately glabrous, caniculate above, somewhat 

 wrinkled in the dry state; bud bract broad, ovately oblong, 

 7 mm. long, hairy on the exterior, truncate at apex, base 

 expanded. Bud inflorescence compressed, densely and imbri- 

 cately bracteate, yellowish brown tomentose; old inflorescence 

 or very young infrutescence spicate, usually solitary from 

 the leaf axils or more numerously clustered along leafless 

 branchlets, 5 to 8 cm. lf)ng or longer, fulvus puberulent or 

 pubescent in anthesis, flower bearing from near the base, 

 the basal portion thickened and subtended by deciduous 

 imbricated distinctly notched bracts which are silky pubescent 

 on the outer side only, ovately oblong and from 3 to 8 mm. 

 long; pedicels ascending, slender, 7.5 mm. long, similarly 

 puberulent, alternatingly scattered, terminated at the apex 

 by the persistent perianth rim; young fruits glabrous, ovoidly 

 ellipsoid, short pointed. 



