June 2, 1913] Phimi-pink Gvimxop.^js 1631 



move green tcMvnrd the b.i>e: p^^dicels green, greeni-ih gi;<y 

 in tiie dry state, pubernlent. up to 5 mm. long, free or 

 when in clusters arising from a short common stalk, hecnming 

 easily detached, suhglabrous, subtended by rather thick ajid 

 pubescent bracts; periantli tubular, 7.5 mm. long, g!;il)roiis 

 except the inner surface toward the base, 8 mm. tliick; 

 iobes 5, erect, triangulatly oblong, obtuse at apex, 2 mm. 

 long; etamens 10, inserteil a trifle below tlie throat, in *2 

 rows, the upper row opposite the perianth lobes, the lower 

 row alternating with them: scales obsolete; filaments hyaline, 

 0.75 mni. long; anthers as long and broadly ol)l(Mig, also 

 whitish, em irgiti^te at b >th ends; ovary short ellipsoid, upon 

 a thick silky hiiry stalk: style glabrous, sb(»rt, l)earing a 

 subroseus fluted stigiuatie cap. Capsule also pendant, 12.5 

 ram. long, aurautiacus, obsurely 4-creaBed, obovoid. in the 

 dry state nearly 1.5 era. long, 1.25 cm. wide across the 

 trancately rounded apex, glabrous, upon a 3 mn». long 

 pedicel which is subtended by the persistent calyx vestige, 

 2-celled, 2-seeded; seeds ovoid, flattened on the ventral side, 

 smooth, pointed at apex, upon a caruncled stipe, blackish 

 brown, 1 cm. long, creased along the back. 



Type specimen numbers 13742 and 14195, A. J). K. 

 Elmer, C.ib:idbaran (Mt, Urdaneta). Province of Agiisan. Min- 

 danao, September and Octol)er respectively, 1012. 



Discovered in wet rather compact soil on a moss covered 

 wind swept forested ridge at 5750 feet altitude. Rather 

 common as an undershrub throughout the forests in the 

 higher elevation. "xMangod" or "Macohm" is its Manobo 

 name. 



Qyrlnopsis citrinaecarpa Elm. n. sp. 



Suberect tree; sten) 2 dm. thick. H m. high, branched 

 from below the mid He: wood soft but tough, white, rather light, 

 odorless and without taste; bark dull gray and mottled, 

 sraoothish, dingy white except the epidermis; branches hori- 

 zontal or descending, crookedly spreading, tough and flex- 

 ible, terete, th'^ young portions olivaceous tomeiit' .- . L- v,'s 

 similarly spre:iding, co:-iaceous, oblong or the larger ....-^ 

 (•bovatelv so. obtu.«e or subcuneate at the base, apex more 



