June ">, HH3] Phiuppink Poi.yosma 1631 



Type specimen number 13187, A. D. E. Klmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 



Quite rare in the cha parrel formation on the rocky 

 i^ummit region of mount Pulgar at 4200 feet altitude. 



Polyosma cyanea Elm. n. sp. 



A subereet shrub-like tree; stem 2 dm. thick, 8 m. high, 

 crooked, subterete, mainly branched toward the top; wood 

 soft, the very thin outer portion white, otherwise isabeliinux, 

 heavy; bark thick, scaling in yellowish gray plates, the middle 

 portion isabellinus, the inner side whitish; limbs spreading 

 and laxy rebranched, the green twigs ascendingly curved, 

 soft puberulent especially the young portion. I^eaves scatter- 

 ed, opposite, subcoriaceous or chartaceous, very dark shining 

 green on the upper glabrous side, paler green beneath 

 even in the dry state, oblong, acute to acuminate at apex 

 and apiculately pointed, base obtuse or occasionally subro- 

 tund, the large blades 5.5 cm. wide by 15 cm. long, en- 

 tire or occasionally apiculate, minutely pubescent l)eneath; pe- 

 tiole soft dirty yellowish pubescent, 2 cm. long, slender, grooved 

 along the upper side, green; midvein prominent beneath, den-ely 

 hairy as well as along the sunken upper side, the 7 to 9 divaricate 

 lateral nerves also conspicuous and pubescent, coarsely ana.'^tomos- 

 ing, reticulations quite prominent on both sides. Spike 1 to 2 dm. 

 long, obscurely angular or striate, greenish pubescent, usually 

 subtended by small densely hairy bracts, fruit bearing from near 

 the base, slender; pedicels of the fruits ascending, relatively 

 stout, less than 5 mm long, densely pubescent, after falling 

 levving conspicuous white scars; fruits ascending, ovoidly 

 elongated, rugose and ovoidly acuminate in the dry state, 

 nearly 1.5 mm. long, one half as wide below the middle, 

 glabrous except the crown of small pubescent calyx teeth, 

 deep cyaneus when ripe, subtended by 3 sharply pointed 

 and pubescent bracts, the middle one of which is a tride 

 large. 



Type specimen number 13670, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 biran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Septem- 

 ber, 1912. 



Discovered in compact more or less stony and well drained 



