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covered acute bracts, otherwise paniculately branched; branch- 

 lets subtended by oblanceolate 5 mm. long bracts where 

 margins in the dry state is subinvolute and usually some- 

 what hairy along the edges and upper surface; flowers in 

 subumbellate terminal clusters or only few clustered or sol- 

 itary; pedicel 6 mm. long at most, subtended by bracteoles 

 which soon drop ofl; calyx thick, glabrous, 2.25. mm. long, 

 ellipsoid; the 4 obtuse teeth finely ciliate margined; corolla 

 squarrose, cremeus, glabrous, 3 mm. long, the basal two 

 thirds united, the outer apical portion with few glands; 

 teeth 4, obtusely rounded, the margins well folded over the 

 inner side and even down into the tube; stamens 2, inserted 

 upon the mid<lle of the corolla tube and alternating with 

 the segments; filament glabrous much flattened, 1.5 mm. 

 long; anther basifixed, oval, 0.75 mm. across; ovary 2.5 

 mm. long, ovoidly elongated, glabrous, terminated by a sessile 

 rugose stigma. 



Type specimen number 12290, A. D. E. Elmer, Maga- 

 Uanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Sibuyan, April, 

 1910. 



Collected in gravelly soil along the edge of woods of the 

 Pauala river at about 1000 feet altitude. Just recently I 

 collected it again in the province of Agusan, Mindanao. 



Related to L. phUippinensis Merr. yet quite distinct from 

 that species. 



Linociera vidailti Elm. n. sp. 



Erect tree; stem 2 dm. thick by 7 m. high; main branches 

 not numerous, arising from the middle, divaricately spreading, 

 ultimately numerously rebranched and forming an elongated 

 crown; twigs lax, horizontal or the tips ascendingly curved, 

 light gray and flattened at the point of leaf attachment; wood 

 bitterish to taste and odor, burly, moderately hard, reddish 

 toward the center; bark thick, yellowish gray, more or less 

 roughened with blunt lenticels, reddish brown beneath the 

 epidermi.s. Leaves opposite and scattered along the branch- 

 lets, coriaceous, flat except the sharply acute to acuminate 

 recurved apex, glabrous, drying somewhat unequally brown on 

 both sides, dark green above, much lighter so beneath, base 



