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Linociera urdanetensis Elm. n. gp. 



A rather small tree; stem 2.25 dm. thick, 8 m. high, 

 subterete, somewhat crooked, mainly branched above the 

 middle or toward the top; wood quite odorless and taste- 

 less, white and yellowish tinged in the center, moderately 

 hard; bark smoothish, yellowish gray, testaceus except the 

 epidermis; branches slender, divaricate, well scattering along 

 the branchlets, glabrous, descending or horizontally spread- 

 ing, coriaceous, lighter green beneath, shallowly folded 

 along the upper side, curing dull greenish brown, ovately 

 elliptic to elliptically oblong, the average lamina 1 dm. long 

 by 5.5 cm. wide, base obtuse or obtusely rounded, the same 

 at the apex except the blunt or abrupt point which is 

 emarginate at the point, the entire margins somewhat in- 

 volute in the dry state at least; petiole 1 cm. long, gla- 

 brous, 2 mm. thick, reddish brown when dry; midvein 

 conspicuously raised beneath, deeply grooved along the upper 

 side clear to the apical point, also dark brown: lateral ner- 

 ves about 6 pairs, relatively conspicuous beneath and groov- 

 ed along the upper side, ascendingly curved, tips faintly 

 anastomosing, reticulations obscure. Infrutescence ascending 

 or horizontal, axillary or lateral, 2 to V cm. long, only 

 sparingly short branched; the stalks thickened, solitary or 

 few clustered, glabrous but apparently in the flowering state 

 puberulent, nodulose or the branchlets articulate and subtended 

 by short acute br.icts; pedicels divaricate, thicker than the 

 stalks, 5 to 7 mm. long, persistent, terminated by the 4 

 short yet acutely pointed calyx remnants; nuts obovoidly 

 globose or as in the dry state obovoid, 1.5 cm. long, ] cm. 

 thick above the middle, dark green and with minute whitish 

 spots, 1-seeded; seed surrounded by a yellowish crust longi- 

 tudinally streaked on the exterior with atropurpurpeiis. 



Type specimen number 13835, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sep- 

 tember, 1912. 



Discovered in the rocky soil above the lagoon at 5250 

 feet elevation of humid forests on a sheltered depression. 

 "Cobol" is the Manobo name. 



A very close ally of the preceding species and our 

 flowers are as yet unknown. It is a high alpine plant, not 



