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between levidus and atro violaceus, early falling and leaving 

 conspicuous scars along the yellowish brown puberulent rachis; 

 slender pedicels glabrous, flower colored, divaricate, subtended 

 by small caducous similarly puberulent bracts; bud ovoid; 

 calyx 3.5 mm. long, the 3 segments more or less united 

 about the base, elliptic or ovately so, rounded at apex, veiny, 

 concavo-convex, glabrous or finely ciliate at least along 

 the margins; inner 2 sepals large, erect, 7.5 ram. long, 

 one or two mm. narrower, truncately narrowed toward the 

 narrow base, ovately rotund in outline, strongly and numerously 

 veined; the upper 2 petals 5 mm. long, imbricate, truncate 

 and occasionally lobulate or notched at tbe distal deep yellow 

 portion, hyaline below the middle, veins arising from the 

 bise, extending through the middle portion and widely spread- 

 ing in the terminal portion; the third petal 8 mm, long and 

 nearly 6 mm. wide across the top, abruptly constricted and 

 thickened below the middle, the upper one half subrotund 

 in outline, obscurely 3-lobulate, hyaline, delicately veiny, the 

 terminal membranous lobe very much ruffled and subentire; 

 the lateral lobes or petals very short or only very few mm. 

 long, oblong, usually attached on the basal exterior portion ■ 

 of the largest segments; stamens 8, in 4 pairs, attached to 

 the corolla segments a trifle below; filaments 6 mm. long, 

 glabrous, adnate, only the subhyaline terminal portion free; 

 anther 1 mm. long, oblong, short apiculate, basifixed; pistil 

 5 mm. long; style very much bent or curved, thick, glabrous, 

 at the basal portion bearing a membranous fold, 0.5 mm. 

 thick, pulverulent toward the flattened darker colored stigma. 

 Fruit rugosely compressed, oblique, 1.75 cm. long, 0.75 cm. 

 wide, its upper edge extended into a 3.5 cm, long by 1.5 

 cm. wide brown colored wing which is usually a trifle wider 

 just a little above the middle. 



Type specimen numbers 12774 in flower and 13238 in 

 fruit, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, 

 March and May respectively, 1911, 



Discovered this beautiful species in thickets of woods 

 along a steep and more or less stony red soil of the Iwaling 

 river at 750 feet altitude; the fruiting specimen was collected 

 upon seepage ledges of the same river at a higher alti- 

 tude. 



