Junk 21, 1913] A Few New Polygalackab 1673 



XANTHOPHYLLUM Roxb. 

 Xanthophyllum paiawanensis Elm. n. sp. 



Erect shrab or becoming tree-like; stem 10 crn. thick, 

 3 to 5 m. high, terete, branched from below the middle; 

 wood moderately soft, whitish, odorless, tasteless or only 

 slightly bitter; bark smoothish, green beneath the yellowish 

 gray epidermis; main branches ascending, rather long, repeat- 

 edly branched, greenish gray except the yellowish excres- 

 cences; twigs horizontal or descending, dull green, finely pu- 

 berulent, drying reddish brown, leaves suboppositely scattered 

 along the branchlets or alternate, pendant, siibchartaceous, 

 pleasing green above, yellowish so beneath, glabrous, shal lowly 

 curved upon the upper surface, diverse in size, entire, drying 

 , greenish brown, ovately elongated or oblongish, base broadly 

 rounded and auriculately cordate, 8 to 13 cm, wide below 

 the middle, 2 to 3 dm. long, gradually tapering to the 

 acute point; midvein stout on both sides especially beneath, 

 glabrous; the 9 to 12 main nerves slightly ascending and 

 curved, their ends forming a submarginal line 5 ram. from 

 the edge, secondary ones intervening and extending from the 

 midvein to one half the distance to the margin and coarsely 

 reticulated with the main nerves, reticulations conspicuous 

 beneath and numerous; petiole 3.5 mm. thick in the dull 

 brown wrinkled dry state, subglabrous, 1 to 1.75 cm. long, 

 usually with a rigid pair of ovately elongated bud bract in 

 its axils. Inflorescence terminal, few paniculately branched 

 from near the base, 1.5 dm. long, melleus puberulent or 

 velutinons, the short peduncle subtended by a series of un- 

 equal deciduous puberulent 5 to 8 mm. long elongated bracts; 

 flowers alternatingly scattered along the spike-like and ascend- 

 ingly curved and very angular branchlets; pedicels 2 mm. long, 

 one half as thick, puberulent, subtended by a caducous bract 

 which is longer than the pedicel itself, leaving large scars after* 

 falling; calyx glabrous, broadly cup shaped, imbricate, the 5 

 segments united at their thick bases, ovately rotund, 5 mm. 

 long, the outer ones considerably thicker; corolla bud strongly 

 imbricate, conically elongated, flesh red, also glabrous, 

 coriaceous; the 5 petals spreading in anthesis, 1.5 cm. long, 

 subequal, the sides usually rolled upon the ventral surface, 



