1708 Leaflets of Philippine Botasy [Vol. V, Art. 92 



flat or folded oq the upper darker green surface, subchar- 

 ' taceous, exceedingly variable in size, oblong, the normal ones 

 15 cm. long, 6 to 7 cm. wide at the middle; midvein gla- 

 brous and brown, prominent beneath, flat on the upper 

 side; lateral pairs 7 to 9, oblique, tips obscurely united, equally 

 visible from both sides, reticulations coarse and relatively con- 

 spicuous from both sides; petiole 1 cm. long or less, stout, 

 reddish brown and glabrous, flattened and shallowly grooved 

 along the upper side, always glabrous. Flowers arising from 

 recurved dwarfed flattened branchlets below the foliage, pen- 

 dant; pedicels 1 cm. long, strict, cinereous or subglabrous, 

 subtended by blunt similarly pubescent bracts; calyx pale green, 

 star shaped, widely spreading, the 3 segments only slightly 

 united at the base; sepals nearly 7.5 mm. long by 5 mm. wide 

 across the base, thick and rigid, glabrous on the upper side below 

 the middle and obscurely papillose, otherwise densely strigose, 

 the margins toward the sharply acute apex revolute in the 

 dry state; corolla ochraleucus, flat with obtusely rounded 

 incurved tips, very thick; outer 3 nearly equal, ovate, with 

 a sort of a basal constriction which closes in over the 

 stamens, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 1.25 cm. wide below the mid- 

 dle, glabrate or about the basal portion very finely pubescent; 

 the upper 3 lobes somewhat shorter and narrower, widest 

 across the middle, gradually constricted toward the base 

 which is connivent at the top, on the lower side extended 

 into thick 4 mm. long incurved teeth; anthers 2 mm, long, 

 yellow, the connective side smooth and peltately expanded at the 

 apex, the anther sacs along the opposite side of the connective. 



Type specimen number 13007, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Collected in clay or red soil with a gravelly subsoil upon 

 wooded banks of the Iwahig river at 500 feet altitude. Ded- 

 icated to Vidal y Soler. 



It is nearest to VidaVs species or A. cumingianus than 

 to any other of Philippine AHabotrys. 



DEPRANANTHUS Maing. 

 Deprananthus apoensis Elm. n. sp. 



Very slender trees; trunk terete, 1.5 dm. thick, toward 

 10 m. high, branched toward the top only; branches quite 



