Ji-(.Y 1^>, 1913] New Ason'ackak 1711 



cm, long glabrous pedicels which is slightly thickened toward 

 the distal end, inserted upon a 5 mm. long and numerously 

 bracteated peduncle; calyx thick, glal>rous, tlie basal united 

 portion low cup shaped, the 3 lobes 8 mm. wide and 

 nearly as high, roundly obtuse, spreading, persistent; petals 

 6, in 2 very unequal series, deciduous, glabrous; outer 

 petals 3 cm. long, lanceolate, almost 15 cm. wi(]e, base 

 somewhat narrowed and quite thick, slenderly acuminate, 

 margins rolled in upon the upper side; inner series 1.5 

 cm. long, very thick and rigid, ovately elliptic, acute, the 

 upper two thirds valvate and forming a triangular pyramid, 

 the inner basal portion striately folded; receptacle glabrous, 

 flat; anthers numerous, sessile, linear, 3.5 mm. long, 0.75 

 mm. wide, compressed, the connective terminated into a 

 subglobose dark brown stigma-like point; the pollen sacs 

 along the edges thin, yellowish, appearing as if septate pis-til 

 4.5 mm. long, the upper one half stipitate and usually 

 curved, linearly flattened otherwise, glabrous, stigmatic portion 

 rugosely forked. 



Type specimen number 12507, A. D. E. Elmer, Maga- 

 llanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Sibuyan, May, 

 1910. 



Discovered in moist atony soil of a forested ridge of 

 mount Giting-giting at 4500 feet elevation. 



With two or three other closely allied Philippine species 

 it has strong affinities with G. gigantevs Hook. My fruiting 

 specimen number 7419 is allied to and possibly the same 

 as the flowering specimen of Cuming 1746; our species here 

 described has entirely different flowers than those on Cuming^s. 



Coniothalamus epiphyticus Elm. n. sp. 



An epiphytic shrub; stems several, ascending or horizontal 

 and even drooping, slender, 2 m. long, 1.5 to 2 cm. thick 

 terete, quite rigid, sparingly rebranched; branchlets drooping, 

 their tips ascendingly curved, tough, covered with smooth 

 light gray bark, even the young terminal portion glabrous. 

 Leaves alternating, 1,25 cm. apart, somewhat arranged in dis- 

 tichous, rows, glabrous, rigidly coriaceous, descending or 

 drooping, very shallowly conduplicate on the upper lucid and 



