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deeper green surface, the acute to acuminate apex abruptly 

 recurved, base broadly obtuse, narrowly oblong, the entire 

 margins subinvolute in the dry state, curing deep brown be- 

 neath and nearly black on the upper side, the normal lamina 



12 cm. long by 3.5 cm, wide at the middle; midrib raised 

 and edged beneath, deeply grooved on the upper side espe- 

 cially toward the base; lateral nerves very obscure : 10 to 



13 on each si<le and slightly more evident from above, retic- 

 ulations obsolete; petiole 5 to 8 mm. long, black, glabrous, 

 broadly caniculate along the upper side. Young infrutescence 

 axillary or lateral; peduncle mostly solitary, terete, green, 

 glabrous, at the base surrounded by scars of already fallen 

 bracts, thickened toward the distal end, strict and stout, 3 

 to 5 cm. long; receptacle flattened, 7 mm. across; old ovary 

 densely fulvus pubescent, fusiform, 5 mm. long, bearing a 

 very short glabrous style and an expanded dull brown stigma; 

 young fruits subcompressed, straight along the ventral edge 

 or side, pointed, thick stipitate at the base, soon wearing 

 glabrous. 



Type specimen number 13830, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 tember, 1912. Here also is referred my number 13535 from 

 the same region. 



Inhabiting the moss and vine covered upper side of large 

 inclining tree trunks and in the axils of lowermost limbs 

 twenty feet above the humid ground, in dense forestg border- 

 ing lake Donao at 5000 feet altitude. "Lanotan" is the 

 Manobo name. Number 13535 is an erect shrub and was 

 gathered upon a dry wooded riged at 3000 feet altitude 

 and apparently it is the same species. 



Qoniothalamus mindanaensis Elm. n. sp. 



A small but rather slender tree or shrub-like; stem 

 terete, crooked, 10 cm. thick, 5 m. high or higher, chiefly 

 branched toward the top; wood quite soft, whitish, without 

 odor or taste; bark testaceus except the smooth yellowish 

 gray surface; main branches slender, somewhat drooping, 

 only sparingly rebranched, the young tips ferrugineously pu- 

 bescent but soon becoming glabrous or remaining puberulent. Lea- 



