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flowers clustered in the center, appearing nearly black, as 

 long as the male flowers, glabrous, also linear, bearing at 

 the apex an abruptly tipped appendage or stigma. 



Type specimen number 14024, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ober, 1912. 



This shrub-like tree inhabited wet loose earth on ledges 

 bordering densely shaded stream banks at about 1250 feet 

 altitude. Also called "Lanotan" by the natives or Manobos. 

 Number 10982 from mount Apo was distributed as G. 

 philippinensis Merr. and from leaf oharacter it is the same as 

 the present new species. They both differ quite materially 

 from the leaf character of MerrilVs type number. Further- 

 more, the fruits of 10982 is not the same as those on the 

 type of G. magnificus Elm., the gnarly woody tubercles on 

 my G. mindanaensis are characteristic. 



MEIOQYNE Miq. 

 Meiogyne philippinensis Elm. n. sp. 



A strict erect tree; stem 8 m. high, 2 dm. thick, bran- 

 ched from below the middle; wood hard, yellowish white, 

 odorless and tasteless; bark smoothish or more or less 

 Uenticelled, brown and gray mottled; branchlets divaricate, 

 rather long, laxly rebranched beyond the middle; twigs 

 somewhat drooping, the j'oung tips finely covered with oli- 

 vaceus hairs. Leaves subraembranous, alternatingly scattered, 

 simihirly spreading, shining green above, when young pu- 

 bescent beneath, drying dull grny on both sides, apex acu- 

 minate, base broadly obtuse or usually rounded, the margins 

 entire, oblong or subovately oblong, the average blades 1 dm. 

 long and 4 cm. wide at the middle or below it, frequently 

 much larger or smaller; midvein dull and olivaceus putescent 

 beneath, the groove on the upper side becoming smooth, 

 rather conspicuous; lateral nerves of 7 pairs, ascendingly 

 curved, also conspicuous from beneath, tips anastomosing; 

 petiole 5 to 7.5 mm. long, shallowly caniculate, covered with 

 fine olivaceus hairs. Flowers dull yellow, pendulous from 

 the leaf axils, usually solitary, odorless; peduncle 5 mm. 

 long or less, similarly hairy, with a few broad alternating 



