JUKY 19, 1913] New Anonaceai 17 1 5 



bracts; calyx segments 3, ovate, united at the base, spreading, 

 hairy on both side, subequal, 5 mm. across, the outer 3 

 petals ovately lanceolate or oblong, nearly 1.5 cm. long by 

 5 mm. wide below the middle, densely pubescent on both 

 sides, erect; the inner 3 thicker in texture, ovately oblong, 

 1 cm. long by 5 mm. wide toward the base, the ventral 

 basal portion glabrate and well directed over the stamens 

 and pistils, otherwise tomentose; receptacle faintly strigose; 

 anthers many, subsessile, forming the greater mass of the 

 hemisphere, 1.5 mm. long, much broadened toward the apex, 

 the blackish connective expanded at the apex, the pollen 

 sacs straw brown on the dorsal side and nearly extending 

 to the base; pistils 3, style densely hairy, thick, bearing a 

 depressed glabrous stigma. 



Type specimen number 11318, A. D. E. E{lmer, To 

 daya (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 



Discovered in rich humus covered soil of damp forests 

 on the south side of the Sibulan river at 4000 feet altitude. 

 "Poogan" is its Bagobo name. 



Meiogyne lucida Elm. n. sp. 



A small and erect tree; stem 16 cm. thick, terete, 8 m. 

 high, chiefly branched toward the top; wood moderately soft, 

 yellowish tinged except the outer whitish portion, odorless 

 and without taste; bark grayish and brown mottled, smooth, 

 isabellinus except the surface; main branches long, divaricate, 

 repeatedly branched; the lax twigs somewhat drooping, am- 

 ple, terete, gray but brown when young, apical portion stri- 

 gosely nairy but soon glabrous. Leaves copious, alternating, 

 scattered along the branchlets, horizontal or descending, 

 chartaceous, lucid on both sides even in the dry brownish 

 state, nearly flat, the abruptly acute to acuminate apex re- 

 curved, base broadly rounded, entire margins obscurely wavy 

 toward the apex, the larger lamina 12 cm. long by 5 cm. 

 wide below the middle, ovately oblong or subelliptic, fre- 

 quently much smaller; midvein impressed along the upper 

 surface, rather bold beneath, when old entirely glabrous* lat- 

 eral nerves 5 to 7 on each side, the basal one not prom- 

 inent, strongly ascending and curved, likewise bold beneath 



