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and shallowly impressed above, tips interarchingly united far 

 below the edge of the leaf, cross bars and reticulations 

 minute; petiole 5 mm. long or longer, flat and shallowly 

 grooved along the upper side, hairy when young but gla- 

 brous when old. Flowers young, solitary or in pairs, from 

 the leaf axils or in the axils of their scars, slightly descend- 

 ing; pedicel short, relatively thick, olivaceously hairy, provided 

 with similarly hairy oblongish to rotund 3 to 4 mm, long 

 loosely imbricating bracts the basal ones of which are nar- 

 rower and shorter; calyx toward 8 mm. long by 2 mm. 

 less in width at the base, the basal one third united, ovate- 

 ly acuminate, the apex blunt, the free portion ascending, 

 margins usually curved upon the dorsal side, with the same 

 colored hairs on the back and velutinous on the inner side; 

 petals 6, very unequal in size, leathery, adnate, lanceolate 

 from the base, velutinous on both sides, 1.5 cm. long and 

 one third as wide at the base, free, gradually tapering to 

 the acuminate and usually twisted or falcate tips, the inner 

 3 petals much smaller in the old flower and glabrous on 

 the dorsal ventral side; receptacle small, flattend, subglabrous; 

 stamens not very numerous, imbricate, 1.5 mm, long, cune- 

 ate, the terminal portion of the connective large and ob- 

 lique, glabrous, the much lighter pairs of anther cells unequal 

 in length and dorso-Iaterally attached; pistil 2 mm, hng, 

 hairy along the angular ovary portion, bearing a stipitate 

 rather large stigma. 



Type specimen number 13984, A. D. E, Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ober, 1912. 



Found along the upper edge of a steep forested slope 

 in rather loose but well drained soil at 1250 feet altitude. 



Our flowers are distinct from number 1738 collected by 

 Cuming on the island of Leyte. The flowers are the same 

 as on M. phUippinensis Elm, but there are foliage differences. 



MITREPHORA Blm. 



Mitrephora viridifolia Elm. n. sp. 



A small sized tree; stem 7 dm. thick, terete and straight, 

 12 m, high, branched from the middle; wood nearly odorless. 



