July 19, 1913] New Anonackae 1/19 



free, ovate, spreading in anthesis, 4 mm. long, the margin 

 and dorsal aide densely covered with ferrugiiieus hairs, gla- 

 brous on the upper side; sepals 6, in 2 very unequal series, 

 pale white or yellowish tinged and densely streaked and 

 spotted with deep incariiatus, turning yellow when old, soft 

 and deciduous; the outer 3 spreading, very rugosely twisted 

 or folded, glabrous on the ventral and strigosely pubescent 

 on the dorsal side, 2 cm. long and 1.25 cm. wide across 

 the middle or above it, base only one third as wide, apex 

 apiculate; the inner 3 overarching the pale yellow stamens 

 and pistils, slenderly stipitate below the midde, the upper 

 portion abruptly expanded; the expanded portion cuneate 

 at base, acutely pointed at apex, subauriculately lobed, appress- 

 ed on the back even so along the stipe, woolly hairy on 

 the upper or ventral side; receptacle 3 mm. across, circular, 

 hairy especially around the edge, much flattened; stamens 

 many, early falling, 1 mm. long, mushroom -like, short or 

 broad cuneate, the connective expanded into an oblique rela- 

 tively large plate; the lateral anther cells yellowish white; 

 pistils as many as stamens, columnar, 1 mm. long, hairy around 

 the base, terminated by a glabrous reddish brown obscurely 

 lobulate sessile minute stigma. 



Type specimen number 13781, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 tember, 1912. 



Discovered in humus covered well drained soil of a dense- 

 ly forested ridge of Griwantanan at about 2500 feet altitude. 

 "Babayocan" is the Manobo name. 



Mitrephora aversa Elm. n. sp. 



A very slender tree; stem 6 cm. thick and 8 m. high, 

 terete and nearly straight, branched all along the middle; 

 wood odorless and tasteless, yellowish tinged, moderately 

 soft; bark smooth, gray on the surface, otherwise isabellinus; 

 main branches divaricate; the twigs relatively short, lax, 

 descending or horizontally spreading, glabrous or only the 

 young tip? slightly hairy, numerous. Leaves copious, simi- 

 larly disposed, thinly coriaceous, alternate, entire, in the dry 

 specimens dull brown on both sides, recurved toward the acu- 



