JrLT 19, 1813] New Anonaceab 1721 



Mitrephora eilipanthoides Elm. n. sp. 



A slender erect tree; stem 1 dm. thick, straight and 

 terete, 8 m. high, branched from below the middle; wood 

 soft, dingy white, odorless and tasteleps; bark relatively 

 thick, smooth, gray and brown mottled, yellowish brown 

 otherwise; main branches divaricate, laxly rebranched, the 

 twigs dark brown and rather tough, the ultimate ones very 

 slender and cinereously puberulent. Leaves mostly descending, 

 shallowly folded upon the upper glabrous surface, the sharp 

 and slenderly acuminate apex recurved, based broadly obtuse 

 or obtusely rounded, broadly lanceolate to narrowly oblong, 

 entire, alternate along the twigs only, paler green beneath, 

 drying deep brown on both sides, 3 by 10 cm. although 

 frequently much smaller; midrib prominent and depper brown 

 beneath, grooved along the upper side, in the early state 

 finely pubescent, becoming glabrous; lateral nerves 7, very 

 oblique, strongly curved, tips scarcly united, relatively, prom- 

 inent beneath; petiole 3 mm. long, puberulous or subgla- 

 brous. Fruits lateral, ellipsoidly globose, hard, nearly flavo- 

 virens in color, 1.25 cm. in diameter, sessile, solitary or 

 few clustered at the distal end of the thick 5 to 8 mm. 

 long peduncle, the peduncle with an enlarged puberulent 

 receptacle, finely creased along one side. 



Type specimen number 13987, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 b'lran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct- 

 ober, 1912. 



Discovered in rather dry loose humus covered ground 

 of a steep wooded ravine at 1600 feet altitude. 



OROPHEA BLM. 

 Orophea palawanensis Elm. n. sp. 



A small slender tree; stem 2 dm. thick, terete, 10 m. 

 high; main branches divaricate, slender, forming an elongated 

 crown from above the middle; twigs very slender, tough, 

 horizontally spreading, only the young tips olivac^us pu- 

 bescent; wood nearly sulphureus and turning blackish toward 

 center, soft, odorless sweetish; bark grayish white mottled. 



