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low it, similar in texture, grayish and finer pubescent, ovate- 

 ly oblong, the margins toward the acute apex revolute in 

 the dry state at least, equal in size; the inner segments 

 submaculate, the basal one third clawed or stipitate, 7 mm. 

 long, 4 mm. wide across the middle running to a blunt 

 apex from the middle, the upper one half very thick and 

 cuahion-like on the upper surface, finely pubescent except 

 the ventral portion below the middle; stamens about 12, 

 circled about the basal portion of the pubescent receptacle; 

 anthers brown in the dry state, 1 to 2 mm. long, curved, 

 widened toward the sabtruncate or apiculate apex; pistils 

 several, 2 mm. long, clustered into an apical mass, densely 

 hairy except the thinner glabrous stigmatic portion; young 

 fruits elongated or linear, subterete, grayish hairy. 



Type specimen numbers 13018 and 13099, A. D. E. Elmer, 

 Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 



In moist soil of humid forests from 750 to 1500 

 feet altitude. 



As to our Philippine species it is nearest to 0. macu- 

 lata Merr. 



Orophea unguiculata Elm. n. sp. 



A small and erect tree; stem terete, 10 cm. tbick, 7 

 m. high, divaricately branched from below the middle; wood 

 dingy white, maple grained, light, rather soft, odorless and 

 without taste; bark brown, smooth, relatively thick; twigs 

 slender, very lax, puberulent or the older portion glabrous. 

 Leaves ample, alternating, entire, horizontally spreading or 

 descending, flat, thinly coriaceous, glabrous except the midrib 

 and larger nerves beneath, the sletuler acuminate or sub- 

 caudate apex recurved, obtusely rounded at base, the smaller 

 one broadly lanceolate, the larger oblong and 14 cm. long 

 by 4 cm. wide across the middle, curing brownish; midrib 

 very sparingly strigose and rather bold beneath, the 6 to 

 9 lateral pairs ascendingly curved especially towaxd their 

 tips and likewise conspicuous; petiole 5 mm. long or less, 

 puberulent but soon wearing glabrous; reticulations fine yet 

 quite conspicuous beneath at least. Flower suhpendant, 

 odorless, usually single but occasionally in pairs, quite rigid. 



