JcLY 19, 1913] New Anonaceab 1727 



Our longer flowers distinguish it from 0. paucinervia 

 Merr. Its closest affinity, however, is with my 0. urdanetensis 

 and from which it can be distinguished by its auriculately 

 rounded leaf bases and by our young fruits not being so 

 distinctly pointed; veins and nerves more pubescent beneath 

 in our present species. 



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Oxymitra urdanetensis Elm. n. sp. 



A wiry and scandent shrub; stem 2 cm. thick, crooked, 

 looped occasionally, tough, branched toward the top and from- 

 ing tangled masses; wood dingy white, odorless and tasteless; 

 bark relatively tliick, testaceus except the dark blackish 

 brown smooth epidermis; main branches horizontal or drooping 

 when free, crooked, rebranched, only young tips sparsely stri- 

 gose. Leaves many, alternating along the branchlets, similarly 

 spreading, the acute to acuminate apex recurved, shallowly 

 folded upon the upper relatively dark green surface, sub- 

 glaucous, beneath glabrous except the rufus very young opes, 

 oblong or broadly lanceolate, rounded at the base, entire, 

 the average ones 1 dm. long by 3 cm. wide, frequently much 

 smaller; midrib stout, glabrous and yellowish from beneath, 

 grooved above; lateral nerves 5 to 7 pairs, very oblique, tips 

 becoming obsolete, prominent beneath and depressed on the 

 upper surface, cross bars very closely set and similarly evi- 

 dent from both sides; petiole less than 5 mm. long, hairy 

 in the groove along the upper side, otherwise glabrous at 

 least when old. Infrutescence usually leaf opposed, upon a 

 stout divaricate 1 cm. long more or less fulvus hairy or 

 subglabrous peduncle; receptacle subglobose, 4 mm. thick, 

 densely short hairy between the scars; larger fruits 2.5 cm. 

 long, the basal one half stipitate, the 1 cm. long and 5 

 mm. thick ellipsoid fruits with a stout and relatively lohg 

 apex, all parts similarly short fulvus pubescent but appar- 

 ently upon maturity becoming glabrous. 



Type specimen number 13946, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 tember, 1912. 



Discovered this scandent shrub upon a small tree on 

 a damp forested mountain slope of red soil at 4000 feet al- 



