Jur.y 19, 1913) New Anonackab 1729 



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

 September, 1912. 



In well drained rather stony soil of a densely wooded 

 depression at 3500 feet altitude, between the peaks of Duros 

 and Cawilanan. "Dagaua" is the Manobo name. 



Not certain as to the genus and may belong to Unona 

 Linn. 



POLYALTHIA Blm. 



Polyalthla romblonensis Elm. n. sp. 



A subscandent shrub; stem 5 cm. thick, repeatedly 

 branched; branchlets lax, slender, somevrhat drooping, tough, 

 brown lenticelled, the young tips strigosely brown; wood 

 odorless and tasteless, white, moderately hard and heavy, 

 with conspicuous radial lines; bark very dark brown, roughened 

 with minute lenticels. Leaves descending, chartaceous, nearly 

 flat, much, lighther green beneath, glabrous, lucid above 

 even in the dry state, curing equally gray on both sides, 

 apex gradually acute to acuminate, ba!*e rounded, entire, 

 linearly oblong or broadly lanceolate, alternatingly scattered 

 along the ultimate branches, the larger ones 1.5 dm. long, 

 nearly 4 cm. wide at or a trifle below the middle, frequently 

 smaller; midvein conspicuous beneath, faintly grooved on the 

 upper surface; lateral nerves relatively obscure, 7 to 12 pri- 

 mary pairs, oblique, their ends united 3 to 5 mm. below 

 the edge, reticulations equally visible from both sides; petiole 

 thick, short, blackish brown, usually covered with some sim- 

 ilarly colored hairs. Flowers usually leaf opposed, pendulous; 

 pedicels very slender, glabrous or nearly so, brown, slightly 

 thickened toward the thickened end, 3 cm. long, solitary 

 or few clustered from short bracteate tubercles; calyx 3 mm. 

 high, 4 mm. wide across the base, united about the base, 

 broadly ovate, apex rather sharp, slightly pubescent and pa- 

 pillose, spreading; petals 6, similar, united at the base, one 

 series a trifle shorter and ovately oblong rather than truly 

 oblong, similarly roughened and strigose, the longer ones 1 

 cm. long by 4 mm. wide; torus subglabrous; anthers indefinite, 

 flattened, 1.5 mm. long, the connective expanded into a 

 smooth dark brown disk, the pollen sacs pale yellow and 



