JcLY 19, 1913] New Anonaceae 1731 



short common stalk or peduncle; calyx rigid, more or less 

 united at the base, sparsely ciliate or hairy on the back, 

 otherwise glabrous, broadly ovate, apex sharply pointed, 2.5 

 mm. wide and long, purplish green, outer 3 petals spreading 

 as the 3 calyx lobes, subelliptic, sharply acute to acuminate, 

 5 mm. long by one half as wide across the middle, gla- 

 brous except the edges toward the apex; the inner 3 erect 

 and with the apical portion recurved, oblongish, a few mm. 

 longer, about the same width, the dorsal side finely puberulent, 

 all of the petals pale lividus; receptacle flattened, glabrous; 

 anthers vinosus, 35, dark crusted at the apex, connective 

 ridged along the ventral side and expanded laterally; pollen 

 sacs on the entire dorsal side, 0.75 mm. long; pitils 7, 

 subterete, 1 mm. long, adpressed hairy especially toward the 

 base, apically clustered and exceeding the stamens; stigmas 

 globose, 0.5 mm. in diameter, easily becoming detached, 

 densely brown ciliate, lilacinus; fruits few to severally clus- 

 tered, subglobose, becoming lividus, at most 7.5 mm. in 

 diameter, very short stipitate. 



Type specimen number 13055, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Collected in rich leaf covered soil of slightly wooded 

 flats moi'e or less interspersed with grassy glens at about 

 250 feet altitude. 



Right near to P. pulgarense Elm. of the same general 

 region but flowers much smaller. 



Polyalthia pulgrarense Elm. n. sp. 



Lax shrub; stem 3.5 cm. thick, 3 to 4 m. high, terete, 

 crooked, branched from near the base; wood quite hard and 

 brittle, odorless and tasteless, gradually changing from the 

 stramineus sapwood to the dark melleus center, with con- 

 spicuous radial lines; branches few, slender, lax, horizontal or 

 descending, the twigs dark brown hairy; bark gmoothish, 

 greenish to ater, testaceus beneath the epidermis. Leaves 

 descending, flat, chartaceous, paler green beneath, somewhat 

 recurved toward the sharp acuminate apex, alternatingly scat- 

 tered, oblong or the smallest ones broadly lance shaped, base 

 obtusely rounded, inequilateral and cordately notched, the 



