^'^2 Leaflets of Philippine Botany [Vol. V, Art. 92 



normal ones 1 dm. long, 4 cm. wide across the middle, 

 margins entire, strongly curved upon the lower side in the 

 upper side even in the dry state, nervosely wrinkled on 

 both surfaces; mid vein deeply grooved along the upper side, 

 stoutly ridged beneath; lateral nerves 7 to 9 pairs, similarly 

 ridged beneath and sunken above, ascending, their margins 

 more or less united, 5 from the edge, reticulations very coarse 

 and evident from beneath only; petiole short and thick, 

 terete, olivaceous pubescent when young, ultimately glabrate. 

 Flowers odorless, lateral or opposite the leaves, pendulous, 

 usually solitary; pedicel terete, 1 cm. long, subtended by 

 minute bracts, brown, finally glabrous, usually inserted upon 

 a short common stalk; calyx composed of 3 persistent lobes, 

 thick, spreading, united at the base, very sparsely hairy es- 

 pecially along the edges, ovately triangular, the apex sharply 

 pointed, green; corolla segments thick, glabrous, in 2 very 

 unequal series, deep purpurascent on tne inner sides, the 

 outer median region tinged with green; the outer whorl of 

 3 spreading, suborbicular, the apex broad yet sharply pointed, 

 5 mm. across; the inner series oblong, acute at apex, 1.25 

 cm. long and 5 mm. wide across the middle, erect from 

 the base to the middle, the apical one half recurved, re- 

 ceptacle flattisb and glabrous; anthers numerous, 1.25 mm. 

 long, nearly 1 mm. wide across the flattened crust, connective 

 ridged along the ventral side, pollen sacs on the dorsal side 

 from below the crust nearly to the base; pistils 9, grouped at 

 the apex and extending beyond the stamens; style 1,5 mm. 

 long, obscurely compressed, tapering from thickened base to the 

 apex, adpressed hairy; stigma subglobose or slightly obovoidly 

 angular, 0.75 mm. across, easily becoming detached, finely 

 rugose or papillose. 



Type specimen number 13100, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Only one shrub of this fine species was seen in very damp 

 earth upon a crest of a very densely wooded stream cut at 

 1500 feet altitude. 



As to our other Philippine species it is nearest related to 

 Phaeanthus acuminatus Merr. from Mindoro; it is also quite 

 distinct from Polyalihia dumosa King of Perak. 



