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white strigose along the edges especiaDy toward the stigmas. 



Type specimen number 12852, A. D, E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Palgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 



Discovered in sand gravelly soil of secondary forests upon 

 the banks of the Balsahan river at 250 feet altitude. Dedi- 

 cated to Lieut. Bert E. Nicherson in remembrance of his 

 kind favors shown me while I was at Brooks Point. 



Polyalthia mindanaensis Elm. n. sp. 



Tree of a small stature;- stem 10 m. high, 2 dm. thick, 

 with main branches arising from above the middle; bark 

 smooth, brown, mottled on the banches; wood soft, the thin 

 sapwood whitish, otherwise yellowish, without odor or taste; 

 branchlets divaricately spreading and freely rebranched; twigs 

 furrowed, coarsely brown lenticelled, the young tips densely 

 puberulent. Leaves glabrous at least when old, 3 to 4 dm. 

 long, 10 to 13 cm. wide, oblong, apex obtuse, base broadly 

 rounded or truncately so, the entire margins minutely in- 

 volute when dry, horizontal, fiat, chartaceous, deep grt-en 

 and lucid above, much paler beneath, few, alternatingly 

 scattered toward the ends of the branclets, unibrinus in the 

 dry state; midrib very stout and subglabrous beneath, nearly 

 flat above; lateral nerves 20 to 25 pairs, also conspicuous, 

 ascending, their tips ascendingly curved but scarcely united, 

 reticulations fine and more evident from beneath; petiole 1 

 cm. long, very thick, glabrate at least the old ones or the 

 upper flattened portion densely puberulent. Flower upon 2.5 

 era. long thick pedicel, axillary or lateral, solitary; calyx 

 thick, united at the base in a short cup, the 3 segments 

 broadly obtuse, 1.5 cm. wide at the base, 1 cm. high, dense- 

 ly canescent, glabrous on the upper surface, subpersistent; 

 petals more or less erect, subequal; the outer 3 bluntly 

 oblong, 3.5 mm. long, 1.75 mm. wide aero s the middle, 

 yellowish tomentose except the middle and basal upper por- 

 tion; the inner 3 lobes a trifle shorter and narrower, felt- 

 like on the outer side, only sparsely so on the ventral side 

 especially toward the base; receptacle short conical, finely hairy; 

 anthers 3.5 mm. long, compressed, the connective brown in the 

 dry state and broadly crusted at the apex, the anther sacs wide 



