July 19, 1013] New Anonaceae 1Y35 



and along the lateral edges; fruits short ellipsoid, apex rounded, 

 at least 2.5 cm. long, hard, in the the younger state covered with 

 a dense dull brown felt-like puberulence, ultimately hard and glab- 

 rate, upon a stout 7.5 mm. long pedicel, the torus 1.5 cm. across. 



Type specimen number 11642, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 

 (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 



In fertile moist humus covered soil of dense forests at 

 4000 feet altitude. "Poogan" is the Bagobo name. 



This species is only critically distinguished from P. klemmei 

 Elm. and indeed both of them may be interpreted as mere varie- 

 ties or even forms of P. nkkersonii Elm. 



Polyalthia klemmei Elm. n. sp. 



Small erect tree; stem 1.5 dm. thick, 7 m. high, te- 

 rete; its main branches from below the middle, divaricate, 

 freely rebranched, the ultimate ones slender and lax; wood 

 moderately soft, odorless and tasteless, yellow except the 

 thin sapwood, grained somewhat like maple wood; bark smooth, 

 brown and gray mottled; the young twigs sparsely pubescent. 

 Leaves alternatingly scattered toward the ends of the branch- 

 lets, chartaceous, horizontally spreading, flat, much paler 

 green beneath, glabrous except the nerves beneath, apex ob- 

 tuse, truncately rounded, oblong, entire, 2 to 3 dm. long 

 by 1 dm. wide, the 2 sides drying slightly unequally brown; 

 midrib stout and strongly ridged beneath, also hairy^ 

 becoming glabrate, the upper flat side at first also covered 

 with a dense tomentum; nerves about 20 pairs, yellowish, 

 ascending, comparatively conspicuous, tips ascendingly curved 

 but scarcely united, also hairy when young, cross bars fine 

 but very obscure; petiole ascendingly curved, yellowish brown, 

 finely pubescent, thick, the upper side flattened; buds cov- 

 ered with a dense fuligineus tomentum. Flowers fragrant, 

 pendant, solitary and mostly from the lower leaf axils, 

 upon short thick canescently br^cteate stalks; calyx green, 

 thick, united below the middle into a broad base; its 3 

 segments broadly ovate, almost 1.5 cm. broad at the base 

 and 1 cm. high, puberulent on the outside, otherwise gla- 

 brous, apex obtusely rounded, spreading; petals also thick, 

 creamy white, subequal, 4 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, rounded 



