Jiii.Y 19, 1913] New Anonaceae 1739 



the inner 3 curved upon the dorsal side; receptacle raised, 

 the stamineal region smooth, the truncate portion pistillate; 

 anthers 2 mm. long, 0,5 mm. wide, slenderly tapering from 

 base to the much thickened nearly black flattened distal 

 end, imbricate, the lighter colored anther cells very narrow; 

 pistil 1.5 mm. long, densely hairy except the flattish nearly 

 black and glabrous stigma. Receptacle of fruits 6 mm. 

 thick, nearly glabrous; fruits purplish brown, 1 to 1.5 cm. 

 .icross, ellipsoid or subglobose, hard, smooth, upon slender 

 3 cm. long glabrous pedicels. 



Type specimen number 13931, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 tember, 1912. 



Discovered upon a densely wooded ridge of Duros peak 

 at 3500 feet altitude. 



Flowers entirely too large to be classed with P. rom- 

 blonensis Elm. 



SACCOPETALUM Benn. 

 Saccopetalum arboreum Elm. n. sp. 



Medium sized tree; stem straight or somewhat crooked, 

 wadded toward the base, nearly 5 dm. through, 12 m. high 

 or higher, branched above the middle; wood moderately 

 hard, maple grained, beautifully splitting, yellow except the 

 thin whitish sapwood, odorless and tasteless; bark very dull 

 brown, scaling in thin plates, yellowish except the epider- 

 mis; branches few, the numerous short branchlets widely 

 spreading, the fine twigs densely fulvus pubescent. Leaves 

 pale green and more or less puberulent on both sides when 

 young, glabrous when old and chartaceous, very lucid on the 

 upper nearly flat side, turning brown when dry, ovately 

 oblong or oblongish to subelliptic, when dry subinvolute 

 along the entire margin, 1 dm. long, one half as wide, 

 apex bluntly obtuse, base rounded and emarginate or sub- 

 cordate; midvein quite prominent, glabrous on both sides; 

 lateral nerves about 7 pairs, divaricate and with ascendingly 

 curved tips which are scarcely united, also conspicuous be- 

 neath, reticulations coarse and evident from both sides; pet- 

 iole very short, hairy when young, ultimately glabrate. 



