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Flowers pendulous, axillary or along the branchlets; the 

 short peduncle as well as the pedicels yellowish green and 

 fulvus, the latter slender and 1.5 cm. long, both usually 

 subtended by similarly pubescent bracts or bract vestiges; 

 C:ilyx pubescent, deflexed, of 6 nearly free segments; the 

 longer sepals 7 mm. long, almost 2 mm. wide across the 

 middle, linear or lanceolate, soft in texture, narrowed toward 

 the base, apex obtuse, the other 3 oblongish and a few 

 mm. long, deciduous; petals 3, caducous, their median line 

 solidly purple, ovately oblong, 3 cm. long by 1.5 cm. wide 

 below the middle, more or less clawed at the base, short 

 olivacfcua pubescent especially along the margins and blunt 

 apex; receptacle ellipsoid, hairy; anthers about 25, loosely 

 scattered about the lower one half, sessile, 1 mm. long, 

 strongly curved ventrally or on the brown connective side, 

 the anther sacs on the dorsal side are light yellow, the 

 apical connective crust yellow; pistils numerous in an apical 

 subglobose mass; styles 1.5 mm. long, somewhat compressed, 

 tapering to both ends, pubescent, the subcapitate stigma 

 also hairy. 



Type specimen number 12677, A. D. E. Elmer, Brooks 

 Point (Addison Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 



Only one tree was seen in dry soil of mixed forests 

 on the trail leading out of Brooks Point to the north. 

 "Ubaran" is the Tagbaiiua name. 



Of this genus four species are known in eastern Asia, 

 one in Australia and S. longipes Vid. in our archipelago. 



UNONA Linn. 



Unona miniata Elm. n. sp. 



Erect undershrub; stem 3 to 5 cm. thick, 1 to 2 m. 

 high or long, terete, usually branched from near the base; 

 branches unbranched, spreading, tough; wood also tough, dry, 

 whitish, without odor or taste; bark dark brown, smooth, 

 easily peeling; twigs terete, the young tips fuligineus and 

 finely puberulent, the old bark strongly crinkled in the dry 

 state. Leaves alternate or more or less scattered in sub- 

 whorls, flat, horizontally spreading, subcharlaceous, much 

 deeper and lucid green above, glabrous, 3 dm. long by 8 



