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hairless; stamens numerous, deciduous imbricate, a trifle 

 longer than 1 mm., 0.75 ram. across the thickened truncate 

 apex, the connective compressed and gradually narrowed 

 toward the base, anther cells much lighter in color and lat- 

 eral; pistils centrally grouped, fewer in number; the ovary 

 part cylindric and obscurely striate, finely hairy, 1 mm. 

 long; stigmatic portion subclavate, very dark brown, about 

 as long. Young fruits ellipsoid, upon slender stipes, ultimate- 

 ly entirely glabrous. 



Type specimen number 3654, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ust, 1912. 



Collected in dry sand gravelly soil upon wooded banks of 

 the Catangan creek at 500 feet altitude. "Lanotan" in Manobo. 



Unona leytensis Elm. n. sp. 



A scandent and sprwaling shrub; stem or main branches 

 2 cm. thick, terete, flexible or at least bendable, ultimately 

 repeatedly branched; wood white, not hard but tough, pith 

 brown, covered with smooth and brown bark; twigs tough, 

 green, horizontal or drooping, the glabrous young portion 

 turning black while drying. Leaves chartaceous, similarly 

 spreading, lucid and shallowly conduplicate on the upper 

 surface, paler and duller beneath, recurved toward the slen- 

 derly acuminate apex, the entire margins rugosely wavy gla- 

 brous, widely scattering alternatingly, draying dull green on 

 both sides, oblong, base obtusely rounded, 2 to 2.5 dm. or 

 much less in length, 6 to 8 cm. wide across the middle 

 or a trifle above it, edges subinvolute in the dry state. In- 

 frutescence hanging upon 8 cm. long green terminal stalks; re- 

 ceptacles flattish globose, green, 2.5 to 4 cm. across, hair- 

 less; pedicels slender, also green, terete, curved and spread- 

 ing in all directions from the receptacle, curing black, un- 

 equal in length, the longer ones 2 dm., glabrous and smooth; 

 fruits also green, subglobose or more elongated aud ellipsoid 

 in general, diverse in size and shape, the larger ones rugose- 

 ly constricted transversely, 1 to 2 cm. wide or long, surface 

 when dry black and minutely roughened, with 1 to 3 

 transverse seeds. 



