July 19, 19131 ^'EW Anonaceae l74o 



Type specimen number 13880, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 tember, 1912. 



Collected in wet stony ground along banks of the Ca- 

 tangan creek at 1000 feet altitude, among den.^ely jungled 

 woods. The Manobos called it "Dumagatan." 



Related to Uvaria concava T. and B. and unquestionably 

 it is the same species as my number 7365 from Palo, Leyte, 

 collected over six years ago. My Leyte plant was originally 

 distributed as Unona ebracteolata Presl. 



UVARIA LINN. 



Uvaria subverrucosa Elm. n. sp. 



A low liana-like climber; stem nearly 2 cm, thick, 

 rather rigid yet bendable, terete; wood whitish, with a brown 

 pith; bark smooth, dull dirty brown; twigs tough, brown, 

 the young portion or tips very finely stellate puberulent, 

 terete. Leaves alternatingly scattered along the crooked branch- 

 lets, harsh and verrucose especially beneath, drying une- 

 qually brown, oblong or subelliptic, entire, the abrupt 

 sharply acute to acuminate apex recurved, obtusely rounded 

 at base, diverse in size, the average ones 15 cm. long and 

 6 cm. wide across the base, the bud bracts isabellinus, 

 densely stellate; petiole similar in vestiture, relatively thick, 

 less than 5 mm, in length; midrib scaberulous especially 

 along the bold nether side; the 7 to 9 lateral nerves strongly 

 curved ascendingly especially toward their obscurely united 

 ends, also conspicuous and subverrucose beneath, reticulations 

 coarse and obscure. Flower odorless, subaxillary, in small 

 clusters, green except the yellowish petals and creamy white 

 anthers and darker or duller yellowish brown stigmas; 

 pedicel unequal in length, averaging 5 mm. long, densely 

 isabellinus tomentose, arising from a short common also 

 stellately tomentose stalk, bracteated at about the middle; 

 buds globose; calyx spreading, rigid, united except the 

 broadly obtuse apical portion, puberulent or pubescent en 

 the exterior, persistent, nearly 2 mm. long and as wide; 

 petals 6 or occasionally 7, rigidly coriaceous, obovately elliptic, 

 5.5 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide just above the middle, rounded 



