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or roundly obtuse at apex, quite broad from tbe base, pu- 

 berulent ou both sides, imbricately overlapping; receptacle flat 

 and glabrous; stamens many, imbricate, the outer series 

 sterile; the connective very broad from the base, 2.5 mm. 

 long, the apical 1 mm. ovately pointed; anther cells along 

 the edge from the base up to 1.5 mm. long, lighter yellow> 

 relatively narrow; pistil 2.5 mm. long, linear, angularly 

 compressed, grouped in the center of the receptacle, stellately 

 pubescent and finely glandular, the somewhat rugosely lobed 

 stigmatie portion glabrous. 



Type specimen number 13274, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 barau (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, -Tuly, 

 1912. 



This is not as rank and as tall a liana-like climber 

 as my number 13273 which is true V. scandens C. B. Rob. 

 Both of these numbers were collected in the same place 

 along a wooded ridged at 1000 feet altitude. The smaller 

 flowers and the subverrucose under leaf surface at once 

 distinguish our plant from Robimon^s species. 



Uvaria nudistellata Elm. n. sp. 



A middle sized tree climber; stem bendable, subterete, 

 looping, 7.5 cm. thick, repeatedly branched toward the top; 

 wood porous, odorless and tasteless or sweetish, dingy white, 

 gradually turning reddish upon exposure, divided into several 

 radial sections; bark thick, obscurely rugose, dirty brown 

 or blackish, testaceus otherwise; branches long, repeatedly 

 rebranched, tough, sprawling and forming interlaced masses, 

 the free and glabrous ends pendant. Leaves also pendant, 

 chartaceous, deep lucid green on the upper shallowly folded 

 surface, apex obtuse or bluntly acute, the entire margins 

 wavy and slightly recurved in the dry state, the young 

 foliage much lighter green and more or less scurfy beneath, 

 base obtusely rounded, curing dull green on both sides, 

 subelliptic or oblong, the larger lamina 15 cm. long and 

 5.5 cm. wide across the middle or much smaller, alterna- 

 tingly scattered; midrib ridged beneath, deeply grooved on 

 the upper side, glabrous; lateral nerves 8 to 11 pairs, 

 oblique, much less conspicuous and similar from both sides, 



