.IrLY 10, 1913] ^1=^" Anonaceak 1^-^' 



tips ascendingly arched but scarcely united, reticulations 

 obscure; petiole at least 5 mm. long, glabrous, rather thick, 

 blackish brown. Buds ovoidly globose, roughened with groups 

 of olivaceus hairs or bristles; flower solitary, terminal, 

 pendant, odorless, 7 cm. across; stout pedicels less than 1 

 cm. long, severally bracteated toward the base; bracts acumi- 

 nata*, 5 mm. long, similarly dark brown pubescent; calyx 

 entirely covering the buds, 1.5 cm. long, when young sluirt 

 fuligineus stellate pubescent, ultimately becoming nearly 

 glabrate, bursting open into irregular parts nearly to the 

 base, the upper side glabrate except toward the entire mar- 

 gins; petals 8, rotately spreading, imbricate, free, subequal, 

 the larger ones 2.5 cm. long by nearly as wide above the 

 middle, obovate, thick, the apical portion somewhat thinner 

 and inwardly curved, fuligineously puberulent, ultimately 

 glabrate, between ruber and purpureus in color; stamens 

 indefinite, sessile, cuneate, the linear anther sacs along the 

 edges, somewhat compressed, connective very thick, at the 

 apex inwardly curved, 2.5 mm, long, melleus, forming the 

 basal rounded mass; stigmatic portion ochraceus, forming 

 the upper portion of the rounded central n)ass, a trifle 

 longer than the anthers, rugose by many circular divisions; 

 the styles contiguous, short but densely pubescent. 



Type specimen number 13015, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 



Rooted in red ground with a gravelly subsoil along a 

 densely wooded creek bank at 750 feet altitude. 



Possibly Uvaria and quite similar to U. stellata Merr. 

 based upon my number 6321 from middle Luzon. 



Uvaria sibuyanensis Elm. n. sp. 



Erect shrub; stem 75 cm. thick, 5 m. high, branched 

 from below the middle; wood soft, dirty white, tasteless 

 with a distinct peppery odor, coarsely grained, sappy white; 

 bark relatively thick, yellowish gray, dull brown beneath 

 the epidermis; branches sparingly rebranched, widely spread- 

 ing, the glabrous green tips suberect. Leaves aiternatingly 

 scattered, fiat, horizontally spreading, coriaceous, very dark 

 velvety green above, much paler or yellowish green beneath 



