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the 2 sides curing unequally brown, glabrous, the entire 

 margins subinvolute at least in the dry state, obovately oblong 

 or the smaller ones subelliptic, apex abruptly terminated into 

 a blunt acute point, base roundly obtuse, 3 dm. long by 

 12.5 cm. wide a trifle above the middle; midrib prominently 

 raised beneath, deeply grooved along the upper surface; lat- 

 eral nerves not prominent, with about 15 lateral pairs, usually 

 with secondary nerves extending from the midrib toward 

 the margin, divaricate, tips usually forked and irregularly 

 united, reticulations very coarse; petiole very stout, glabrous, 

 dark green, 1.5 cm. long, deeply channelled along the upper 

 .side. Infrutescence lateral or leaf opposed, glabrous; stalk 

 stout, deep green, 2.5 cm. long; torus 1 cm. across; fruit 

 short stipitate, fusiformly ellipsoid, pale cherry red. 



Type specimen number 12322, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes 

 (Mt. Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Sibuyan, April, 1910. 



Collected in moist stony ground of woods along the 

 Sinuban creek at 1000 feet altitude. The local Visayan 

 called it "Lanitos." 



Uvaria cardinales Elm. n. sp. 



A scandent and sprawling shrub; branchlets terete, finely 

 wrinkled in the dry state, glabrous or only the young tips 

 brown hairy. Leaves alternate, chartaceous, varying from 1 

 to 2 dm long, the average ones 8 cm. across the middle, 

 entire, at the apex rounded or abruptly terminating into an 

 obtuse or acute point; base cordately rounded, glabrous on 

 the shining upper surface, somewhat hairy beneath but soon 

 glabrate except the raidvein, the small blades elliptic, the 

 larger ones more oblong; midrib pronounced beneath, at 

 first olivaceus hairy on the nether side, finally becoming 

 glabrate and appearing as finely papillate, grooved along the 

 upper side especially toward the base; lateral pairs 9 to 11 

 or even 13, ascendingly curved, tips strongly so but scarcely 

 united, quite conspicuous beneath, reticulations also evident 

 from the under side. Flowers mostly solitary, leaf opposed 

 or either above or below the leaf; calyx saucer shaped and 

 united toward the base, finely stellate pubescent on the out- 

 side, glabrate on the inner, rotately spreading, the 3 seg- 



