1^^6 Leaflets of Philippine Botany [Vol, V, Akt. 93 



ish gray, elliptically elongated, obtusely rounded at base, 

 broadly rounded at apex and terminated by an obscure point, 

 entire, 2 to 2.5 dm. long by 9 cm. wide a trifle above 

 the middle, alternately crowded or more scatering; mid vein 

 very stout beneath and narrowly caniculate on the upper 

 side; the 7 to 9 lateral pairs equally plain on both sides, 

 ascending, the upper ones much curved, all more or less 

 united with their tips, reticulations more evident from the 

 upper side than from the lower; petiole averaging 1.5 cm. 

 Jong, dark brown when dry, subterete especially toward the 

 base, glabrous, with a pair of blunt spines at their basal 

 sides. Inflorescence divaricate or pendant, occasionally termi- 

 nal but usually lateral, paniculately branched, 3 to 5 dm. 

 long, glabrous and pale green, the peduncle subtended by 

 a pair of rather sharp and somewhat recurved spines; branch- 

 lets very seldom rebranched, compressed and fluted especially 

 toward the distal ends, long, bearing at the end few to 

 several flowers; pedicels ascendingly curved, also compressed 

 and fluted on the sides, glabrous, 2 cm. long, gradually 

 thickened toward the much enlarged distal end; sepals 4, 

 glabrous, at least 1.25 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, broadly ellip- 

 tic, margins subhyaline, coriaceous, the outer 2 deeply concavo- 

 convex, pulverulent on both sides, the inner ones nearly 

 flat; petals deciduous, cremeus, also free and of an equal 

 number, glabrous, imbricate and slightly inequilateral, obo- 

 vately oblong, much thinner in texture, margins irregularly 

 short fimbriate, as long as the sepals and nearly as wide 

 above the middle; stamens also deciduous, numerous and 

 strongly interlaced; filaments cremeus, 2.5 cm. long or longer, 

 thread-like, glabrous, curvingly crooked; anther 0.75 mm. 

 wide toward the base, 2 mm. long, narrowly oblong, truncately 

 rounded at apex, base broadly so, attached to the finely 

 pointed filaments on the back a trifle above the base; style 

 yellow but incarnatus at the base, 4 cm. long, also glabrous, 

 terete, much thicker than the filaments, subpersistent, bearing 

 a relatively thick clavate . green stigmasl 



Type specimen number 12720, A. D. E. Elmer, Brooks 

 Point (Addison Peak), Palawan, March, 1911. 



Discovered this coarse Capparis in gravelly soil of a dry 

 wooded flat near the seacoast. Named in honor of the late 



