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terminal one 3 time.s as long, thickened portion finely rugose 

 (lark brown, subglabrous, midrib conspicuous beneath and 

 deep reddidh brown, impressed above; the 6 to 9 lateral 

 nerves oblique, faint, tips ascending and usually archingly 

 united, reticulations obscure. Young infrutescence terminal, 

 suberect, 1.5 to 2 dm. long, paniculately branched from the 

 base, short latericius tomentose in the early state, when old 

 puberulent, the ultimate branches rather numerously short 

 rebranched; pedicel thick, subvelutinous, 1 to 2 mm. long, 

 articulate at the middle, subtended by blunt similarly hairy 

 caducous bracts; sepals erect, rigid, 2 mm. long by 1 mm. 

 wide at the base, triangularly acute, finely tomentose on the 

 outside, valvate in the bud state; petals 5, erect, about 8 

 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, ligulate, puberulent on the outer 

 side, apex roundly truncate or notched, occasionally gland 

 punctate above the middle, the sides usually rolled upon the 

 ventral surface; fertile stamens 5, also erect, alternating with 

 an equal number of sterile ones; filaments of the fertile one 

 2 mm. long, subglabrous, equally thick throughout, those of 

 the sterile ones setiform, about one third as long only, all 

 united at the base into a glabrous rim about the basal 

 portion of the ovary; anther basifixed, 0.5 mm. long, horse- 

 shoe shaped; ovary large, densely pubescent, ellipsoid, 2.5 

 mm. long; style a trifle shorter, pubescent toward the base, 

 terminated at the apex by an expanded irregularly lobulate 

 stigma. Fruit elouTated, 2.5 cm. in length. 



Type specimen number 12771, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princess (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 



Discovt^red in densely wooded alluvifcl soil near the Iwahig 

 river at 500 feet above sea level. 



Between C mindanaensis Merr. and C. neurocalyx Planch. 

 yet specifically distinct from either. 



Connarus balsahanensis Elm. n. sp. 



A slender and erect undershrub; stem 2 to 3 cm. thick, 

 crooked, 3 to 4 m, high; branches few from above the mid- 

 dle, glender, recurved or nearly straight, the young tips mi' 

 nutely puberulent, the branchlels densely lenticelled; wood 

 tough, odorless, tasteless, white and with reddish streaks; bark 



