AiGusT 18, 1913] Four Score of New PLANTa 1759 



ciliate; style glabrous, carnosus, 2 mm. long, terminated by 

 the slightly thickened stigmas. ^ 



Type specimen number 13190, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Collected in the low ligneous vegetation upon the summit 

 of the mountain after which it is named. 



Its general aspect is quite different frotn all other Phil- 

 ippine Glethras. Distributed under C. obovatlfolia but that 

 name is already occupied , in a manuscript. 



COMBRETACEAE 

 Terminalia copdandi Elm. n. sp. 



Large trees; trunk 1 m. thick, round, toward 20 m. high; 

 wood moderately tough and hard, light, sapwood whitish, 

 otherwise brownish red, odorless and tasteless; bark rather 

 thick and gray, otherwise reddish; branches chiefly at the top, 

 freely and crookedly rebranched; twigs suberect, terete, that 

 portion beneath the foliage thickened and oWscurely nodulose, 

 1.5 to 2 cm. thick. Flowers ascending, nearly flat, subcoriaceous, 

 the terminal among ones tinged with red and their edges 

 curvingly folded upon the upper side, usually in seasoTial 

 whorls, sublucid above, paler green on the nether side, cur- 

 ing unequally brown on the sides, entire, cuneately obovate, 

 very unequal in size, beneath only sparingly puberulent, apex 

 broadly truncately rounded, base slightly pandurifortn, 2 to 

 3 dm, long by 8 to 10 cm. wide toward the apex, the 

 smaller ones 5 cm. long; midrib stout and distinctly edged 

 beneath, much darker brown in the dry state, flat on the 

 upper surface; lateral nerves about 20 pairs, ascending, paral- 

 lel, relatively prominent beneath, only their ends much 

 curved and anastomosing, cross and double cross bars or 

 reticulations quite evident from beneath; petiole 5 mm. long 

 and nearly as thick. Inflorescent spikes arising in a sub- 

 whorl between the leaves, ascending or curvingly subpendant, 

 1 to 3 dm. long; rachis slender, flower bearing to within 

 a few cm. from the base, short puberulent, yellowish green 

 when fresh, drying yellowish brown; pedicels similar in color 

 and vestiture, solitary and scattered, occasionally in pairs. 



